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Title
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Kansas City Then & Now
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Description
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Photos and description of the change in the structures and streets at the intersection of Main, Delaware, and 9th Streets (formerly known as the Junction and removed of Delaware Street) from just after the Civil War (with only wooden buildings) to the Diamond Building (built about 1870 by Samuel Vaughan), its replacement about 1915 by the Westgate Hotel (demolished in 1954 with the street straightening), and replacement by the Muse of the Missouri fountain, TenMain Center, and Commerce Tower in the late 1900s.
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Date
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2000
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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In Memoriam: Sarah Walter Chandler Coates
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Description
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Photos of the Junction, near 10th and Main Streets, in 1867, showing early storefront signs such as "Planters House" and "St. Nicholas Restaurant & Billiard Saloon."
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Date
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1898~
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Lost America: From the Mississippi to the Pacific
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Description
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Photo of Vaughan's Diamond building, a "successful example of the genre [mansard roofs]," designed by architect Asa Beebe Cross and standing at the Junction in Kansas City from 1869 to about 1890.
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Date
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1972
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Missouri's Contribution to American Architecture
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Description
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Photo of the building at the Junction of 9th, Delaware, and Main Streets, designed by Kansas City architect Asa Beebe Cross, or Asa Cross, and built in 1869 (and replaced with a taller building there in 1890).
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Date
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1928
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Object Type
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Book
