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Title: Crown Center Redevelopment Corporation
Description: Photos from clippings of the hill, roughly between 27th, Main, Pershing, and Grand Avenue, covered with advertising signs prior to the construction of Crown Center.
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Tin Town
Description: There was anxiety today among the fourteen residents of the community known as tin town," which lies on the bluff and in the hollow to the east of McGee Road just south of Pershing Road."
Date: 1940-01-05
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Missouri State Role in Project
Description: Article describing the Hallmark-owned Crown Center Redevelopment Project, "enabling legislation" to redevelop the area of Signboard Hill.
Date: 1967-01-05
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Plan Huge Urban Center
Description: Multiple use development at "Signboard Hill site" including hotel complex, apartments, motor inn, and cultural center to begin with. Victor Gruen & Associates of Los Angeles and Larry Smith & Company of Seattle to do preliminary work on plan.
Date: 1967-01-04
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: The Signboard Hill Area
Description: Photo and caption about the urban renewal plans for Signboard Hill, "east of Main street and south of Pershing road" and 120 acres surrounding it "between the Union Station. ..and Hospital hill, [22nd Street] to [27th Terrace]." View depicting also Liberty Memorial and the "older part of the Hallmark Cards plant," later the company reponsible for building the Crown Center shopping complex there.
Date: 1963-02-20
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Aerial View of Signboard Hill
Description: Aerial view looking northeast from Signboard Hill. The view includes the Journal Post Building, Coca Cola Building, General Hospital, and Hotel Plaza.
Date: 1920~
Object Type: Negative

Title: A Dream of What Might Be When Kansas City Acquires "Signboard" Hill [and] What Will Happen if "Signboard" Hill Is Allowed to Continue
Description: Large illustrations of potential developments on Signboard Hill (later the site of the Crown Center mixed use complex) across Main Street from Liberty Memorial and Penn Valley Park. First illustration of neatly planned public buildings and facilities with careful landscaping, etc. and second illustration of unmanaged, rough-looking hill covered with large commercial signs of all types.
Date: 1923-05-27
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: The Crown Jewel on Signboard Hill
Description: Article with descriptive and photographic views of Crown Center, which covers up Signboard Hill, formerly the city's "most notorious eyesore."
Date: 1975-01
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: The Promises of Signboard Hill
Description: History of Signboard Hill, the site of Crown Center, but previously an urban planning problem and eyesore covered with signboard "uglies."
Date: 1973-03
Object Type: Book

Title: Mr. Kessler's Opinion
Description: Opinions of the city's landscape architect regarding what to do with Signboard Hill, the hill between Union Station and Penn Valley Park.
Date: 1914-03
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: A Union Station Park
Description: Short article about the favorable proposition to use the "land directly to the south of the new Union Station ... for park purposes," and "that ample traffic ways to the east and to the west from the station should be provided," with a photo of Union Station.
Date: 1914-03
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: When Signboard Hill Was a Picnic Place
Description: Reminiscences of Martin "Keck's Tivoli Garden" in the 1870s roughly between 23rd, Baltimore, 25th, and Main Streets, a picnicking and dancing site on Signboard Hill. Description of Martin Keck, owner of the garden, arriving in Independence "from Germany in 1855," and engaging as a Santa Fe freighter in Westport until starting the Tivoli Garden in Kansas City in 1868 at about 24th and Main Streets.
Date: 1970-03
Object Type: Magazine Article

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