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Title: United Chemical Company
Description: Photo and history of the building, by 1950 the home of the United Chemical Company, "having originally been the famous Pacific Hotel of Civil War days, among whose guests were numbered Gran, Lincoln and other makers of United States history."
Date: 1950
Object Type: Book Section

Title: Historic Kansas City Architecture
Description: Photo and short description of the Pacific House hotel at 401-407 Delaware Street, headquarters of General Ewing in the Civil War, designed by architect Asa Beebe Cross.
Date: 1975
Object Type: Book

Title: Pacific House Hotel
Description: Brief description given of the Pacific House hotel in a nomination form for the National Register, item 7, page 3.
Object Type: Report

Title: The Industries of Kansas City: Facts, Figures and Illustrations
Description: Origin and general description of the building at 4th and Delaware Streets, built in 1860.
Date: 1879
Object Type: Book

Title: Pacific House
Description: Corner and street view of the Pacific House hotel building located at 4th and Delaware. Identified in scrapbook as â€œPalatial Pacific Houseâ€.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Order Number 11
Description: Article about the writing by General Ewing of "Order Number 11" in the Pacific House hotel.
Date: 2002-11-06
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Pacific House Hotel
Description: Drawings of the hotel at 4th and Delaware, built in ca1861, with discussion about other old hotels.
Date: 1905-02-05
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Pacific House Hotel
Description: Full frontal and side view; located on southeast corner of 4th and Delaware.
Date: 1869
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Pacific House Hotel
Description: Front frontal and partial side view; shows Afterglow as ground floor tenant.
Date: 1989
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Pacific House Hotel
Description: Full frontal and side view.
Date: 1915
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Pacific House
Description: Photograph of the Pacific House Hotel building at 401 Delaware Street. Rebuilt after 1868 fire, the building is believed to have been designed by architect Asa Beebe Cross and operated as a hotel for many decades. The original building, from circa 1860, was used as a Union headquarters during the Civil War. A sign for Metzner Stove and Furnace Supply Company hangs toward the rear of the building, and a sign for After Glow nightclub hangs in the front ground floor window. Both buildings were closed by January 1992.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Sanborn Map, Kansas City, Vol. 1, 1895-1907, Page p004
Description: Northern edge of early Kansas City riverfront area from West 4th Street south to West 6th Street and from Central east to Main, showing additions, buildings and streets.
Date: 1895/1907
Object Type: Map

Title: Historic Tax Credits Enable Rehabs of Historic Buildings
Description: Article describes how tax credits helped Dale Schulte redevelop the Pacific House Hotel as apartments for low-income renters. When Schulte purchased the property in the late 1990s, it had been empty for many years and was in poor repair.
Date: 2008-07-04
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Gone But Not Forgotten
Description: A short synopsis of the life of John Hall, one of Kansas City's earliest residents, and Hinton H. Noland, a prominent citizen in Independence as well as Kansas City. Hall came to Kansas City in 1857 and had built the Pacific House Hotel in the late 1850s. During the Civil War, the hotel was a military barracks, and in Room 20, Orders No. 10 and 11 were issued. Noland served many years in various court capacities mainly in Independence. Noland Road is named after him. Article includes names of immediate descendants.
Date: 2002
Object Type: Magazine Article