Hotel Moore at 9th and Central is pictured on an old Hall Brothers post card made about 1909. The ornate red brick corner structure, with its bay windows and fancy white painted wood trim, was built in the days when the 9th Street cable car was a major link between the downtown district and the West Bottoms and stockyard area. An old city directory of 1908 shows the proprietors to be John Moore and T. E. Presbury. Presbury's residence is given as the Hotel Moore, but John Moore, from whom the hotel got its name, made his home at the fashionable 928 Paseo apartments, which still stand today. The fine hostelry deteriorated as the city moved south, and was finally razed in March, 1936, to make way for parking facilities. Kansas City Star, August 2, 1975.
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