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Title: Swap and Chop
Description: Review of the Phillips Chop House, a restaurant housed in the dining room of the Phillips Hotel. Article mentions several other incarnations of the space, including the Walnut Room, Sir Loin Room, and Walt Bodine's Steakhouse.
Date: 2003-07-10
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Valentine Hotel
Description: Photograph of the Valentine Hotel at 3724 Broadway Boulevard in the early 1980s. The building, originally known as the Valentine on Broadway Hotel, was designed by local architect Nelle E. Peters and built by apartment developer Charles E. Phillips in 1927. The building originally housed 68 apartments and 72 hotel rooms.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Street Hotel
Description: Postcard showing the Street Hotel, once located at 1508-1512 E. 18th Street. The reverse side of the postcard reads: 18th St. at Paseo. This hotel has 60 guest rooms with private bath and telephone service. Conveniently located on the first floor are: a Haberdasher, a Tailor, Post Office, and the famous Blue Room Cocktail Lounge and Restaurant.
Date: 1940~
Object Type: Postcard

Title: Glennon Hotel
Description: Postcard of the Glennon Hotel that once stood at 12th Street and Baltimore Avenue.
Object Type: Postcard

Title: Hotel Commonwealth
Description: Postcard of the Hotel Commonwealth that once stood at 12th Street and Broadway Boulevard.
Object Type: Postcard

Title: Little Hotels, Big Problem
Description: Review of the lack of more than 2,000 hotel rooms within walking distance of the convention center, thus limiting the number of covention Kansas City can host. Some say that the smaller hotels around Barney Allis Plaza, like the Hotel Phillips, Aladdin, Hilton President, grab a vital market share but are too small to help the convention market grow. Article includes a comparison chart with other US cities and a map with downtown area hotels.
Date: 2007-07-17
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Hotels in Kansas City
Description: The file includes articles about various Kansas City hotels and a copy of the National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination Form for "Hotels in the Downtown Area of Kansas City."
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: 85th Troop Carriers Squadron
Description: Interior view of men and women attending 85th Troop Carriers Squadron reunion banquet, Phillips Hotel.
Date: 1950-06-06
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Virginia B. Stilts Raupp
Description: Obituary for Virginia B. Raupp, former banker with the Kansas City Federal Reserve, Traders National Bank, and City National Bank. "In 1930, as a champion swimmer and diver, she became the inspiration and model for Jorgen C. Dryer's statue of the Spirit of Dawn, which has resided in the lobby of the Phillips House Hotel in Kansas City since 1931." Virginia Raupp was born in Kansas City, Missouri, on August 9, 1915, and passed away on January 2, 2009.
Date: 2009-01-05
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: 12th Street
Description: Looking west along 12th from the southeast corner of 12th and Main.
Date: 1946
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Room Service
Description: Article describing the history of hotels and the food service they offered over the years in Kansas City. Includes a description of the Ormond Hotel, once located on the southwest corner of Linwood and Troost, which was home to an upscale restaurant as well as Bodine's Drug Store on the ground level (run by the parents of veteran Kansas City broadcaster Walt Bodine).
Date: 2006-08-27
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: The Toniest Place in Town
Description: Color pictures and article about the renovated Hotel Phillips at 12th and Baltimore. Helix Architecture + Design Inc. was responsible for the $20 million renovation, returning the hotel to "its Gatsby-esque glamour."
Date: 2007-09
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Sanborn Map, Kansas City, Vol. 1, 1939-1958, Page p027
Description: A portion of Kansas City from W. 11th Street south to W. 13th Street and from Wyandotte east to Baltimore, showing buildings and streets. Large numbers at edges of page refer to page with adjoining area.
Date: 1939/1958
Object Type: Map

Title: Murals
Description: File contains information on murals in the Phillips Hotel, President Hotel, Central Methodist Church, Paseo, and others as well as a photo and information about the murals at the Savoy Grill at 9th and Central Streets done by Edward J. Holslag depicting pioneers on the Santa Fe Trail.
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Southwest from Commerce Tower
Description: View facing southwest from the Commerce Towers Building at 911 Main Street. The Kansas City Power and Light Building, the Phillips Hotel, the Continental Hotel can be seen, and other downtown buildings.
Date: 1966-05-14
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Katz Drugstore
Description: View looking northwest of the Katz drugstore, once located on the ground floor of the Hotel Phillips at the intersection of 12th Street and Baltimore Avenue. A car parked along 12th Street and pedestrians can be seen. A small portion of the Hotel Bray is in view on the right hand side of the image.
Date: 1950~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Robert Heinlein
Description: The 34th World Science Fiction Convention was held in Kansas City, September 2-6, 1976 at the Radisson Muehlebach Hotel/Phillips House. The program book for the event includes a tribute to Robert Heinlein written by Isaac Asimov. Also includes a bibliography of Heinlein's works.
Date: 1905-05-29
Object Type: Book Section

Title: Juice Joint Jumping
Description: Article describing bars promoted as modern "Prohibition-Style" speakeasies. Establishment profiled include P.S. and Manifesto in Kansas City, The W. in Lee's Summit, The Hepburn in Springfield, Missouri, and The Thaxton Speakeasy in St. Louis.
Date: 2020-01
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Rockne Dinner
Description: View of what appears to be the head table at the Rockne Dinner held at the Phillips Hotel, probably in the Pioneer Room. Association Secretary N. Emerson Paton is shown with plaque in front of portrait of Knute Rockne. Others in photograph are unidentified. Historical mural painted by Daniel MacMorris is partially visible on wall behind.
Date: 1958
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Plate Class
Description: Review of Platters in the Hotel Phillips, 106 West 12th Street.
Date: 2001-11-15
Object Type: Newspaper Article

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