D.I.Y. Venue Kansas House To Be Demolished

Posted by Aaron Leitko on Oct. 9, 2009 at 1:15 pm

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For more than a decade Kansas House has been on of the D.C. area’s most beloved D.I.Y. show spaces, hosting performances by bands like The Rapture, Q and Not U, Black Eyes, Love of Diagrams, Dismemberment Plan, and Golden, to name just a few. But in just 60 days the tiny corner house, located on 900 N Kansas St. in Arlington, will go silent forever.

“My house (Kansas House) just got sold and will eventually be destroyed,” wrote Collin Crowe, a tenant and a member of the band Buildings, in an e-mail announcing the end of the house’s existence. “We got a 60 days heads-up that we gotta move out by December 1.”

The property is reportedly in the process of being sold to a Virginia based development company.

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Comments

Justin Moyer October 12th, 2009
12:12 pm

#1

This blows. Can some other institutions start dying around here? I don’t think enough have died already.
Matthew Borlik October 13th, 2009
12:08 pm

#2

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Jacqui Burger October 13th, 2009
3:08 pm

#3

They say that all good things must come to an end, but this is especially disappointing.
jason hamacher October 13th, 2009
7:50 pm

#4

this is horrible. maybe we can start doing shows at a Potbelly in Arlington?
cole October 14th, 2009
11:36 am

#5

we should just start doing shows at your house, Jason!
Glen Steven Colen October 14th, 2009
11:38 am

#6

…I hear Hamacher has a new deck!
Vin October 15th, 2009
11:34 am

#7

Damn. The PnR Salons were great there, too. I actually thought this would have happened sooner.
Todd McCarty October 20th, 2009
11:35 am

#8

Awwh Shit! 900 Kansas St. we will miss you.