1886 KANSAS CITY MISSOURI BILLHEAD & VOUCHER KEYSTONE IRON WORKS TO UNION DEPOT
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1886 KANSAS CITY MISSOURI BILLHEAD & VOUCHER KEYSTONE IRON WORKS TO UNION DEPOT SIGNED BY KANSAS RAILROAD BARON GEORGE NETTLETON PRESIDENT OF THE UNION DEPOT. 2 PCS • MANUFACTURERES AND DEALERS IN REFINED PETROLEUM, GASOLINE, NAPTHA & BENZINE • ALL GRADES OF LUBRICATING OIL • MACHINERY AND ORNAMENTAL IRON AND BRASS WORK • STEAM ENGINES AND RAILROAD CASTINGS • 1000-1026 WEST 8TH ST. • SOLD TO UNION DEPOT • NETTLETON WAS THE PRESIDENT AND FOUNDER OF THE UNION DEPOT STATION IN KANSAS CITY AND LATER THE PRESIDENT OF THE FT. SCOTT & MEMPHIS RAILROAD. • NICE PIECE OF EARLY KANSAS RAILROAD HISTORY. • NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH THE CURRENT UNION STATION Union Depot Union Avenue completed 1878, demolished 1915 by Susan Jezak Ford When Union Depot was built in Kansas City?s West Bottoms, it was frequently called the ?Jackson County Insane Asylum? by those who believed that the city would never have a need for such a large train station. It did not take long, however, for the city to outgrow the immense, new showplace. Kansas City was home to 60,000 citizens when the depot was built in 1878. The fashionable, elegant building replaced a two-room structure designed by Octave Chanute. The site for Union Depot was acquired from early Kansas City leaders Kersey Coates and William H. Hopkins. In 1869 the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad, the first railroad to reach Kansas City, purchased part of the site for railroad tracks from the two property owners. The Missouri River and Gulf Railroad bought more land from the men in 1870 for Kansas City?s first train station. The city condemned 6.5 additional acres for the new Union Depot in 1878. Altogether, the depot building?the second Union Depot in the country?and the adjoining land cost the city $300,000. (St. Louis was the first city where the various railroad companies decided to locate their terminal facilities in one location.) The ornate Union Depot was built parallel to the bluffs of the West Bottoms and stood between the railroad tracks and Union Avenue. As one approached the station from the upper elevation of downtown Kansas City, the towers of the depot recalled the faraway skylines of Paris, Vienna, or Berlin. ?It is one of the most picturesque and attractive buildings in the United States,? The Kansas City Star reporter wrote. The writer went on to describe the building as designed in the Renaissance style and ?somewhat Frenchy? with its mansard roof and Parisian towers. ?The architect has given us the handsomest and most pleasing union of two of the most pleasing styles in modern architecture,? he concluded. The depot opened for business on April 8, 1878. ORIGINAL, LETTERHEADS, BILLHEAD, BILLHEADS, HARDWARE. NORMAL AGING FOR THIS PERIOD, I AM PRICED MANY TIMES LOWER THAN MOST SELLERS ON EBAY.
