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Bridger-Chouteau Building
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Description
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Photos, illustrations, and information on the Bridger-Chouteau building at Pennsylvania and Westport Roads, built in the (probably the early) 1850s and possibly the oldest extant building in Westport or Kansas City. Chronology of its ownership by Jim Bridger, Cyprien Chouteau, Albert Boone, et al, and known as Kelly's Westport Inn or Kelly's Bar by the late 20th century.
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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Historic Kansas City Architecture
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Description
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Photo of the Boone's Trading Post building at 500 Westport Road, built around 1853 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Date
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1975
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Object Type
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Book
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Albert Gallatin Boone
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Photos of Albert Gallatin Boone, or Albert Boone, grandson of pioneer Daniel Boone and operator of Boone's Trading Post in mid-19th century Westport.
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Vertical File
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Pen and Sunlight Sketches of Kansas City and Environs
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Description of "D. Merriwether and Son," a grocery store established about 1877 in the Boone's Trading Post building at the northwest corner of Westport and Pennsylvania Avenues. Description of David Merriwether (David Meriwether?) as a middle-aged native of Georgia and his son William W. Merriwether (William Meriwether?) as a native of Missouri.
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Date
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1892
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Object Type
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Book
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Albert Gallatin Boone
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Information about Albert Gallatin Boone, or Albert Boone (1806-1884), the grandson of Daniel Boone and leader in the Santa Fe outfitting trade after 1849 in Westport. Photos, illustrations, and descriptions of his career, entering Westport in 1838, operating a grocery business with J. G. Hamilton until 1849, then with William R. Bernard until 1853, then owning the Boone's Trading Post store from 1854 until 1859, one of the oldest standing buildings in Kansas City.
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Vertical File
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Kelly's Taverns
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Description
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Photos, illustrations, and information on Kelly's bar at 500 Westport Road, built in the mid-1800s and often called the oldest building in Kansas City. Used for various purposes including a Santa Fe trading post, grocery store (since the early 1900s by the Wiedenmann family of Overland Park, still the owners of the building in the 1970s), and bar or tavern since at least 1936 (the Westport Inn then until bought by Ireland native Randal Kelly in the 1940s).
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Boone's Trading Post
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Description
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File contains information about the Ewing-Boone building, or Boone's Trading Post, disputed over as the oldest extant building in Westport. Photos, illustrations, and description of its history, built in 1850, according to William Goff, by the Ewing brothers, George W. Ewing and William G. Ewing, with construction starting at 504 Westport Road and then moved to 500 Westport Road, sold in 1854 to Albert Boone.
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Vertical File
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Boone's Trading Post
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Transcription from the article: He reasoned that the building had been built in the early 1850s rather than the established date of 1837 and that it had been built by the Ewing Brothers rather than by Joseph Parks. Transactions for the property and building were the following: John Calvin McCoy sold lot to Joseph Parks, December 16, 1836, and sold back to McCoy July 13, 1837, for $360. Samuel C. Roby, Indian trader, the next buyer on February 22, 1847, for $700. Then sold to George W. Ewing on July 27, 1848, for $1500. Ewing sold the tract to Albert Gallatin Boone on January 6, 1854, for $7000, which would indicate that a new building had been built. Next buyer was Robert Campbell on September 6, 1859, for $7000. Robert Campbell sold the building to Samuel Rucker on March 27, 1866, for $4000--foreclosure on October 14, 1876, when Henry Rieger bought it for $400. Research done by Dean Earl Wood, Kansas City lawyer, who died in Kansas City, May 14, 1967: The two-story building was sold to David Meriwether on March 11, 1880, for $1600. During Mr. Meriwether's ownership the annex on the north was built probably in 1891 or 1892. In 1904 the property sold to John F. and Jake C. Wiedenmann and is now (1968) owned by Mr. & Mrs. George R. Wiedenmann.
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Date
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1966-06-08
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Mark City's Oldest Building
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News about the placement of a "plaque marking a structure at 500 Westport road as the oldest building in Kansas City," known as Boone's Trading Post or Kelly's Tavern, said to be "built in 1837 by Joseph Parks, a merchant [o]f mixed white and Indian ancestry" and later used by "Albert Gallatin Boone, a grandson of Daniel Boone" as "an outfitting store for wagon trains" in the 1850s.
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Date
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1959-11-08
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Newspaper Article
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Walls and Foundation
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Description
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Interior view of foundation detail; from research report on the building.
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Date
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1969
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Post and Foundation Stone
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Description
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Interior view of post and foundation stone; from research report on the building.
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Date
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1969
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Ceiling and Wall Intersection
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Description
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Interior view of second floor ceiling and wall intersection; from research report on the building.
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Date
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1969
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Building Foundation
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Description
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Interior view of foundation detail; from research report on the building.
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Date
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1969
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Joists
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Description
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Interior view of first floor joists; from research report on the building.
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Date
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1969
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Masonry Strap
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Description
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Interior view of masonry strap detail; from research report on the building.
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Date
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1969
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Stonework
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Description
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Interior view of masonry detail; from research report on the building.
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Date
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1969
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Door
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Description
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Interior view of second story door; from research report on the building.
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Date
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1969
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Pennsylvania Street
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Looking north along Pennsylvania just south of Westport Road.
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Date
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1923
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Object Type
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Photograph
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