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Title: Legal Vacancy
Description: Article describing difficulties encountered in recent renovation plans for the Hotel President. The plan calls for the creation of a hotel, apartments, and retail space in the building; the article details developers' recent struggles with the tax-increment financing (TIF) commission in obtaining tax breaks for the project.
Date: 2002-07-18
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Kansas City Views and Buildings Featured in Harper's Weekly
Description: This two-page spread of engravings of views of Kansas City, Missouri, "from photographs by D. D. Thomson & Co.," was published as a supplement to Harper's Weekly, September 15, 1888, pages 702 and 703. It includes the New England Building; Board of Trade Building; Packing House District; YMCA Building; Post Office; New York Life Insurance Building; Kansas City Club House; entrance to the tunnel of the elevated railroad; The Junction at 9th and Main streets; 9th Street Cable Railway Incline; and the view "From the Tower of the Cathedral," centering on the Coates Hotel. The reverse side, pages 701 and 704 (not digitized), has the banner headline "The Gateway of Kansas" for an article written by William Willard Howard and includes engravings of the National Exposition Building; First Congregational Church; Warner Grand Opera House; head portraits of C. Ralph Evans, Manager of the National Exposition Company, Victor B. Buck, President of the National Exposition Company and Edward H. Allen [President of the Board of Trade]; and John Doggett's House.
Date: 1888
Object Type: Artwork

Title: Men of Affairs in Greater Kansas City, 1912: A Newspaper Reference Work
Description: Photo and bio of Edwin Winn, "president of the E. L. Winn Construction Company, 1211 Scarritt Building." Born in Bowling Green, Missouri in 1865 and coming to Kansas City in 1886 as a building contractor, "construct[ing] some of the best buildings in Kansas City, among them being the new addition to the Baltimore Hotel, the Metropolitan Power House, the Studebaker Building in the West Bottoms, the Smith Brothers Manufacturing Company's building in the East Bottoms, and the beautiful stone building on the Jackson County Farm."
Date: 1912
Object Type: Book

Title: Kansas City Power and Light Building
Description: Black and white print of a photograph mounted on foam core (20 x 24 in.) of the Kansas City Power and Light building during construction. Looking north along Baltimore from 15th Street. Also shows the Hotel President, R.P. Rice and other nearby buildings. "December 27, 1930. Photograph No. 24" is printed at the bottom of the photograph. The Kansas City Power and Light Building, located on the northwest corner of Baltimore and 14th Street, was completed in 1931 and designed by the architectural firm, Hoit, Price & Barnes. A 97-foot tower sitting atop a 32-story building made this structure the tallest building in the state of Missouri at the time. It housed the Kansas City Power and Light Company until 1992.
Date: 1930-12-27
Object Type: Archival Material

Title: New York Life Building
Description: Postcard of the New York Life Building on 9th Street at Baltimore Avenue.
Object Type: Postcard

Title: Elks' Club Building
Description: Postcard of the Elk's Club Building that once stood at 7th Street and Grand Avenue.
Object Type: Postcard

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