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Title: Kelly's Taverns
Description: 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).
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Stanford and Sons
Description: Photograph of Stanford and Sons restaurant and comedy club, at 504 Westport Road, circa 1980. Standing to its east, at the right of the photo, is Kelly's Bar at 500 Westport Road. Both buildings were built circa 1850 and are among the oldest buildings in Kansas City. The Manor Bakery building is visible in the background of the image.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Stanford and Sons
Description: Photograph of Stanford and Sons restaurant and comedy club, at 504 Westport Road, circa 1980. Standing to its east, at the right of the photo, is Kelly's Bar at 500 Westport Road. Both buildings were built circa 1850 and are among the oldest buildings in Kansas City. The Manor Bakery building is visible in the background of the image.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Stanford and Sons
Description: Photograph of the southwest side of Stanford and Sons restaurant and comedy club, at 504 Westport Road, circa 1980. Sanford and Sons' main building is known as the Bridger Building, one of the oldest buildings in Kansas City.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kelly's Bar
Description: Photograph of Kelly's Bar at the corner of Westport and Pennsylvania circa 1974. Mack-Lang Printing stands to its southwest in the Bridger Building at 504 Westport Road.
Date: 1974~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Stanford and Sons
Description: Photograph of Stanford and Sons restaurant and comedy club, at 504 Westport Road, circa 1980. Standing to its east, at the right of the photo, is Kelly's Bar at 500 Westport Road. Both buildings were built circa 1850 and are among the oldest buildings in Kansas City. The Manor Bakery building is visible in the background of the image.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kelly's Bar
Description: Photograph of Kelly's Westport Inn, at 500 Westport Road, in the early 1980s. Standing to its west, at the left of the photo, is the Chouteau-Bridger Building at 504 Westport Road, with Stanford and Sons restaurant and comedy club as its tenant. Both buildings were built circa 1850 and are among the oldest buildings in Kansas City.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kelly's Bar & Stanford and Sons
Description: Photograph of Kelly's Westport Inn, at 500 Westport Road, circa 1980. Standing to its west, at the left of the photo, is the Chouteau-Bridger Building at 504 Westport Road, with Stanford and Sons restaurant and comedy club as its tenant. Both buildings were built circa 1850 and are among the oldest buildings in Kansas City.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kelly's Bar & Stanford and Sons
Description: Photograph of Kelly's Bar at the corner of Westport and Pennsylvania in the late 1970s. Stanford and Sons restaurant and bar stands to its south at 504 Westport Road.
Date: 1970~/1979~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kelly's Bar & Mack-Lang Printing
Description: Photograph of Kelly's Bar at the corner of Westport and Pennsylvania circa 1974. Mack-Lang Printing stands to its southwest in the Bridger Building at 504 Westport Road.
Date: 1974~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: When's a Bar Not a Bar?
Description: Story examining the origins and history of the possibly oldest building in Westport, now known as Kelly's bar, but with several name changes through the years.
Date: 1972-09
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Old Westport
Description: 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.
Date: 1977
Object Type: Book

Title: The Westport Antiquity Sweepstakes, or Who Really Has the Oldest Building in Westport?
Description: Present-day Kelly's was Boone's Trading Post in Westport, built in 1850 by the Ewing brothers, William Ewing and George Ewing.
Date: 1977-04
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Jim Bridger's Store Still Stands?
Description: Article about the store building used for Jim Bridger's business in Westport in the mid-1800s, bought from Cyprien Chouteau, still standing at 504 Westport Road next to Boone's Trading Post, with speculations of the date of its construction.
Date: 1974-12
Object Type: Magazine Article

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