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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: Union Station and Sweeney Automotive School
Description: View looking west from the Signboard Hill area near Union Station and Sweeney Automotive School. Includes the backsides of several billboards.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Intersection of Main Street and Grand Avenue - Signboard Hill
Description: Skyline view looking north from the intersection of Main Street and Grand Avenue showing Signboard Hill.
Date: 1927-10-15
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Main Street
Description: Street level view believed to be looking south on Main Street by Union Station area or Signboard Hill area. Identified as cut through the rocks near Union Station.
Date: 1928
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Union Station from Signboard Hill
Description: Partial frontal view looking north from Signboard Hill along Main.
Date: 1930
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Signboard Hill
Description: Looking south along the west side of Main Street near Pershing Road. The Hotel Plaza and Signboard Hill can be seen.
Date: 1955
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Midtown Kansas City, Missouri
Description: Looking northeast from Liberty Memorial.
Date: 1945
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Union Station - Tower 6
Description: View looking southwest of Interlocking Tower 6, once located to the east of Union Station along the Kansas City Terminal Railway tracks. Buildings once located at the intersection of Pershing Road and Main Street, the Liberty Memorial, and Union Station can be seen. Signs for the Upjohn Company, the Hotel Plaza, and Sherwin-Williams are in view.
Date: 1940~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Main Street
Description: Looking north along Main from just south of Pershing Road.
Date: 1930
Object Type: Photograph

Title: View South from atop Coca-Cola Building
Description: Panoramic view looking south from the roof of the Coca-Cola (later Western Auto) building at 2107 Grand Avenue. Neighborhoods and business districts south of downtown can be seen. Several buildings are in view, including: General Hospital, General Hospital No. 2, Rahe's Automobile and Tractor (also known as the Kansas City Journal Post) Building, Schutte Lumber Company, Union Station, and the Sweeney Automobile School (later the BMA Building). In view are signs for: Oldsmobile, Holsum Bread, Melton Tire & Battery, Norwalk Tires, Kelly Tires, Racine Tires, White Rose Butter, Sunshine Biscuits, Merit Bread, Camel cigarettes, National Biscuit Company, and Folger's Coffee Company. Signboard Hill can be seen to the northwest of Union Station. The view spans the Kansas City Terminal Railway tracks, which are in view on the right hand side of the photograph.
Date: 1922~
Object Type: Photograph

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: Plaza Hotel
Description: Full frontal and side view; located at 13 E. 24th. View looking south of the Plaza Hotel, once located at 13 E. 24th Street near Signboard Hill.
Date: 1925
Object Type: Photograph

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

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