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Title
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Cordova Hotel
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Description
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Corner view photograph of the Cordova Hotel. John George Braecklein is listed as the architect.
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Date
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1901-01
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Object Type
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Magazine
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Title
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Carmody Family Memorabilia to Society
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Description
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Information about the Carmody family,"formerly of Independence," including their ownership in the 1870s of "one of the five hotels in Independence, 'The Twyman House,'" later called the Commercial Hotel.
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Date
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1971
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Object Type
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Magazine
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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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A Family Tradition
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Description
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The "Name Dropping" column features Kevin Pistilli and Cynthia Pistilli Savage, son and daughter of Philip Pistilli, manager of the Hotel Muehlebach for many years. Both Kevin and Cynthia are associated with the Raphael Hotel, she as general manager and he as president as the Raphael Hotel Group. They reminiscence about their father and the hotel business. Includes an image.
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Date
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2002-05-25
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Object Type
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Magazine
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Title
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Blossom Mansion Lives as Business House
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Description
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Report on the preservation and remodeling of the Blossom House hotel at 1032 Pennsylvania Avenue, "built in 1882 in the style of the Chicago School," with its history and biographical information on its builder along with the Union Depot Hotel, Major George Newton Blossom, or George Blossom. Description of the history of the site of 11th and Pennsylvania Avenues from the 1830s, starting with Kansas City's "first Catholic church" ministered by Father Benedict Roux.
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Date
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1972-03
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Object Type
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Magazine
