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Title: New Yorker Inn
Description: Nomination form for the National Register, item 7, pages 2-3, for the New Yorker Inn hotel at 1114 Baltimore Avenue.
Object Type: Report

Title: Hotel Closing News to Staff [and] Salvaged Art Work
Description: Photo and caption about the removal and preservation of griffins and other "terra cotta tile sculpture" from the Senator Hotel at 17 West 12th prior to its demolition and replacement by a parking lot. Also an article about the "sudden closing of the Hotel New Yorker" for renovations at 1114 Baltimore Avenue, opened in the 1920s as the Bray Hotel or Hotel Bray and changing names in 1948.
Date: 1973-11-22
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: John Martling
Description: Information on John Martling, an architect in Kansas City from 1886 to 1930 and a native of Neosho, Missouri. Description of his career, designing many residences and apartments (226 West 53rd Street in 1910, 3537 Harrison Avenue in 1910, 4204 Harrison Avenue in 1910, 1701 East 43rd Street in 1910, and 4325 Warwick Boulevard in 1908-1909), the New Yorker Hotel at 1114 Baltimore Avenue in 1915, and the Heim Brewery building on Union Avenue in 1905.
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Future: The Newsweekly for Today
Description: Issue of the anti-corruption, Kansas City-based newspaper, Future: The Newsweekly for Today. The front page includes an article, continued on pages 3 and 8, about the election frauds in Kansas City government, with a photo of fraudulent signatures in a precinct book and a photo of Gil Bourk, promoter of "permanent registration." Other featured articles include: “Missouri Valley Authority” (p. 2), about a proposed Missouri analog of the New Deal Tennessee Valley Authority; “Better Driving” (p. 2), a notice about the decrease in automobile-related deaths in Kansas City from 14 in 1934 to 5 in 1935; “Harlem Afternoon” (pp. 2 & 5), about the village of Harlem, Missouri, on the north side of the Missouri River across from Kansas City, including an interview of "Captain Kade," former pilot of the Annie Cade ferryboat during the 1903 flood; and “May We Present Mrs. Herbert V. Jones” (p. 5), a portrait and biographical article about Mrs. Herbert Jones, or Eleanor Jones, president of the Women's City Club at the Gate City Bank Building in 1921, president of the Consumers' League in 1922, president of the League of Women Voters in 1932, and general chairman of the Jackson County women's work committee in 1933; also included in the newspaper are advertisements for local businesses and articles on sports, fashion, finance, cooking, music, letters to the editor, and national and international news.
Date: 1935-02-01
Object Type: Newspaper

Title: SC123 D. M. Nigro Collection Finding Aid
Description: The D. M. Nigro Collection consists of publicity materials, correspondence, ephemera, and photographs created by or relating to Dr. D. M. Nigro of Kansas City. Nigro was a medical doctor, sports enthusiast, world traveler, photographer, and an active member of the Democratic Party and the Italian-American community. The collection includes approximately 500 photographs.
Date: 1944/1999
Object Type: Finding Aid

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