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Title: 125th Anniversary Reenactment of The Battle of Westport
Date: 1989
Object Type: Audio Visual

Title: 1411 West 39th Street
Description: Photograph of a retail building at 1411 West 39th Street, circa 1990. La Fonda El Taquito closed at the location in 1989 and Westport Pizza Company opened later that year. Wyoming Beauty beauty shop occupies the storefront at 1413 West 39th.
Date: 1990~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 20 West 43rd Street
Description: Photograph of a house at 20 West 43rd Street in the early 1980s, covered in ivy and with lit lamps in the window. Numerous houses at its rear along Baltimore Street were demolished to create parking lots for adjacent businesses. The house was later converted to use as office space.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 20 West 43rd Street
Description: Photograph of a house at 20 West 43rd Street in the early 1980s, covered in ivy and with lit lamps in the window. Numerous houses at its rear along Baltimore Street were demolished to create parking lots for adjacent businesses. The house was later converted to use as office space.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 26 Schools Will Close
Description: On March 10, 2010, the Kansas City school board voted 5-4 to close 26 schools as recommended by new superintendent John Covington in his "Right Sizing Plan." The closings will reduce the number of school buildings by 40 percent and cut $50 million in expenses from the school district's budget. The 33 remaining schools will be the fewest the district has operated since 1889. A few of the notable school closings include Westport High School, Lincoln College Prep middle school, and Franklin, Longan, McCoy, Woodland, and Carver elementary schools.
Date: 2010-03-11
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: 38th and Main at Night
Description: Elevated nighttime view looking northwest of the intersection of 38th and Main Streets in Midtown. The Price Building can be seen on the left hand side of the image. The Hyde Park Building is visible on the right. Sign's for Price's Drugs, South Side Bank of Kansas City, and Crown Drug can be seen. Cars parked and traveling along 38th and Main streets are in view.
Date: 1935~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 3900 Block of Main Street
Description: Photograph of buildings on the west side of the intersection of 39th and Main Streets in the early 1980s. Muehlebach Flowers, at 3934 Main Street, is picture, as is a free-standing restaurant building that had been vacated by a Denny's restaurant in 1982. Calvary Baptist Church, at 3921 Baltimore, can be seen in the background on the opposite side of the block. The Price Candy Company Building, occupied by the Foolkiller Theater company, can be seen on the northwest corner of the intersection.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 3900 Block of Wyandotte
Description: Photographs of houses and apartment buildings on the east side of the 3900 block of Wyandotte Street in the early 1980s. Many houses and other buildings on the block were demolished to make space for parking lots.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 3910 Main Street
Description: Photograph of a vacant building at 3910 Main Street, circa 1983. The building was originally a Denny's restaurant that closed in 1982. Rosie's Bakery and Deli opened in the building in 1983. Foolkiller Theater, on the northwest corner of 39th and Main, can be seen in the background of the image. The restaurant building and gas station to the north were demolished in 1998.
Date: 1983~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 3916 Broadway Boulevard
Description: Photograph circa 1980s of Astaur Gulaian ; Son Oriental Rugs store at 3916 Broadway Boulevard. Gulaian moved into this building ca. 1930; the business closed in 1989. Located in the Westport neighborhood.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 3921 Warwick Boulevard
Description: Photograph of a house at 3921 Warwick Boulevard in the early 1980s. The ornamented roofline of Westport High School can be seen in the background of the image, above garage at the rear of the property. The neighboring house to the north, visible at the left edge of the image, and other houses on the north end of the block were razed to make room for an additional parking lot for the high school.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 3923 Warwick Boulevard
Description: Photograph of a house at 3923 Warwick Boulevard in the early 1980s. Numerous houses on the north end of the block had recently been razed to make room for an additional parking lot for Westport High School, one block to the east.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 3932 Central Street
Description: Photograph circa 1980s of a single family home at 3932 Central Street, built ca 1885. Recognized in the Historic Inventory of the State Historical Survey and Planning Office in 1976 as the Charles N. Price Residence. Price who was City Marshall for Westport Missouri in 1887. As of 2018, the home appears to have been significantly renovated.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 3932 Central Street
Description: Photograph of the five window bay on the south facade of the single family home at 3932 Central Street, built circa 1885. Recognized in the Historic Inventory of the State Historical Survey and Planning Office in 1976 as the Charles N. Price Residence. Price who was City Marshall for Westport Missouri in 1887. The window is considered architecturally significant for home design at the time it was built, according to the Inventory. As of 2018, the home appears to have been significantly renovated.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 3932 Central Street
Description: Photograph circa 1980s of a single family home at 3932 Central Street, built ca 1885. Recognized in the Historic Inventory of the State Historical Survey and Planning Office in 1976 as the Charles N. Price Residence. Price who was City Marshall for Westport Missouri in 1887. Located in the Westport neighborhood, as of 2018, the home appears to have been significantly renovated.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 3932 Central Street
Description: Photograph circa 1980s of the single family home at 3932 Central Street, built ca 1885. Recognized in the Historic Inventory of the State Historical Survey and Planning Office in 1976 as the Charles N. Price Residence. Price who was City Marshall for Westport Missouri in 1887. Located in the Westport neighborhood, as of 2018, the home appears to have been significantly renovated.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 3934 Washington Street
Description: Photograph of the Our Lady of Good Counsel Church rectory at 3934 Washington Street in the early 1980s. The church itself stands to the north of the rectory, at the right of the photograph. A brick building in the background left of the image was a church-affiliated school that was later demolished. The site is now a parking lot.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 3939 Wyandotte Street
Description: Photograph of a house at 3939 Wyandotte Street in the early 1980s. The stone building at the edge of the photograph is the Westport branch of the Kansas City Public Library, which faces Westport Road. Several other houses neighboring of the library had been demolished to allow for library parking.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 3951-79 Main Street
Description: Photographs of stores and an apartment building on the 3900 block of Main Street in the early 1980s. The Old Westport Cash Saver grocery store, at 3967 Main, and the Montrose Apartment building, at the corner of 40th, Walnut, and Main Streets, are among the buildings pictured. The Montrose Apartments were demolished in early 1998 and the site was used for a parking lot.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 39th and Main Business District
Description: Building projects in the still thriving business district with "the most" assorted building ages in the city.
Date: 1929-11-02
Object Type: Newspaper Article

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