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Title: KC's Bull Will Be Back in Skyline
Description: HNTB Architects Engineers Planners took down the Hereford Bull statue when they bought the American Hereford Association building. Calvin Trillin lamented the loss in The New Yorker last year. Now the famous bull will be located in Mulkey Square Park atop a new 65-foot pre-cast concrete pylon that is being donated by HNTB, DST Systems and the J. E. Dunn Construction Company.
Date: 2002-05-17
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Letter from Kansas City: The Bull Vanishes--Does Being a Cowtown Require the Presence of Cows?
Description: Illustration and article about the removal of the bull statue atop the old American Hereford Association Building (to a nearby park in Downtown Kansas City) with the relocation of the architectural firm of HNTB into the building (originally dedicated by President Dwight Eisenhower in the mid-1950s). Discussion also on Kansas City's general image (by the famous author, a former Kansas Citian) as a "cowtown."
Date: 2001-06-11
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: HNTB Makes Its Move to Old Hereford Building
Description: Photo and article about the moving of the corporate headquarters of HNTB Architects Engineers Planners (or Howard Needles Tammen & Bergendoff, "founded 87 years ago") in 2001 "from the 1201 Walnut Building to 715 Kirk Drive, a four-story building that formerly housed the American Hereford Association." Building "[d]edicated by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1953" with "a fiberglass bull" atop it for many years.
Date: 2001-05-22
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: 300 W. 11th
Description: Full frontal and partial side view of office building at 300 W. 11th (northwest corner of 11th and Central), originally American Hereford Association Building.
Date: 1989
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 1220 Washington Building
Description: View facing northwest of the 1220 Washington Building. The American Hereford Association bull is visible just to the right of center, above horizon.
Date: 1986
Object Type: Photograph

Title: American Hereford Association Building
Description: Exterior view of the American Hereford Cattle Breeders Association building, at 300 West 11th Street, on the northwest corner of 11th and Central streets. Looking north, northwest. Sign at corner of building advertises work being done by Dasta Construction Co. The building became the Ararat Shrine Temple in 1953 when the American Hereford Association moved to 11th and Hereford Drive.
Date: 1978-01
Object Type: Negative

Title: American Hereford Association Building
Description: Exterior view of the American Hereford Cattle Breeders Association building at 300 West 11th Street. Looking northwest; taken from southeast corner of 11th and Central streets. Sign at corner of building advertises work being done by Dasta Construction Co. The building became the Ararat Shrine Temple in 1953 when the American Hereford Association moved to 11th and Hereford Drive.
Date: 1978-01
Object Type: Negative

Title: American Hereford Association Building
Description: Exterior view of the American Hereford Cattle Breeders Association Building, at 300 West 11th Street. Photograph looking northeast. Sign at corner of building advertises work being done by Dasta Construction Co. The building became the Ararat Shrine Temple in 1953 when the American Hereford Association moved to 11th Street and Hereford Drive.
Date: 1978-01
Object Type: Negative

Title: American Hereford Association Building
Description: View of front of American Hereford Association Building at 715 Hereford (Kirk) Drive. Shows bull.
Date: 1954-10
Object Type: Photograph

Title: ''...It Was Founded Upon a Rock''
Description: History of the American Hereford Association with drawing of new headquarters building built at West 11th Street and Jefferson, including floor plans for all three floors. The Association began June 22, 1881; first Association Show in 1899 was held in Kansas City. On page 180 is photo of the residence of Charles Gudgell, Independence, Missouri, the first real home of the American Hereford Cattle Breeders' Association. Gudgell was the Association secretary from 1884 to 1887. Headquarters moved to 300 W. 11th Street, Kansas City, in 1920, after occupying various locations until then.
Date: 1953-07-01
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Missouri's Contribution to American Architecture
Description: Photograph of the building for the American Hereford Cattle Breeders Association.
Date: 1918
Object Type: Book

Title: American Hereford Association Building
Description: Full frontal view; located at 715 Hereford Drive (West 11th Street).
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 11th and Pennsylvania
Description: View looking west of 11th Street from its intersection with Pennsylvania Avenue. Cars parked along 11th Street can be seen. The American Hereford Association and bull can be seen in the distance. The Dickerton House is in view on the left hand side of the image.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Residences on Pennsylvania
Description: View looking northwest of residences along Pennsylvania Avenue from just south of its intersection with 12th Street. The house that once stood at 1214 Pennsylvania Avenue is center in the image. The American Hereford Association Building and bull can be seen in the background.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Gene's Garage
Description: View looking northwest of Gene's Garage at 1226 Jefferson Street. Cars parked along Jefferson Street can be seen. The American Hereford Association Building and bull is in view in the background.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: American Hereford Association
Description: Promotional postcard for the American Hereford Association showing the cattle breeder's building at 300 W. 11th Street.
Date: 1921~
Object Type: Postcard

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