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KCQ on one of Kansas City s best kept secrets: a Waldorf of homes for unwed mothers
Anna Spoerre and Michael Wells, The Kansas City Star
Feb. 19 To this day, it s one of Kansas City s best kept secrets: An apartment complex now sits at 2929 Main Street, sprawled out between a school and a hotel, but decades ago the land on Union Hill served as the birthplace of thousands of children born to unwed mothers.
The Willows Maternity Sanitarium is scarcely known, despite its role helping Kansas City gain notoriety as an adoption hub of America through the mid-20th century. It s the subject of the latest What s Your KCQ?, a partnership with the Kansas City Public Library. ....

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