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Title
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Dixon Hotel
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Description
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National Register nomination form, item 7, page 1, for the Dixon Hotel at 1205 Baltimore Avenue.
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Object Type
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Report
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Title
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Dixon Hotel
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Description
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Information on the Dixon Hotel at 12th and Baltimore Avenues, demolished in 1985 to make way for One Kansas City Place, Kansas City's tallest building.
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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Dixon Hotel
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Description
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Postcard of the Dixon Hotel.
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Object Type
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Postcard
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Title
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Dixon Hotel
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Description
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Postcard showing the Dixon Hotel that once stood on the southeast corner of 12th Street and Baltimore Avenue.
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Date
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1932~
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Object Type
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Postcard
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Title
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Dixon Hotel and Johnny Kling
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Description
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Baseball player and owner, Johnny Kling, was also an expert billiards player. He opened a hotel in 1912 called the Hotel Dixon which advertised that it had 39 Kling specially designed tables. It was located at 12th and Baltimore in downtown Kansas City.
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Date
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2006
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Object Type
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Book Section
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Title
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Hotels in Kansas City
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Description
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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."
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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Book Seeks to Restore Cub's Great Jewish Heritage
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Description
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A new book entitled Johnny Kling: A Baseball Biography by Gil Bogen has recently been published. The author contends that Kling was Jewish although Kling's wife Lillian asserted he was not. Kling was a catcher for the Chicago Cubs from 1900-1911. He owned the Dixon Hotel in Kansas City and the Strand in Chillicothe, Missouri. He was also a professional billiards player as well as part owner of the Kansas City Blues baseball team.
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Date
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2006-04-07
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
