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Title
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Union Bus Terminal and Pickwick Hotel
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Description
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Postcard 71: - Union Bus Terminal and Pickwick Hotel. 10th and McGee Street. Kansas City, Mo. Numbered 44027
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Object Type
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Postcard
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Title
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Sanborn Map, Kansas City, Vol. 1, 1939-1958, Page p022
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Description
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A portion of Kansas City from E. 9th Street south to E. 11th Street and from McGee east to Oak, showing buildings and streets. Large numbers at edges of page refer to page with adjoining area.
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Date
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1939/1958
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Pickwick Hotel
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Description
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View looking toward the northeast of the Pickwick Hotel located on the east side of McGee Street between 9th and 10th streets in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. The Union Bus Terminal sign is also visible on the building.
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Date
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1930~
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Object Type
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Negative
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Title
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Interurban Central Station Company
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Description
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Folder contains a pamphlet from the Committee of One Hundred (1909), project report which includes maps, and photograph connected with the proposed office building, hotel and bus terminal for the Interurban Central Station Company. The vertical files in this collection were formerly a part of the department's regular vertical files.
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Date
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1929
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Object Type
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Archival Material
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Title
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Developer Devises New Plan For Vacant Hotel
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Description
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Gold Crown Properties of Overland Park is making an attempt to redevelop the historic Pickwick block of downtown Kansas City. The hotel sits between 9th and 10 streets and faces McGee. With the aid of tax incentives, the $35 million project would convert the 10-story hotel into 219 apartments and the 7-story office building into 59 units of senior housing. If plans are approved, construction would begin next summer with the apartments completed in 2012.
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Date
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2010-09-17
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Big Plans for Historic Pickwick
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Description
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Article reports on a plan to to renovate the historic Pickwick hotel and bus terminal complex located between 9th and 10th streets on McGee. Overland Park developer Tom Smith wants to redevelop the complex as apartments and plans to begin construction in the spring of 2014. The Pickwick Hotel was built in the 1930s by the architectural firm of Wight & Wight. The building was converted into a housing development in the 1970s and closed in 2009.
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Date
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2013-09-19
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Move Buoys Hopes for Hotel
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Description
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A proposal by the city council's housing committee to remove federall low-income restrictions could make it easier to sell the Pickwick Hotel. The complex at McGee between 9th and 10th streets has sat empty since early 2009.
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Date
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2009-06-04
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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The Place Where All Men Strive To Be: Harry S. Truman on the Eve of the 1934 Senate Campaign
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Description
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Two-part series detailing Harry S. Truman's early political career including his two terms as Presiding Judge of Jackson County, Missouri. In the early 1930s Truman "began to write long memorandums to himself, or to posterity." Because he wrote his notes on stationery from the Pickwick Hotel, they are sometimes called the "Pickwick Papers." Article talks about Thomas J. Pendergast as the Democratic political boss of Kansas City and with whose support Truman declared candidacy for the Senate in 1934, his first political office, and won.
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Date
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2004
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
