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Title: Aladdin Hotel
Description: Aladdin Hotel building at 1213 Wyandotte Street nomination form for the National Register, item 7, pages 2-3. Also includes an Aladdin Hotel guest statement dated February 17, 1949. Rooms were $3.00 a night.
Object Type: Report

Title: Aladdin Hotel
Description: Frontal and side view of the Aladdin Hotel; located at 1211 Wyandotte Street. Hotel's letterhead and logo are located on the back of photograph #32.
Date: 1928~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Aladdin Hotel Comeback Set
Description: The Aladdin Hotel located at 1215 Wyandotte in downtown Kansas City is set to open again on May 4, 2007. "The event will mark the 193-room, 16-story tower's second go-round as a Holiday Inn franchise after two stints as Embassy on the Park, a stretch under the Days Inn flag, and most recently as the independent Citi Centre Plaza Hotel when it was last closed in February 2004." The hotel opened in 1925 and the exterior and lobby have been restored to that time period including its polished marble pillars, checkerboard marble floor and brass railings. The historic Zebra Room will be open and the hotel offers 3,000 square feet of top floor ballroom and meeting space.
Date: 2007-04-27
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Old Aladdin Makes a Wish: TIF For Rehab
Description: The 80-year-old Aladdin Hotel located at 1215 Wyandotte is to be remodeled and opened in early 2007. The hotel known as the Citi Centre Plaza has been closed since February 2004. Wright Investment Properties Inc. is going before the TIF Commission at their Dec. 14, 2005, meeting to try and get a subsidy for $4.65 million or about one third of the $15 million cost. The hotel has 195 rooms and hopes to affiliate with Holiday Inn and be a "midservice, midscale" hotel, cheaper than the downtown Marriott and the Hilton.
Date: 2005-12-09
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Downtown KC Hotel Could Return as a Holiday Inn
Description: Article reporting a Memphis-based company's plans to renovate and reopen the Aladdin Hotel, located at 1215 Wyandotte Street, as the Aladdin Holiday Inn. Wright Investment Properties, Inc. has plans to restore the hotel to its "historically accurate roots," including the return of the Zebra Lounge as a downtown night spot.
Date: 2005-12-13
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Little Hotels, Big Problem
Description: Review of the lack of more than 2,000 hotel rooms within walking distance of the convention center, thus limiting the number of covention Kansas City can host. Some say that the smaller hotels around Barney Allis Plaza, like the Hotel Phillips, Aladdin, Hilton President, grab a vital market share but are too small to help the convention market grow. Article includes a comparison chart with other US cities and a map with downtown area hotels.
Date: 2007-07-17
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Hotels in Kansas City
Description: The file includes articles about various Kansas City hotels and a copy of the National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination Form for "Hotels in the Downtown Area of Kansas City."
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: SC164 KCPL Reference Hard to Find Collection Finding Aid
Description: The materials within the KCPL Reference Hard to Find (HTF) Collection were compiled by Kansas City Public Library reference librarians and staff members to provide an easy to access source of information concerning topics of local and regional interest. The collection primarily consists of newspaper and magazine clippings, pamphlets, brochures, other forms of printed material, and typed notecards.
Date: 1980/2005
Object Type: Finding Aid

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