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July 2005
On a visit to Kansas City, John Burton, the eminent Parker authority and Chuck Haddix, the equally eminent Charlie Parker scholar visited the previously unknown home of the Parker Family. Kindly they took photos of the residence which appear below. Charlie and his mother probably lived here from the time they arrived in Kansas City, Missouri, 1927, until around 1931. Charlie was at Penn School during this time and it was at this house he probably asked for his first saxophone.If anyone knows how to place a building on the historic register, please contact me or Chuck!! 
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Brandon Burton, son of John, (dragged along by his Bird obsessed father!!)
John Burton
Chuck Haddix
Chuck again.
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