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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: 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: 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: 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: 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

Title: The Business District of Kansas City
Description: Panoramic photograph showing the downtown area. The photograph is labeled: The Business District of Kansas City, June 7, 1922. Panoramic photograph from the General Hospital, showing the new Union Station and the city's growing skyline. Labels written on the photograph include: General Hospital, Entrance to Penn Valley Park, Overland Building, Memorial Park, Indications of Approximate Location of Pershing Road, Union Station, J. I. Case Threshing Machine Company, D. A. Moor Building, Coca-Cola, Film Exchange, Kansas City Club, K. C. A. C. Bldg., Kansas City Star, Waldheim Bldg., Commerce Bldg., R. A. Ling Bldg., Federal Reserve Bank Bldg., Telephone Bldg., Densmore Hotel, Locust, Oak, Hospital Hill, proposed Oak St. Viaduct and Approach, Gillham Road, McGee St. Viaduct, Proposed Cut in Grade 21 Feet, and 23rd. Several buildings are in view, including: Schutte Lumber, the Sweeney Automobile School (later BMA) Building, Union Station, the Rahe Auto & Tractor School (also the Kansas City Journal Post) Building, the Coca-Cola (later Western Auto) Building, the Firestone Building, and General Hospital No. 2. In view are signs for: Racine Tires, Camel cigarettes, Kelly Tires, Carey Roofing, and Franklin Ice Cream. The Signboard Hill area can be seen to the southwest of Union Station.
Date: 1922-06-07
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Future Liberty Memorial Site
Description: View looking northwest of the Signboard Hill area at the intersection of Main and 24th streets. Construction of street railway lines headed south along Main Street can be seen on the left hand side of the image. Construction of the Sweeney Automobile School Building, late the Businessmen's Assurance Company Building at 24th and Wyandotte streets can be seen on the right. A portion of the Park Hotel Building is in view in the background.
Date: 1917~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: When Signboard Hill Was a Picnic Place
Description: Reminiscences of Martin "Keck's Tivoli Garden" in the 1870s roughly between 23rd, Baltimore, 25th, and Main Streets, a picnicking and dancing site on Signboard Hill. Description of Martin Keck, owner of the garden, arriving in Independence "from Germany in 1855," and engaging as a Santa Fe freighter in Westport until starting the Tivoli Garden in Kansas City in 1868 at about 24th and Main Streets.
Date: 1970-03
Object Type: Magazine Article

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