Word: kroh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some of the houses in Leawood are more than 40 years old, but the town only began to blossom in the late 1930s when the Kroh Bros, real estate company undertook a major development. Now there are nearly 11,000 residents in just over 3,000 houses-ranch-styles and split-levels with a good sprinkling of two-stories. The lawns are spacious, and there is often a paddock with two or three horses gamboling about. Some of the original houses that once sold for less than $25,000 would probably be worth twice that today; newer houses range from...
...Sale signs on houses, and Leawood brokers can easily avoid showing to someone they consider undesirable. Tom Leathers remembers that a couple of years ago, Bobby Bell, the Kansas City Chiefs' great linebacker, wanted to buy in Leawood. Bell is black. Leathers telephoned a member of the Kroh family and appealed with all the eloquence of a dedicated Chiefs fan: he was told that nothing was up for sale at the time, so Bell went elsewhere...