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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: 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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