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Title: Kansas City Then & Now
Description: Photos and description of the change in the structures and streets at the intersection of Main, Delaware, and 9th Streets (formerly known as the Junction and removed of Delaware Street) from just after the Civil War (with only wooden buildings) to the Diamond Building (built about 1870 by Samuel Vaughan), its replacement about 1915 by the Westgate Hotel (demolished in 1954 with the street straightening), and replacement by the Muse of the Missouri fountain, TenMain Center, and Commerce Tower in the late 1900s.
Date: 2000
Object Type: Book

Title: Westgate Hotel
Description: The hotel was built around 1915 on the former site of the old Diamond Building that was built in 1870 and later bought by the Kansas City Times in 1883.
Date: 1925-09-06
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: The Junction
Description: Looking north along Main Street from 10th Street at the Junction area of Main, Delaware, and 9th streets. Business in view includes J. T. Welden, Undertaker. Also has view of what appears to be a delivery wagon and street railway tracks.
Date: 1884
Object Type: Photograph

Title: The Junction
Description: Early view looking north of Main Street and Vaughan's Diamond Building at the junction of Main, 9th, and Delaware.
Date: 1875
Object Type: Photograph

Title: The Junction
Description: Looking north from the west side of Main at the Junction area of 9th Street, Delaware Street, and Main Street. Cable car in view in street in front of the Vaughan's Diamond Building. Cable car says East 7th St. and Union Depot and is Number 32.
Date: 1886
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Junction of Main and Delaware
Description: View looking north of the junction of Main and Delaware streets at 9th Street. Vaughn's Diamond Building and several horse drawn carts can be seen. Signs for S. D. Vaughn and Company, Security Life Insurance Company, Kansas City Business College, and H. Ganz and Brothers Clothing are in view.
Date: 1871
Object Type: Photograph

Title: The Junction
Description: Full frontal and side view of Vaughan's Diamond Building; located at the intersection of 9th, Main, and Delaware at the Junction.
Date: 1870
Object Type: Photograph

Title: The Junction
Description: Postcard of The Junction of Main and Delaware streets at 9th Street.
Object Type: Postcard

Title: The Junction
Description: Distant view looking north along Main from 10th; located at intersection of 9th, Main, and Delaware.
Date: 1870
Object Type: Photograph

Title: The Junction
Description: Junction of Delaware and Main Streets.
Date: 1890
Object Type: Photograph

Title: The Junction
Description: View of Vaughan's Diamond Building, once located at the junction of Main and Delaware streets.
Date: 1900
Object Type: Photograph

Title: The Junction
Description: Full frontal view of Vaughan's Diamond Building, showing Kansas City Business College as tenant, with street cars in foreground.
Date: 1877
Object Type: Photograph

Title: The Junction
Description: View of the junction of Delaware and Main Streets showing Vaughan's Diamond Building, streetcars, and signs for The Kansas City Times and Keith Furniture & Carpet Company.
Date: 1890
Object Type: Photograph

Title: The Junction
Description: Framed (14" x 16") black and white photograph (8" x 10") of the Kansas City downtown area referred to as The Junction located at 9th, Main, and Delaware streets. View is looking toward the north down Main Street. The inscription on the frame reads: "The Junction at Ninth & Main streets in 1869." Vaughan's Diamond building is in view.
Date: 1869
Object Type: Archival Material

Title: The Junction, 9th and Main Streets
Description: Postcard of The Junction, 9th and Main Streets
Date: 1913~
Object Type: Postcard

Title: The Junction
Description: Full frontal and side view of Vaughan's Diamong Building.
Date: 1880
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Vaughan's Diamond Building
Description: Commonly called The Junction, the Vaughan's Diamond Building was built by Major Samuel D. Vaughan on lots 3 and 4 purchased in 1865 from Scarritt and lots 1 and 2 (for $500) in 1866. The building was completed in 1870 at a cost of $40,000. Vaughan's building was sold in 1872 to Howard M. Holden for $31,790 at a sheriff's sale. The Kansas City Times newspaper bought it in 1883 for $85,000. The Times put up another building on lots 5 and 6, that was occupied in November 1885. In June 1886 both buildings were sold to Nathaniel Thayer of Boston for $300,000 and torn down for the Westgate Hotel to open on May 15, 1916.
Date: 1954-03-28
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: History of Missouri in Words of One Syllable
Description: Illustration of the Kansas City Times Building, also known as the Diamond Building or Vaughan's Diamond Building.
Date: 1889
Object Type: Book

Title: Vaughan's Diamond Building, The Junction, Profile
Date: 1999

Title: Lost America: From the Mississippi to the Pacific
Description: Building "commanding the street scene from its unusual site," standing from 1869-1890.
Date: 1972
Object Type: Book

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