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Title
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Old Westport
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Description
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Descriptions of the two of Westport's oldest buildings, the Chouteau-Bridger Building, now Stanford & Son's, and the "Ewing-Boone Building" or Boone's Trading Post, now Kelly's, both built in the mid-1800s, with descriptions of their histories and need for architectural preservation.
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Date
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1977
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Memories of Old Westport
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Description
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Description of the store "erected by Colonel Albert G. Boone" in Westport as the first brick building west of Independence.
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Date
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1924-10
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Just to Keep the Record Straight
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Description
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Article about the 1850 completion date for the building of Boone's Trading Post with information on Westport pioneers Major John Campbell, Albert Boone, and Captain Joseph Parks, et al.
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Date
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1974-09
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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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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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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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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Title
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Albert Gallatin Boone
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Description
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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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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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Albert Gallatin Boone
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Description
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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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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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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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Title
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Pen and Sunlight Sketches of Kansas City and Environs
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Description
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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
