Askren Photograph Collection

Title: Muehlebach Hotel
Description: View looking into the Presidential Suite at the Muehlebach Hotel with Presidential Seal on carpet and chair.
Date: 1979
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Coates House Hotel
Description: Photograph features the Coates House Hotel building, looking southeast, at the corner of 10th Street and Broadway Boulevard. To the east on 10th Street, the Kansas City Custom Garment Co. building is also visible. As of 2010, the building houses the sales offices of Quality Hill Condos, with apartment dwellings on the upper levels.
Date: 1964-07-21
Object Type: Negative

Title: LaSalle Hotel
Description: Street level view of the LaSalle Hotel located at 920-22 E. Linwood Boulevard. View is looking east on Linwood.
Date: 1930~
Object Type: Negative

Title: Bellerive Hotel
Description: Full, street level view of the Bellerive Hotel located at 214 E. Armour Boulevard on the northeast corner of Armour and Warrick boulevards.
Date: 1930~
Object Type: Negative

Title: Pickwick Hotel
Description: View looking toward the northeast of the Pickwick Hotel located on the east side of McGee Street between 9th and 10th streets in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. The Union Bus Terminal sign is also visible on the building.
Date: 1930~
Object Type: Negative

Title: The Junction
Description: Street level view of the downtown Kansas City area known as the Junction located on 9th Street between Main and Delaware streets. View includes the Kay Hotel which was built in 1916 and razed in 1954. It originally was called the Westgate Hotel.
Date: 1940~
Object Type: Negative

Title: Hotel Commonwealth
Description: Full, street level view of the Hotel Commonwealth located at 1216 Broadway Boulevard in Kansas City, Missouri. View includes entrance to the hotel's Blue Grass Room. The Humphrey Hotel is located to the right at 1210 Broadway Boulevard.
Date: 1940~
Object Type: Negative

Title: Robert E. Lee Hotel
Description: Street level view of the Robert E. Lee Hotel located at 13th and Wyandotte streets in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. The hotel's Southern Room sign is visible on the window next to the entrance.
Date: 1945~
Object Type: Negative

Title: Victoria Hotel
Description: Far end of the Victoria Hotel at the northeast corner of 9th and McGee streets showing K & P Cleaners as a tenant in the building. Floor plan of basement storage areas is on same sheet.
Date: 1920~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Windsor Manor Apartment Hotel
Description: Street level view of the Windsor Manor Apartment Hotel, located at 409-411 Armour Boulevard. No print image, negative and digital only.
Date: 1953-07
Object Type: Negative

Title: Hyde Park Hotel
Description: Hyde Park Hotel, 336 W. 36th Street, was built in 1925 and later known as the Hyde Park Family Hotel. Pusateri's Restaurant in the hotel had an address of 3561 Broadway Boulevard.
Date: 1947~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Food Line at the Muehlebach Hotel
Description: Convention attendees in food line at the Muehlebach Hotel during the 1976 Republican National Convention. Pictured in the foreground, reaching for a drink, is newspaper columnist James J. Kilpatrick
Date: 1976
Object Type: Photograph