

Historic Restoration vs. Flipping and Flopping in Kansas City!
At the frenetic pace in which homes and buildings are being remodeled and sold in Kansas City, its troubling that many of these flips eventually turn into flops. Renovating historic industrial buildings and turning them into condos is a hot trend as pockets of downtown are being sought out by investors for future urban core desiring dwellers. Rejuvenation is essential to cities and vital to their renaissance. And there’s always such excitement walking into a recently renova


Operative Masonry, is it Still Alive?
Guilds are and have always been associations of artisans or merchants who control the practice of their craft in a particular town. The earliest types of guilds were formed as fraternities of tradesmen. When organized, these groups transformed into part professional association, part trade union, part cartel, and part secret society. The Operative Masons | Masonic History by Anthony A. Reyes Most Speculative Free Masons are aware of the fact that a Guild of Operative Free Mas