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Title: President Hotel
Description: Nomination form for the National Register, item 7, page 4, for the President Hotel.
Object Type: Report

Title: President Hotel
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Hotel President
Description: Photograph of lobby of the Hotel President, probably taken in 1920s.
Date: 2006-03
Object Type: Magazine Article

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: 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: Centropolis Hotel
Description: A postcard of the Centropolis Hotel that once stood on the northwest corner of 5th Street and Grand Avenue.
Date: 1906~
Object Type: Postcard

Title: Hotel Phillips
Description: Postcard of the Hotel Phillips.
Object Type: Postcard

Title: Glennon Hotel
Description: Postcard of the Glennon Hotel that once stood at 12th Street and Baltimore Avenue.
Object Type: Postcard

Title: Washington Hotel
Description: Postcard of the Washington Hotel that once stood on the southwest corner of 12th and Washington streets at night.
Object Type: Postcard

Title: Dixon Hotel
Description: Postcard of the Dixon Hotel.
Object Type: Postcard

Title: Baltimore Hotel
Description: Postcard of the Baltimore Hotel, 11th Street entrance
Date: 1907
Object Type: Postcard

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