Kansas City Landmarks Slide Collection

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: Alameda Plaza Hotel
Description: Photograph of the north side of the Alameda Plaza Hotel, looking southeast from a parking lot between the Thomas Carlyle and Robert Louis Stevenson apartment buildings, circa 1988.
Date: 1988~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 47th and Belleview Intersection
Description: Photograph from just south of the intersection of 47th and Belleview, looking north, circa 1988. The Plaza West office is visible in the background, at 4600 Madison Avenue. The Belletower office building at foreground left is located at 4700 Belleview, and the building at right is located at 919 West 47th Street.
Date: 1988~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Carlton Plaza
Description: Photograph, looking north along Roanoke Parkway from 48th Street, of the Carlton Plaza apartment building at 4740 Roanoke circa 1988.
Date: 1988~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Robert Browning Apartments
Description: Photograph of the Robert Browning apartment building, at 4809 Roanoke Parkway, circa 1988. The building was constructed in 1929, and is part the "Poet Apartments" cluster of buildings named for famous writers and designed by local architect Nelle E. Peters.
Date: 1988~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 4700 Block of Belleview Avenue
Description: Photograph of the 4700 block of Belleview Avenue, looking south toward Ward Parkway, circa 1988. The shingled apartment building at right is located at 4732 Belleview, and the Plazaview office building visible at left is located at 4739 Belleview. The houses at left were demolished between 1989-1991 to provide parking for the adjacent office building.
Date: 1988~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Country Club Plaza Courtyard
Description: Photograph of a brick and wood pergola standing in a Plaza-area courtyard at the rear of apartment buildings circa 1988.
Date: 1988~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Cezanne Apartments
Description: Photograph of the door of the Cezanne Apartments building at 712 West 48th Street, circa 1988. The building, along with its mirror twin Rousseau Building at 720 West 48th, were built in 1929 and designed by local architect Nelle E. Peters. The pair are the Painter Buildings, adjacent Peters' Poet Buildings cluster.
Date: 1988~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 4734 Summit Street
Description: Photograph of an apartment building at 4734 Summit Street circa 1988. The building, along with two identical buildings to its north at 4728 and 4730, were designed by local architect Nelle E. Peters. The buildings were demolished in 2016.
Date: 1988~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Ward Parkway Houses
Description: Photograph of houses on the 500 block of Ward Parkway (later renumbered as the 700 block), overlooking Brush Creek circa 1988. The houses were demolished prior circa 2000.
Date: 1988~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Ward Parkway Houses
Description: Photograph of houses on the 500 block of Ward Parkway (later renumbered as the 700 block), taken from inside the Winston Churchill building, overlooking Brush Creek circa 1988. The houses were demolished prior circa 2000.
Date: 1988~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: James Russell Lowell Apartments
Description: Photograph of the James Russell Lowell Apartments building at 722 Ward Parkway, circa 1988. Built in 1929, the Lowell building is part of a complex of apartments with literary names, known as the Poet Apartments, designed by local architect Nelle E. Peters.
Date: 1988~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Brush Creek and Ward Parkway
Description: Photograph taken from the Winston Churchill building overlooking Ward Parkway and Brush Creek circa 1988. The 433 Ward Parkway condominium building is visible on the south side of the creek at left, and Tudor-style houses on the 500 block of Ward Parkway (later renumbered as the 700 block) are seen at right.
Date: 1988~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Thomas Carlyle Apartments
Description: Photograph of the door of the Thomas Carlyle Apartments building at 700 Ward Parkway, circa 1988. Built in 1928, the Lowell building is part of a complex of apartments with literary names, known as the Poet Apartments, designed by local architect Nelle E. Peters.
Date: 1988~
Object Type: Photograph

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