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Title: Southwestern Bell Telephone Building
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Bell Telephone Administration Building
Description: Chapter about the original Telephone Building owned by Southwestern Bell Telephone Company on the northwest corner of 11th and Oak Streets. It was completed in 1919. Fourteen floors were added and completed the spring of 1929. Hoit, Price & Barnes, architects, designed a gothic exterior faced with terra cotta. The building has 28 stories with set backs at the 22nd and 25th floors.
Date: 1934
Object Type: Book Section

Title: Telephone Building to Lose Height Record to Two Rivals
Description: Picture showing relative heights of five tallest buildings at the time compared with the Liberty Memorial.
Date: 1930-05-11
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Union Station from Liberty Memorial
Description: View facing south that captures the downtown Kansas City, Missouri, skyline. Union Station, the Fidelity National Bank Building, the Southwestern Bell Telephone Building, the Jackson County Courthouse, City Hall, the Richard Bolling Federal Building, and other downtown buildings can be seen.
Date: 1965-09-05
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Downtown Rooftop View
Description: View facing southeast taken from the Commerce Towers Building at 911 Main Street. The Richard Bolling Federal Building, Jackson County Courthouse, City Hall, the Southwestern Bell Telephone Building, and other downtown buildings can be seen.
Date: 1966-05-04
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Buildings near 12th & Main Street
Description: Rooftop view looking northeast along 12th Street from Main Street. Shows Boley Building and, in the distance, the Telephone Building under construction. A sign on the nearest building reads "Foreman and Clark From Coast to Coast."
Date: 1929
Object Type: Negative

Title: Southwestern Bell Telephone Building
Description: Distant view of the Southwestern Bell Telephone Building at 11th and Oak streets. Early cars parked along the street can be seen. A pedestrian walking on the sidewalk is in view.
Date: 1920
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Zeldin Drugs Building
Description: View looking northeast of the Zeldin Drugs building that once stood at the corner of 12th Street and Grand Avenue. Pedestrians and cars can be seen. The Rieger Building that once stood at 1121-1123 Grand Avenue is in view on the left hand side of the image.
Date: 1960-02
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Oak Street
Description: Rooftop view, taken from the Telephone Building, looking south along Oak.
Date: 1926
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Bell Telephone Building
Description: Postcard of the Southwestern Bell Telephone Building at 11th and Oak streets.
Object Type: Postcard

Title: Oak Street
Description: Rooftop view, taken from the Telephone Building, looking north along Oak.
Date: 1926
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Oak Street
Description: Rooftop view, taken from the Telephone Building, looking south along Oak.
Date: 1926
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Oak Street
Description: Rooftop view, taken from the Telephone Building, looking south along Oak.
Date: 1926
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 11th Street
Description: Rooftop view looking east along 11th Street from Main Street.
Date: 1935
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 11th Street
Description: Rooftop view looking east along 11th Street from Main Street.
Date: 1935
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Oak Street
Description: Rooftop view looking northwest from the east side of Oak south of 12th.
Date: 1930
Object Type: Photograph

Title: People atop Telephone Building
Description: Unidentified people atop Telephone Building watching the Graf Zeppelin.
Date: 1929-08-28
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Telephone Building
Description: Full frontal and partial side view. Shows building before upper stories were added.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Oak Street
Description: Looking north along the east side of Oak just north of 13th.
Date: 1930-02
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Oak Street
Description: Looking north along the east side of Oak just north of 13th.
Date: 1930-02
Object Type: Photograph

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