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Title
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Start on Hotel
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Description
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Addition of an 18-story structure to the existing hotel, making it the "largest hotel between Chicago and California."
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Date
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1954-12-22
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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A KC Landmark Goes Overlooked
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Description
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Article marking the 100th year of the Hotel Muehlebach at 12th and Baltimore. First opened in May 1915 on the former site of the old First Baptist Church, the 500-room, 12-story, $2 million hotel quickly became a social epicenter for locals and visitors alike, and remained so through the mid-20th century. The hotel's elegant decor, various restaurants, musical entertainment, and high service standards attracted famous names such as Helen Keller, Bob Hope, The Beatles, Theodore Roosevelt, and Harry Truman. The guest rooms are no longer in use, but the hotel's public spaces are frequently booked for events, and most of the areas have been preserved as they originally appeared.
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Date
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2015-04-21
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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The Hotels That Never Were
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Description
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Article provides a brief history of twentieth-century hotels in downtown Kansas City, including an analysis of some perceived business strategies of Hotel Muehlebach "impresario" Barney Allis.
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Date
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2005-08-01
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Concerning Various Citizens
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Description
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Photos and biographical sketches of George Muehlebach, president of the Muehlebach Brewing Company and other large interests, and born in Kansas City in 1881; Edward Winstanley, sheriff of Jackson County and born in Independence in 1882; and Barney Alisky, presumably the same man as Barney Allis, founder of Tavern Talk - the hotel paper of the Southwest - located at 910-912 Central Street.
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Date
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1915-05-15
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Object Type
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Magazine
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Title
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Leaders in Our Town
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Description
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Photo and bio of Barney Allis, a Kansas City hotelier, former owner of the Baltimore Hotel and present (1952) owner of the Hotel Muehlebach in Downtown Kansas City, with discussion of his troubles during the Great Depression.
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Date
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1952
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Object Type
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Book Section
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Title
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The Hotelier
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Description
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Article tells about Barney Allis, the prominent downtown Kansas City hotelier and owner of the Hotel Muehlebach from 1931 to 1962. Photos and description of his business advantages through friendship with banker William T. Kemper, his landmark hotel newsletter "Tavern Talk," his association with the Baltimore Hotel forever ending upon its sale in 1931, the renaming of the Vista Hotel as the Allis Plaza Hotel, in 1987 by owner and former associate of Allis, Pete Pistilli, etc.
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Date
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1989-04-30
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
