Kansas City Landmarks Slide Collection

Title: Unidentified West Plaza Apartment Building
Description: Photograph of an unidentified apartment building circa 1986. The Plaza West office building, at 4600 Madison Avenue, can be seen in in the upper left edge of the image.
Date: 1986~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Knickerbocker Apartments demolition
Description: Photograph circa 1982 documenting the demolition of 500 Knickerbocker Place, part of the Knickerbocker Apartments on the north side of Knickerbocker Place. The block of apartments were razed in 1982 for a Kansas City Life Insurance Company expansion project. The twin building on the south side of the street was still standing as of 2018. Both were built circa 1910 and designed by architect Leon Grant Middaugh. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.
Date: 1982~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 48th Street Apartments
Description: Photograph of apartment buildings on the south side of 48th Street, looking west to Belleview Avenue, circa 1988. The buildings were later demolished for a highrise office development.
Date: 1988~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 1813-1823 West 39th Street
Description: Photograph of buildings spanning 1813-1823 West 39th Street, circa 1990. Cafe Allegro, at 1815 W. 39th, and Jimmy's Jigger bar, at the southwest corner of 39th and State Line Road, are among the businesses pictured. These commercial buildings, and the other on 39th Street between Bell and State Line, were dubbed Jamestown Square in the late 1980s, and were subject to redevelopment plans for the buildings and surrounding streetscape and parking lots. University of Kansas Medical Center buildings are visible in the background of the image.
Date: 1990~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Manor Hall
Description: Photograph of the Manor Hall building at 3848 Troost Avenue circa 1979. National Bedding Mart is in the ground-level storefront.
Date: 1979~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 1801 West 39th Street
Description: Photograph of buildings and storefronts from the southwest corner of 39th and Bell Streets to 39th and State Line Road, circa 1990, including Don Pepe Cafe and Cafe Allegro. A University of Kansas Medical Center building stands in the background, across State Line.
Date: 1990~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Thomas Carlyle Apartments
Description: Photograph of the Thomas Carlyle Apartments building at 700 Ward Parkway circa 1990. Construction began on the building, designed by local architect Nelle E. Peters, in 1928. It belonged to a complex of buildings called the Poet Apartment Buildings, consisting of seven residential buildings named after literary figures including Carlyle, Mark Twain and Robert Louis Stevenson.
Date: 1990~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Knickerbocker North Apartments
Description: Photograph of the Knickerbocker Apartments, on the north side of Knickerbocker Place at 530 Knickerbocker Place, during their demolition. The north apartments were razed beginning in late August, 1982, to make room for a Kansas City Life Insurance Company expansion project. The twin building on the south side of the street was still standing as of 2018. Both were built circa 1910 and designed by architect Leon Grant Middaugh. The tower visible at the top left of the photograph stands atop another Kansas City Life building, just north of the apartments.
Date: 1982
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Athenaeum Club
Description: Photograph of the Kansas City Athenaeum building at the corner of Campbell St. and Linwood Boulevard circa 1981. The building, designed by architect Samuel Tarbet and opened in 1914, serves was the home for the Kansas City Women's Athenaeum Club, which was founded in 1894 and focused on cultural programming for local women. With club membership dwindling, the building was sold to the Kansas City alumnae chapter of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority in 2015. The LaSalle apartment building, a 14-story building which served as apartments, a hotel, and senior housing and was demolished in 2001, can be seen to the east of the Athenaeum.
Date: 1981~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Ambassador Apartments
Description: Photograph of architectural detailing on the upper levels of the Ambassador Apartments at 435 Knickerbocker Place, circa 1981. The building, called Ambassador A, and its twin neighbor to the west, Ambassador B, were designed by local architect Nelle Peters and were built by the Ambassador Hotel to serve as overflow guest rooms in 1927 and were later used as apartments. Both buildings were razed in 2012.
Date: 1981~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Athenaeum Club
Description: Photograph of the Kansas City Athenaeum building at the corner of Campbell St. and Linwood Boulevard circa 1981. The building, designed by architect Samuel Tarbet and opened in 1914, serves as the home for the Kansas City Women's Athenaeum Club, which was founded in 1894 and focused on cultural programming for local women. With club membership dwindling, the building was sold to the Kansas City alumnae chapter of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority in 2015. The LaSalle apartment building, seen in the photograph with the name Defenders' Townhouse, Inc., was a senior housing facility at 922 Linwood. The 14-story building also served as apartments and a hotel and was demolished in 2001.
Date: 1981~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Pomona Court and Woolf Brothers
Description: Photograph of a fountain in the Pomona Courtyard at the northeast corner of Broadway Boulevard and Ward Parkway, circa 1987.
Date: 1987~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Balcony and Neptune Buildings
Description: Photograph of the commercial Balcony Building at Broadway and Wornall, and the Neptune Apartments building at 46th Terrace and Broadway, circa 1987. The Neptune building is pictured while still under construction.
Date: 1987~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Janssen Place Residential District Main Entrance Gateway
Description: Photograph of a pillar, part of the Janssen Place Residential District Main Entrance Gateway at the intersection of Janssen Place and 36th Street. The gate was constructed in 1897. In 1975, the neighborhood was placed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Janssen Place Historic District and on the Kansas City Register of Historic Places in 1980.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 432-34 West 47th Street
Description: Photograph of an apartment building at 432-34 West 47th Street in the early 1980s. The buildings, along with all other buildings on the block bound by 47th Street, 46th Terrace, Pennsylvania Avenue, and Broadway, were demolished to make way for the Valencia Place office building project, the groundbreaking for which took place in November 1997.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Chandler Court
Description: Photograph of the Chandler Courtyard, at the southeast corner of 47th and Wyandotte Streets, circa 1980. The courtyard features a large fountain, alternately known as the Pan or Bacchus Fountain. The building adjacent to the courtyard was home to clothing store Swanson's.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Stanford and Sons
Description: Photograph of Stanford and Sons restaurant and comedy club, at 504 Westport Road, circa 1980. Standing to its east, at the right of the photo, is Kelly's Bar at 500 Westport Road. Both buildings were built circa 1850 and are among the oldest buildings in Kansas City. The Manor Bakery building is visible in the background of the image.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Plaza Laundry Company
Description: Photograph of the Plaza Laundry Company building at the corner of 42nd Street and Pennsylvania Avenue circa 1980. The building was constructed as a laundry in 1925, and in 1982, a new owner began a renovation process to turn the structure into an office building dubbed 100 Westport Square.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 1320 West 12th Street
Description: Photograph of 12th Street, looking west from 1320 West 12th Street to Liberty Street, in the early 1980s. The Kansas City Bolt, Nut & Screw Company spans a large segment of the block east of Hickory Street. Buildings to its east were demolished after being destroyed by a 1983 fire.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: City Bank and Trust Company
Description: Photograph of City Bank, at 1800 Grand Boulevard, circa 1980. The building opened as Grand Avenue Bank in 1976, and was designed by the Kivett & Myer architecture firm. The firm changed its name to City Bank and Trust Company in 1978. The Power and Light and Davidson buildings can also be seen in the background of the image, to the northwest.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

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