LocationStarlight Theatre in Swope Park |
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Description
Starlight Theatre is a neighbor to the Kansas City Zoo in Swope Park. Inside the entrance is this fountain and stream which wind along a garden and gazebo. Ten cascades run between eleven red brick columns. The pool below has over two dozen vertical jets in descending heights as it fades from view. The columns stand 20 feet tall and entire fountain in 180 ft. in length. Owner of Helzberg’s Jewelers, Barnett and Shirley Helzberg, donated $1 million toward creating the site. Shirley Bush Helzberg served as the president of the Starlight Theatre Association from 1991 to 1994.
Nearly 200 hundred years after the area’s first fur trading post was settled on the bluffs of the Missouri River, Kansas City is preparing to honor the French pioneer Francois Chouteau who established it, and the Native Americans with whom he traded. Francois Chouteau...
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