Dates: 1943-1979
The papers of Benjamin F. Weinberg include correspondence, press clippings, memorabilia, photographs, financial and legal documents, and other items concerning Weinberg's life and his business endeavors.
Size: 5 linear inches (about 200 pages).
Access: Open.
Copyright: The donor gave its copyright interest in writings in this collection, and in any other collection in the custody of the National Archives and Records Administration, to the United States of America. Documents created by U.S. Government employees in the course of their official duties are in the public domain. Copyright interest in other documents in this collection presumably belongs to the creators of those documents, or their heirs.
Processed by: Susanna DeHaven (2017) as part of the Truman Library Internship Program.
Supervising Archivists: Randy Sowell and David Clark.
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Benjamin F. Weinberg was born on November 10, 1892, in Kansas City, Missouri. He served in the U.S. Army during World War I. Weinberg met Harry S. Truman in Le Mans, France, shortly after the war, and they formed a lifelong friendship.
Weinberg was involved in manufacturing automobile brakes and in other business enterprises. Eventually, he became the owner of a chain of hotels, including the Park Lane Hotel in Denver, the Lankershim Hotel in Los Angeles, the Capitol Hotel in Amarillo, and the Kansas Citian Hotel in Kansas City. In 1958, he purchased a 220-acre tract of land in Grandview, Missouri, from Mr. and Mrs. Harry S. Truman. The land became the site of the Truman Corners shopping center. Weinberg died in 1970.
The papers of Benjamin F. Weinberg include correspondence, press clippings, memorabilia, photographs, financial and legal documents, and other items concerning Weinberg's life and business endeavors. The collection consists of one series, a Subject File.
The collection contains correspondence with President Harry S. Truman, consisting of brief missives from Truman. Press clippings detail various aspects of Weinberg's life and business ventures, especially his hotel acquisitions in Kansas City. Also included are photographs of him with President Truman; various items recalling hotel events (particularly at the Park Lane and Kansas Citian Hotels); and a number of financial and legal documents relating to the Triangle Investment Company, the firm Weinberg established to develop the land he purchased from Mr. and Mrs. Truman in Grandview, Missouri. These materials include a real estate contract, stock certificates, a lease, a personal financial statement, and copies of checks payable to Harry S. Truman.
More information about Weinberg can be found at the Truman Library in the Harry S. Truman Post-Presidential Papers.
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SUBJECT FILE, 1943-1979 Correspondence, press clippings, memorabilia, photographs, financial and legal documents, and other items concerning Weinberg's life and his business endeavors. Arranged alphabetically by folder title and thereunder chronologically. |
Box 1
- Correspondence -- Truman, Harry S.
- Invitation
- Newspaper Clippings
- Personal
- Photographs
- Scrapbook
- Stanley Gold Mines Company
- Triangle Investment Company