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Title: President Hotel Interior
Description: Interior view of men and women attending Democratic County Committee luncheon.
Date: 1950-10-13
Object Type: Photograph

Title: President Hotel Interior
Description: Interior view of men and women attending the 75th anniversary banquet for the Mid-Continent Regional Office of the Prudential Life Insurance Company's Mortgage Loan and Real Estate Mortgage Department.
Date: 1950-10-13
Object Type: Photograph

Title: President Hotel Interior
Description: Interior view of men, women, and children attending Burroughs' Family Night.
Date: 1948-11-06
Object Type: Photograph

Title: President Hotel Interior
Description: Interior view of men and women attending Borden's Safety Award Dinner.
Date: 1951-01-13
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Saving the President Hotel
Description: Article chronicles the process of saving the President Hotel from destruction, starting in the early 1990s when the Historic Kansas City Foundation placed the hotel on its "Endangered Building List" and culminating with its opening in January 2006 as the Hilton President Kansas City.
Date: 2006
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: President Hotel Owner Faces Deadline
Description: Developer Robert D. Jury cites difficulties in obtaining private financing in delays in developing the President Hotel. Jury stands to lose tax incentives if he fails to move ahead by August 31, 2003.
Date: 2003-07-05
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: President Jimmy Carter
Description: President Jimmy Carter and William C. Speidel, General Manager of the Radisson Muehlebach Hotel, in the lobby of that hotel. Other individuals in the photograph are unidentified.
Date: 1979-10
Object Type: Negative

Title: Building in Danger! Update: President Hotel
Description: Article about the President Hotel at 1327 Baltimore Avenue, built in 1925, in danger of demolition despite designation as a Historic Place on the National Register.
Date: 1994
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: President Jimmy Carter
Description: President Jimmy Carter shaking hands with William C. Speidel, General Manager of the Radisson Muehlebach Hotel located in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. The Carters stayed at the hotel while President Carter was in town to address the National Conference of Catholic Charities.
Date: 1979-10-15
Object Type: Photograph

Title: President Jimmy Carter Visit
Description: The back of First Lady Rosalyn Carter is shown shaking hands with William C. Speidel. His name tag denotes him as General Manager. The Carters stayed at the Radisson Muehlebach Hotel on their stay in Kansas City where President Carter addressed the National Conference of Catholic Charities. Collection also has a color photograph of this pose.
Date: 1979-10-15
Object Type: Photograph

Title: No-Tell Hotel
Description: Article describing Kansas City's attempts to revitalize the Downtown area through tax increment financing (TIF). The article examines convention activity vis-à-vis the possible restoration of the President Hotel.
Date: 2002-08-22
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: The Jury Is In: Kansas City's Hotel President Restoration, a Presidential Success
Description: Article gives history of the President Hotel, now the Hilton President Hotel, a 12 story building at 1329-1335 Baltimore. Originally the hotel opened in February, 1926, with 453 guest rooms and 19 private rooms. The architects were Shepard and Wiser. Includes a description of the bell hop at the main entrance, main lobby and mezzanine, Drum Room, Walnut Room, Aztec Room, guest rooms, ballroom and rooftop sign.
Date: 2006
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Hotel President: Good Food, Walnut Room, Coffee Shop, Rounup Cocktail Bar
Description: Illustration and ad for the "Hotel President" or President Hotel (shown next to the Kansas City Power & Light Building and Municipal Auditorium) at 14th and Baltimore Avenues with its own restaurant, the Walnut Room, and Roundup Cocktail Bar.
Date: 1936-12
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Meet the NEW President: Kansas City's Most Famous Historic Hotel Returns
Description: Article discusses a brief history of the hotel and the renovations made since the reopening in 2006.
Date: 2009
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Midland Hotel
Description: Photos, illustrations, and information on the Midland Hotel, built in 1888 at 7th and Walnut Streets (705 Walnut Street) and later used as the Railway Exchange office building before being demolished in 1966.
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Drum Roll Please
Description: Color photograph of the restored entry of the Drum Room of the now historic Hilton President Kansas City Hotel that reopened in June 2006.
Date: 2006-08-01
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Drum Roll, Please, as Dining Spot is Reborn
Description: After being closed for 25 years, the Drum Room in the Hotel President is due to open on May 10, 2006. The restaurant opened in 1941 and such celebrities as Frank Sinatra, Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, the Marx Brothers and Sammy Davis, Jr. performed there. "It has been rebuilt with a contemporary interior design that honors its past with black-and-white photographs of jazz greats and a restored 280-square-foot mural of South Sea islanders that was painted for the room in 1941 by New York artist Winold Reiss." Article includes a picture of the interior of the room as well as the Drum Room sign on the outside of the hotel.
Date: 2006-05-06
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: George Sochre
Description: Frontal portrait of Chef George Sochre with poultry.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: George Sochre
Description: Portrait of Chef George Sochre carving poultry.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Research Hospital Nurses Home
Description: Interior view of guests at Research Hospital Nurses Home's Junior-Senior Banquet held at President Hotel.
Date: 1949-03-12
Object Type: Photograph

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