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Title: Views from the Past: Missouri Landmark
Description: Brief article highlighting some notable buildings and architects, including the New York Life Building, the Coates House, the Boley Building, and Union Station.
Date: 1977-01
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Contributors to Missouri Culture: Theodore Carl Link
Description: 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.
Date: 2000-01
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Architect Made His Mark
Description: 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.
Date: 2011-01-05
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Commerce Bank
Description: 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."
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: The Rise and Demise of the Architectural League of Kansas City [with a Note on Architectural Record Keeping in the Region]
Description: History of the Architectural League of Kansas City, established in 1922 with the split of "nearly half the members of the Kansas City Chapter of the American Institute of Architects" derived from grievances over the building of the Liberty Memorial and Union Station. Description and photos of the some of the significant architecture in the years during the league's operations, ending in 1933.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Henry Van Brunt of the Architectural Firm of Van Brunt and Howe: The Kansas City Years
Description: A 133-page typewritten thesis toward a master's degree from the University of Missouri-Kansas City about the architectural firm of Van Brunt & Howe and its partners, Henry Van Brunt (1832-1903), a nationally prominent architect, writer, and native of Boston, and main designer of the firm, and Frank Maynard Howe, or Frank Howe (1849-1909), starting as Van Brunt's assistant in Boston in 1868 and becoming partner in 1883, then starting up its branch in Kansas City in 1885 for "their commission to build railroad stations for the Union Pacific Railroad." Description of Howe's career, serving as public relations for the "dominant architectural firm in Kansas City" in the late 19th century" with offices in the Delaware Building and then the Bayard Building, and after Van Brunt's death shifting to Howe, Hoit & Cutler, the firm first hiring Mary Rockwell Hook as an architect. Photos, illustrations, and descriptions of Van Brunt & Howe's 33 structures in Kansas City in eclectic styles.
Date: 1976
Object Type: Thesis/Dissertation

Title: Biography of Joseph (1934-1978) and Patricia (1936-1996) Shaughnessy, Community Activists
Date: 2003
Object Type: Biography

Title: Biography of Mary Elizabeth Colter (1869-1958), Architect and Designer
Date: 1999
Object Type: Biography

Title: SC164 KCPL Reference Hard to Find Collection Finding Aid
Description: 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.
Date: 1980/2005
Object Type: Finding Aid

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