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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: A Union Station Park
Description: Short article about the favorable proposition to use the "land directly to the south of the new Union Station ... for park purposes," and "that ample traffic ways to the east and to the west from the station should be provided," with a photo of Union Station.
Date: 1914-03
Object Type: Magazine Article

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