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Title: The City Beautiful Movement in Kansas City
Description: 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.
Date: 1964
Object Type: Book

Title: City of Saint Louis
Description: Photo and bio of Theodore Link, an architect and the designer of that city's Union Station, born in Germany in 1850.
Date: 1893
Object Type: Book

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: The Book of Missourians
Description: 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.
Date: 1906
Object Type: Book

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: Old and New St. Louis: A Concise History of the Metropolis of the West and Southwest, with a Review of Its Present Greatness and Immediate Prospects
Description: Photo and bio of Theodore Link, "one of the most prominent architects of the [Saint Louis] city" and the designer of that city's Union Station, born in Germany in 1850.
Date: 1894
Object Type: Book

Title: Missouri's Contribution to American Architecture
Description: 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.
Date: 1928
Object Type: Book

Title: Kansas City Women of Independent Minds
Description: 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.
Date: 1992
Object Type: Book

Title: The Architecture of John Wellborn Root
Description: 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).
Date: 1973
Object Type: Book

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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