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Title
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Has Two Big Buildings in Kansas City
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Description
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Notice that says Jarvis Hunt has been commissioned to build the new Union Depot (Union Station) and the National Bank of Commerce. Article indicates the station is to cost millions of dollars.
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Date
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1906-07
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Kansas City Star Building
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Description
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View looking northeast of the Kansas City Star building at 18th Street and Grand Avenue. Cars parked along Grand Avenue can be seen. The caption on the photograph reads: Exterior View Kansas City Star. Jarvies Hunt - Architect, Peter Larson - Builder, Haydite Concrete in Addition.
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Date
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1925~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Kansas City Star
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Description
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Interior view of the Kansas City Star press room addition. Newspaper production equipment can be seen. The caption on the photograph reads: Press Room Addition - Haydite Concrete, Kansas City Star, Jarvies Hunt - Architect, Peter Larson - Builder.
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Date
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1925~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Work on KC Ballet Center Begins
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Description
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In 1996, the Kansas City Ballet decided on the old Union Station Power House for their new home. The renovation of the Power House, which was designed by the architect Jarvis Hunt in 1913, will take about 22 months at a cost of $31 million.
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Date
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2009-09-18
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Commerce Bank
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Description
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File contains a brochure with a postcard illustration and history of the Bank of Commerce Building, built in 1907 at 10th and Walnut Streets by architect Jarvis Hunt, also the architect of the Kansas City Star Building and the Union Station. Information also about the history of the Bank of Commerce back to its origins in 1865 on the Levee in Kansas City, "at one time sharing a building at Fourth and Delaware with the Magnolia Saloon."
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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The City Beautiful Movement in Kansas City
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Description
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Chapter of the book about the Union Station and its architect, Jarvis Hunt, comprehensively describing its designs and related urban planning from 1901 to 1914 at nearly the end of the City Beautiful movement in Kansas City and leading to the abandonment of the old Union Depot area by rail traffic and businesses. Description of railroad industry negotiations with city promoters and planners, including J. C. Nichols, R. A. Long, William Rockhill Nelson, George Kessler, and Jarvis Hunt, et al., including its construction on the site of the O. K. Creek sewer and other landscaping aesthetic issues in its surroundings. Description also of competition and opinions on its designs by rivals of Hunt, such as Louis Sullivan, "D. H. Burnham [or Daniel Burnham] and Co., also of Chicago, and Howe, Hoit and Cutler, a Kansas City firm," especially starting in 1906.
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Date
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1964
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Object Type
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Book
