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Title
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Wight and Wight Architects
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Description
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Illustrations and information on Thomas Wight (1874-1949), co-founder of the prominent Kansas City architectural firm of Wight & Wight (originally Wilder & Wight), with residence at 3363 Holmes Street. Native of Canada emigrating to Kansas City about 1904, followed here by his brother William Wight (1882-1947) in 1911, and designing the following structures: "Kansas City Life building, Wyandotte County courthouse, the St. Joseph hospital, the public baths at [15th Street] and the Paseo, the Redemptorist church, the First National bank, the old New England bank, the Live Stock exchange, the exterior design of the Jackson County courthouse, the Nettleton home, St. Teresa's college and the W. W. Shields and H. F. Hall residences."
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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There Is No Limit: Architecture and Sculpture in Kansas City
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Description
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Biographical description of Thomas Wight, older brother in the architectural firm of Wight & Wight, born in Canada in 1874 and emigrating to Kansas City in 1904 before designing the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (pictured) and the First National Bank building here.
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Date
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1934
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Ersie Tarbell Obituary
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Description
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Obituary for Ersie Tarbell, a Kansas City architect with the Wight & Wight Company for 30 years before dying in 1968.
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Date
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1968-04-11
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Liberty Memorial Design Proposal #28
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Description
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Architectural rendering of the site layout included with the Liberty Memorial design proposal from Kansas City-based Thomas Wight and William Drewin Wight. According to Derek Donovan's Lest the Ages Forget: Kansas City's Liberty Memorial, their entry was awarded seventh place by the 1921 memorial jury. "Wight and Wight's designs placed a large obelisk in the middle of an array of six rectangular cultural center buildings."
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Date
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1921
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Liberty Memorial Design Proposal #29
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Description
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Architectural detail of the obelisk included with the Liberty Memorial design proposal from Kansas City-based Thomas Wight and William Drewin Wight. According to Derek Donovan's Lest the Ages Forget: Kansas City's Liberty Memorial, their entry was awarded seventh place by the 1921 memorial jury. "Wight and Wight's designs placed a large obelisk in the middle of an array of six rectangular cultural center buildings."
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Date
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1921
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Liberty Memorial Design Proposal #40
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Description
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Architectural rendering included with the Liberty Memorial design proposal from Kansas City-based Thomas Wight and William Drewin Wight. According to Derek Donovan's Lest the Ages Forget: Kansas City's Liberty Memorial, their entry was awarded seventh place by the 1921 memorial jury. "Wight and Wight's designs placed a large obelisk in the middle of an array of six rectangular cultural center buildings."
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Date
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1921
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Liberty Memorial Design Proposals Collection
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Description
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This one box, 15 folder collection contains 43 black and white photographs measuring 8" x 10" of various views of the entries that were submitted to the Liberty Memorial design contest. They are in the order in which they had been bound, leaving some folders with images from several different entrants. Each photograph is identified as to the designer. Date processed: June, 1998.
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Date
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1921
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Object Type
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Archival Material
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Title
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Live stock Exchange Building Blueprint
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Description
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Blueprint of the Live Stock Exchange Building's East Elevation (front view). Wilder and Wight are listed as architects on this blueprint.
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Date
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1909
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Object Type
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Archival Material
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Title
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Livestock Exchange Building Blueprint
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Description
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Blueprints of the first floor plan for the Livestock Exchange Building in the Kansas City Stockyards (part of a set of blueprints).
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Date
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1909-12-30
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Object Type
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Archival Material
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Title
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3800 Campbell Street
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Photograph circa 1980s of a single family home at 3800 Campbell Street, built in 1907 and designed by the architectural firm of Wight and Wight. Placed in 1978 on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Hyde Park Historic District and on the Kansas City Register of Historic Places as the L.R. Wright residence.
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Date
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1980~/1989~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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William Allen White House
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Description
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Photograph, description, and short history of the William Allen White House, ''Red Rocks,'' 927 Exchange Street, Emporia Kansas, remodeled by Kansas City architectural firm of Wight and Wight. White was a journalist and owner of the Emporia Daily Gazette.
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Date
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2005
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Big Plans for Historic Pickwick
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Description
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Article reports on a plan to to renovate the historic Pickwick hotel and bus terminal complex located between 9th and 10th streets on McGee. Overland Park developer Tom Smith wants to redevelop the complex as apartments and plans to begin construction in the spring of 2014. The Pickwick Hotel was built in the 1930s by the architectural firm of Wight & Wight. The building was converted into a housing development in the 1970s and closed in 2009.
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Date
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2013-09-19
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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The Sisters of St. Joseph
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Description
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Book section describes the history of St. Joseph Hospital. Background information related to the Sisters of St. Joseph is provided. The author states that St. Joseph Hospital was first opened on October 15, 1874, at the corner of 7th and Penn Streets and that it was the first hospital in Kansas City. The construction of a new hospital, located near the intersection of Linwood Boulevard and 31st Street, is described in detail. Information related to construction materials and furnishings of the new hospital is provided. Several photos are included.
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Date
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1917
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Object Type
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Book Section
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Title
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Fred Wolferman Residence
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Description
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Description and history of the Fred Wolferman residence designed in late 1922 by Wight & Wight in Kansas City. Includes drawings of the plans for first and second floors.
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Date
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2008
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Object Type
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Book Section
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