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Cernech Machine Works is a job machine shop at 1033 Argentine Boulevard in the Argentine neighborhood of Kansas City, Kansas, operated by David Darling under the entity Darling Machine LLC. It carries a Croatian-Slavic family name from Argentine’s rail-and-smelter era, has no website and no press coverage, and was located for the Registry only through the Wyandotte Economic Development Council’s locally-owned business directory.

Description

Cernech Machine Works occupies 1033 Argentine Boulevard, on the main street of Argentine — the Kansas City, Kansas neighborhood built around the Santa Fe’s Argentine Yard and, before it, the silver smelter that gave the district its name. It is a machine shop: the trade of turning, milling, boring and repairing metal parts to order, mostly for other businesses.

It is also, for the Registry’s purposes, an object lesson. Argentine is one of the Wyandotte County neighborhoods the Registry has recorded almost nothing of, and the reason is visible here in full. Cernech has no website, no social presence located, no press coverage, no chamber write-up and no institutional history page. It appears in the Wyandotte Economic Development Council’s locally-owned business directory as four lines — a name, an address, a phone number and a contact — and otherwise only in the automated business-listing aggregators that scrape state and credit records.123 A discovery method built on press coverage cannot find this shop. A directory worked by category can.

The name itself is a piece of the neighborhood’s record. Cernech is a Slavic surname of the sort carried by the Croatian, Slovenian and Serbian families who worked the Argentine smelter and the Santa Fe shops, and the shop’s continuing use of the name under new ownership is the kind of continuity the Registry exists to note. That reading is inference from the name and the neighborhood, not a sourced claim about the founding family. “

Goods and services

  • Job machining — the shop is categorised as a machine shop in every source located12
  • Fabrication and repair work, and the specific machining capabilities of the shop, are not documented anywhere located in this pass “

History

Nothing about the history of Cernech Machine Works was established in this pass. “

What is known: the shop trades under the Cernech Machine Works name at 1033 Argentine Boulevard while its operating entity is Darling Machine LLC, and David Darling is its named contact and, per third-party listings, its owner.12 That configuration — an older shop name carried on by a later owner under his own entity — implies a succession, but no source located records when the Cernech shop was founded, who founded it, when David Darling took it on, or whether he is connected to the founding family.

A Dun & Bradstreet–derived directory record gives 1968 as the founding year of Darling Machine, L.L.C. at this address.3 That figure is unverified, comes from an automated credit-data aggregator, and is likely to describe the Darling entity rather than the Cernech shop. It is recorded here only so that a later pass has something to disprove or confirm.

The Kansas Secretary of State business entity search would resolve both the entity registration date and the earlier Cernech corporate record. It could not be queried in this session — the SOS search endpoint returned HTTP 403 to every request. See the method note below.

Sources

Footnotes

  1. Wyandotte Economic Development Council — locally-owned business directory, Specialized Services category, Cernech Machine Works entry — asserts: Cernech Machine Works at 1033 Argentine Blvd., Kansas City, KS 66105; phone 913-342-0251; named contact David Darling; categorised “Locally Owned Business, LOB Specialized Services”. The entry carries no company description, no website and no founding date. Category index: wyedc.org (Retrieved by curl 2026-08-14.) This is the only first-party-adjacent source for this page. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  2. Yelp — Cernech Machine Works, 1033 Argentine Blvd, Kansas City, Kansas — asserts: business operating at 1033 Argentine Blvd, Kansas City, KS; phone (913) 342-0251; hours Monday–Friday 8:00 AM–4:00 PM, closed Saturday and Sunday; categorised as a machine shop. Companion aggregator records giving the Darling Machine LLC dba and David Darling as owner: Waze — waze.com; Chamber of Commerce directory — chamberofcommerce.com; CMac.ws — machine-shops.cmac.ws. All aggregator sources; none was directly retrievable in this session (Cloudflare 403), all were surfaced via search. Treat hours and the dba as provisional. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  3. Dun & Bradstreet directory record — Darling Machine, L.L.C., Kansas City, KS — asserts: Darling Machine, L.L.C. was founded in 1968 and is located at 1033 Argentine Blvd in Kansas City. Automated credit-data aggregator; returned HTTP 403 to direct retrieval and was surfaced via search. The 1968 figure is recorded as a lead, not as a verified founding year. ↩ ↩2

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On the record — ks.city/registry/cernech-machine-works · record updated 2026-08-14