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Title: Baltimore Hotel
Description: Full frontal and side view; located on southeast corner of 11th & Baltimore.
Date: 1895
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Muehlebach Hotel
Description: Full frontal and side view, looking southeast.
Date: 1955
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Municipal Auditorium
Description: Full view of Auditorium Plaza Garage, looking southeast from the northwest corner.
Date: 1950~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Pacific House Hotel
Description: Full frontal and side view; located on southeast corner of 4th and Delaware.
Date: 1869
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Cordova Hotel
Description: Partial frontal and side view; located at southeast corner of 12th and Pennsylvania.
Date: 1989
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Mercer Hotel
Description: Full frontal and side view; located on southeast corner of 12th and McGee.
Date: 1920
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Washington Hotel
Description: Full frontal and side view; located at southeast corner of 12th and Washington.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Town House Hotel
Description: Full frontal and partial side view; located on southeast corner of 7th Street Trafficway and State Avenue in Kansas City, Kansas.
Date: 1950
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Dixon Hotel
Description: Postcard showing the Dixon Hotel that once stood on the southeast corner of 12th Street and Baltimore Avenue.
Date: 1932~
Object Type: Postcard

Title: Metropolitan Hotel
Description: Street view of the Metropolitan Hotel located at 5th and May, southeast corner. Also known as â€œThe City hotelâ€ according to the scrapbook newspaper clipping. Identified in scrapbook as â€œMetropolitanâ€.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Milner Hotel and Savoy Grill
Description: Street view of the Milner Hotel (formerly the Savoy Hotel), the Savoy Grill (209 W. 9th Street), and other businesses near the southeast corner of 9th and Central. Other businesses shown include Frisco's Cafe, C & O Distributing Co., and the Newby Sign Company.
Date: 1950~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Coates House Hotel
Description: Photograph features the Coates House Hotel building, looking southeast, at the corner of 10th Street and Broadway Boulevard. To the east on 10th Street, the Kansas City Custom Garment Co. building is also visible. As of 2010, the building houses the sales offices of Quality Hill Condos, with apartment dwellings on the upper levels.
Date: 1964-07-21
Object Type: Negative

Title: 43rd Street Area
Description: View of 43rd Street area north of the Country Club Plaza and west of Main Street, looking toward the southeast. The St. Luke's Hospital parking garage is in view with the twin American Century building behind it. The Embassy Suites hotel is on the left. The area is part of what is referred to as the Steptoe community, a former African American neighborhood, just south of Westport and bounded by Broadway Boulevard, Summit Street, and 43rd Terrace.
Date: 2001-07-07
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Empire Bank to Expand
Description: Photo and article about the planned demolition of "[t]wo old 3-story buildings between Central street and Broadway on [9th Street]" (including the Morgan Hotel and the Bigus Bag company building) to make way "for a new Empire State bank headquarters and parking lot." Description of the bank president, Charles Hipsh, and his father Harry Hipsh, an emigrant to Kansas City in 1898 from Russia, establishing "a dry goods store about 510-14 West [9th Street]" and co-founding "the Kansas City Cap Manufacturing company at the southeast corner of [9th Street] and Broadway."
Date: 1971-02-07
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Centropolis Hotel
Description: Street level view looking northwest at the southeast corner of 5th and Grand. The Centropolis, built in 1880, was the first hotel in Kansas City to install electric lighting. "As Kansas City moved southward and new hotels were built, the old Centropolis gradually faded. In later years only part of the imposing structure was used as a hotel" as shown in this photograph. For more about the hotel see this postcard and accompanying historical article http://www.kchistory.org/u?/Mrs,1292.
Date: 1940
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Baltimore Hotel
Description: Postcard of the Baltimore Hotel that once stood on Baltimore Avenue between 11th and 12th streets.
Object Type: Postcard

Title: Washington Hotel
Description: Postcard of the Washington Hotel that once stood on the southwest corner of 12th and Washington streets at night.
Object Type: Postcard

Title: The Harris House Story as Related by Frank C. Wornall in 1950
Description: History of the Harris Home, starting with the arrival of the Harris family in Westport in 1832 and tracing through the changes of ownership and preservation of the hotel and house.
Date: 1970-06
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: The Leading Hotels of Kansas City
Description: Book illustrating Kansas City's "ability to comfortably care for the Repubican National Convention of 1908" with photos and drawings of hotels and other convention-related institutions.
Date: 1910
Object Type: Book

Title: Baltimore Hotel
Description: Postcard of the Baltimore Hotel.
Object Type: Postcard

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