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Title
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The City Beautiful Movement in Kansas City
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Description
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Chapter of the book about the Union Station and its architect, Jarvis Hunt, comprehensively describing its designs and related urban planning from 1901 to 1914 at nearly the end of the City Beautiful movement in Kansas City and leading to the abandonment of the old Union Depot area by rail traffic and businesses. Description of railroad industry negotiations with city promoters and planners, including J. C. Nichols, R. A. Long, William Rockhill Nelson, George Kessler, and Jarvis Hunt, et al., including its construction on the site of the O. K. Creek sewer and other landscaping aesthetic issues in its surroundings. Description also of competition and opinions on its designs by rivals of Hunt, such as Louis Sullivan, "D. H. Burnham [or Daniel Burnham] and Co., also of Chicago, and Howe, Hoit and Cutler, a Kansas City firm," especially starting in 1906.
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Date
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1964
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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City of Saint Louis
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Description
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Photo and bio of Theodore Link, an architect and the designer of that city's Union Station, born in Germany in 1850.
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Date
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1893
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Views from the Past: Missouri Landmark
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Description
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Brief article highlighting some notable buildings and architects, including the New York Life Building, the Coates House, the Boley Building, and Union Station.
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Date
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1977-01
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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The Book of Missourians
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Description
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Biographical sketch of Theodore Link, an architect born in Germany in 1850 and moving to Saint Louis in 1873, designing the Saint Louis Union Station assisting the engineering of Forest Park there.
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Date
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1906
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Contributors to Missouri Culture: Theodore Carl Link
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Description
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Biography of Saint Louis architect Theodore Carl Link, born in Germany in 1850 and architect of "both the Second Presbyterian Church. ..and Union Station. ..during the 1890s" in Saint Louis, Missouri, with illustrations and photo.
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Date
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2000-01
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Architect Made His Mark
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Description
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Tribute to architect Cary Conrad Goodman, whose work included the Bartle Hall expansion, Kemper Arena, and the museums at 18th and Vine. Goodman also worked on restoring the Gem Theatre and Union Station.
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Date
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2011-01-05
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Missouri's Contribution to American Architecture
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Description
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Photo and brief bio of Albert Groves (1866-1925), graduate of the Cornell University School of Architecture and a native of Rhode Island. Also a photo and brief bio of fellow architect Theodore Carl Link, or Theodore Link (1850-1923), "[a]rchitect of the St. Louis Union Station" and native of Germany.
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Date
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1928
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Kansas City Women of Independent Minds
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Description
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Photo and bio of Mary Colter (1869~1957), "chief architect, designer, and decorator" for the Fred Harvey Company with "her office in Kansas City Union Station." Decorator and remodeler of the local Harvey Company Gift Shop and Westport Room, born in Saint Paul, Minnesota and coming to Kansas City about 1922.
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Date
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1992
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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The Architecture of John Wellborn Root
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Description
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Photo (of the Grand Avenue railroad station) and description (by author and Kansas City Star architectural critic Donald Hoffmann) of buildings and construction techniques in Kansas City designed by architect John Root of the firm of Burnham & Root, including the following: "deep caisson foundations" pioneered in Kansas City by architect Louis Curtiss (as an improvement to Root's steel "rail-grillage footing"), the old Board of Trade Building of 1888 (destroyed in 1966), the James Lombard residence at 1805 Jefferson Street and the Young Men's Christian Association (or Y. M. C. A.) building in 1887, and the Grand Avenue Station for railroads at 22nd and Grand Avenues in 1889 (demolished to make way for Union Station).
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Date
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1973
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Commerce Bank
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Description
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File contains a brochure with a postcard illustration and history of the Bank of Commerce Building, built in 1907 at 10th and Walnut Streets by architect Jarvis Hunt, also the architect of the Kansas City Star Building and the Union Station. Information also about the history of the Bank of Commerce back to its origins in 1865 on the Levee in Kansas City, "at one time sharing a building at Fourth and Delaware with the Magnolia Saloon."
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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SC164 KCPL Reference Hard to Find Collection Finding Aid
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Description
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The materials within the KCPL Reference Hard to Find (HTF) Collection were compiled by Kansas City Public Library reference librarians and staff members to provide an easy to access source of information concerning topics of local and regional interest. The collection primarily consists of newspaper and magazine clippings, pamphlets, brochures, other forms of printed material, and typed notecards.
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Date
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1980/2005
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Object Type
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Finding Aid