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Title: Ambassador Apartments
Description: Photograph of the front entrance of the Ambassador Apartments building at 3560 Broadway Boulevard in the early 1980s. The building was designed by local architect Nelle E. Peters and built in 1924 as the Ambassador Hotel. The building was renovated into apartments circa 1982, at the time the building and several of its neighbors were placed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was placed on the Kansas City Register of Historic Places as part of the Ambassador Hotel Historic District in 1994. Located in the Valentine neighborhood.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 910 East 25th Street
Description: Photograph of an apartment building at 910 East 24th Street in the early 1980s. The building, along with all other houses and buildings on the block, were demolished to create a parking lot for neighborhood hospitals and other healthcare facilities.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 46th and 47th Street Apartment Buildings
Description: Photograph, looking southeast from the top of the Fountain View building (later American Century north tower) of apartment buildings on the north and south sides of 47th Street circa 1987. The Sophian Plaza building, at 4618 Warwick, is seen at the left side of the image, with apartment buildings lining 46th Street, and behind them 47th Street, in the center of the image. Behind them, office buildings on Volker Boulevard, and further south, buildings on the UMKC campus, are pictured.
Date: 1987~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Country Club Plaza Parking Lots and Buildings
Description: Photograph, looking northwest from an elevated position at Nichols and Central, of parking lots, commercial, residential, and office buildings in the Plaza area circa 1987. The Seville Square shopping center is visible at left, with Dillard's department store, on 47th Street, visible at right.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 800 Block of West 48th Street
Description: Photograph, looking east, of apartment buildings lining the south side of 48th Street between Roanoke Parkway and Jefferson Street. Pictured from right to left: the Mark Twain Apartments at 4801 Roanoke, the Eugene Field Apartments at 807 West 48th, the Winston Churchill at 803 West 48th, and the Longfellow apartments at 4800 Jefferson Street.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Ambassador Apartments
Description: Photograph of the Ambassador Apartments building at 3560 Broadway Boulevard in the early 1980s. The building was designed by local architect Nelle E. Peters and built in 1924 as the Ambassador Hotel. The building was renovated into apartments circa 1982, at the time the building and several of its neighbors were placed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was placed on the Kansas City Register of Historic Places as part of the Ambassador Hotel Historic District in 1994. At the time of the photograph, Home Savings Bank and Haley's Jewelry Store also occupied the building. Located in the Valentine neighborhood.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Plaza Aerial View
Description: Aerial photograph looking east through the Plaza along Brush Creek and Ward Parkway in the 1980s. Plaza-area commercial and residential buildings filling the bulk of the image, from roughly Roanoke Parkway on the west to McGee at the east.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph, Cityscapes

Title: 8-10 East 32nd Terrace
Description: Photograph of apartment buildings at 8-12 E. 32nd Terrace looking southwest from a rear parking lot in the early 1980s. The area, south of Linwood Boulevard to 34th Street, between Main and Gillham, was deemed blighted and ridden with crime and drugs in the late 1980s, and these buildings, as well as other homes, apartments, and commercial buildings, were demolished in the early and mid-'90s as part of the so-called "Glover Plan" to be replaced by the Midtown Marketplace development, a large commercial development anchored by big box retailers Home Depot and Costco.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 9-11 East 32nd Terrace
Description: Photograph of apartment buildings on the south side of East 32nd Terrace in the early 1980s, including 9-11 East 32nd Street. The area, south of Linwood Boulevard to 34th Street, between Main and Gillham, was deemed blighted and ridden with crime and drugs in the late 1980s, and these buildings, as well as other homes, apartments, and commercial buildings, were demolished in the early and mid-'90s as part of the so-called "Glover Plan" to be replaced by the Midtown Marketplace development, a large commercial development anchored by big box retailers Home Depot and Costco. Part of a Louis Curtiss-designed warehouse building at 3240 Main can be seen in the background of the image.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 4500 Block of Main Street
Description: Photograph, looking southwest, of the west side of the 4500 block of Main Street circa 1980. Spanish-style apartment buildings, at 4502 and 4506 Main Street, can be seen on the west side of the street, and were later demolished for the construction of the Fountain View (later American Century) office towers. The Sulgrave and Regency highrise apartment towers, located on 48th Street, are visible in the background of the image.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: The Walnuts
Description: An autochrome photograph of The Walnuts west building, taken from the south in October.
Date: 1932-10-16
Object Type: Photograph

Title: The Walnuts
Description: An autochrome photograph of The Walnuts west building, taken from the south in October.
Date: 1932-10-16
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 1600 Block of West 39th Street
Description: Photograph of buildings on the north side of the 1600 block of West 39th Street circa 1990. Atomic Electric Company, at 1610 W. 39th, and Mr. Z's In and Out convenience store, at 1600 W. 39th, are among the businesses pictured.
Date: 1990~
Object Type: Photograph

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