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Title: Westport Methodist Church
Description: Photograph of Westport Methodist Church at the corner of 40th and Washington Streets in the early 1980s. The church was dedicated in October 1896, and the congregation has been called the oldest in Kansas City, initially meeting in the home of William Chick in 1836, and the original building on the site constructed in 1853.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Westport Methodist Church
Description: Photograph of Westport Methodist Church at the corner of 40th and Washington Streets in the early 1980s. The church was dedicated in October 1896, and the congregation has been called the oldest in Kansas City, initially meeting in the home of William Chick in 1836, and the original building on the site constructed in 1853.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Westport Methodist Church
Description: Photograph of the main entrance of Westport Methodist Church at the corner of 40th and Washington Streets in the early 1980s. The church was dedicated in October 1896, and the congregation has been called the oldest in Kansas City, initially meeting in the home of William Chick in 1836, and the original building on the site constructed in 1853.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Westport and Main
Description: Photograph of the Montrose Apartments building at the corner of 40th and Main Streets in the early 1980s, looking east from the intersection of Westport Road and Main. The building was designed by Shepard & Wiser and built in 1923. It was demolished in early 1998 and the site used for a parking lot. St. Paul's Episcopal Church stands to the south, across 40th Street.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: St. James Baptist Church
Description: Photograph of St. James Baptist Church at 43rd and Washington Streets in the early 1980s. The church and the house at the right edge of the image are, as of 2018, the only pre-1940 structures remaining on the block, which was part of the historic Steptoe neighborhood, a pre-Civil War African-American neighborhood in the Westport area. The remaining land was reused for the new Kansas City Fire Department Station 19 and a large parking lot.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: St. Luke's A.M.E. Church and Parsonage
Description: Photograph of the Saint Luke's A.M.E. Church, in a triangle created by the intersections of the corner of 43rd Street, Archibald Avenue and Roanoke Streets in the early 1980s. The church, established for freed slaves in Kansas City's Steptoe neighborhood after the Civil War, constructed the church building in 1882 and the parsonage at the rear of the property in 1891. It was razed in July 2003 due to building deterioration and the widening of 43rd Street. Prior to that, the church was the oldest church in Westport.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: St. Luke's A.M.E. Church Cornerstone
Description: Photograph of the Saint Luke's A.M.E. Church cornerstone, in a triangle created by the intersections of the corner of 43rd Street, Archibald Avenue and Roanoke Streets in the early 1980s. The stone records the date of the church's construction as 1882. The church was established for freed slaves in Kansas City's Steptoe neighborhood after the Civil War, and the parsonage at the rear of the property was added in 1891. The buildings were razed in July 2003 due to deterioration and the widening of 43rd Street. Prior to that, the church was the oldest church in Westport.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: St. Luke's A.M.E. Church and Parsonage
Description: Photograph of the Saint Luke's A.M.E. Church, in a triangle created by the intersections of the corner of 43rd Street, Archibald Avenue and Roanoke Streets in the early 1980s. The church, established for freed slaves in Kansas City's Steptoe neighborhood after the Civil War, constructed the church building in 1882 and the parsonage at the rear of the property in 1891. The buildings were razed in July 2003 due to deterioration and the widening of 43rd Street. Prior to that, the church was the oldest church in Westport.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Southwell Building
Description: Photograph of the Southwell Building at the intersection of Main Street and Westport Road, in the late 1970s. The building was designed by architects McKecknie and Trask and opened in 1929. A real estate sign hangs in the window of the storefront at 3935 Main, which was recently occupied by Howard E. Thruman Institutional Church, and a door to the second-floor Harling's Upstairs Bar and Grill can be seen at the right of the image. Moten's Shoe Repair occupies the neighboring building to the north.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: St. Luke's A.M.E. Church
Description: Photograph of the Saint Luke's A.M.E. Church, in a triangle created by the intersections of the corner of 43rd Street, Archibald Avenue and Roanoke Streets in the early 1980s. The church, established for freed slaves in Kansas City's Steptoe neighborhood after the Civil War, constructed the church building in 1882 and the parsonage at the rear of the property in 1891. A sign reports times for morning worship and church school, and records Dr. Howard S. Gloyd as pastor. The buildings were razed in July 2003 due to deterioration and the widening of 43rd Street. Prior to that, the church was the oldest church in Westport.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Broadway Baptist Church
Description: Photograph of the Broadway Church, facing Broadway at 39th Terrace, in the early 1980s. The building was completed in the fall of 1922, and the congregation originated at 416 West 14th Street as the First Swedish Baptist Church.
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: Our Lady of Good Counsel Catholic Church
Description: Photograph of Our Lady of Good Counsel Catholic Church at 3932 Washington Street in the early 1980s, with its rectory building in the foreground. The cornerstone of the church was laid in 1906, and the rectory was built in 1924.
Date: 1980~/1989~
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

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