The Sexton Hotel, at 15 & 17 West 12th Street, was first listed in City Directories in 1907. A Kansas City Journal Post story of June 16, 1909, stated: The company which yesterday purchased the Sexton Hotel probably will be known as the Dixon Hotel Co. and will include William H. Dixon, Charles L. Wood and two others. Col. Samuel Billings, who had conducted the hotel for two years transferred his lease on the hotel to Dixon for a consideration of $50,000 and that included fixtures and furnishings. Dixon told newsmen: It's the best place in town for a hotel. I expect to renovate and increase the size to 350 rooms. The old Sexton was the favorite stopping place for cattlemen. The postcard, in color, was furnished by the daughter of one. Mrs. C.S. Gillmor, widow of the well-known Kansas City physician, tells how her father, E.B. Noland, shipped two or three train loads of cattle every year to Kansas City from his ranch at Saguache, Col., in the San Luis Valley. The cattle loaded at Moffatt, then by D&RG Railroad through Salida and Pueblo, stopped at the feed yards in Osawatomie, Kan., and then came on in by Missouri Pacific Railroad to the Kansas City stockyards for the early Monday morning market. The men traveling with the cattle always stayed at the Sexton Hotel, according to Mrs. Gillmor. Located on the 12th Street carline, it was close to the yards. For years after Dixon's purchase of the old Sexton, city directories and local telephone books carried listings of addresses and telephone numbers, alike for both hotels. Today One Kansas City Place, Kansas City's tallest building, is being erected on this choice site. Kansas City Times, August 9, 1985.
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