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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: 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: 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: 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: Trinity United Methodist Church
Description: Photograph of the Trinity United Methodist Church at 620 East Armour Boulevard in the early 1980s. Designed by George Fuller Green, the church was built in 1918. Armour Park Apartments, to its west, can be seen at the left of the image.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Central Presbyterian Church
Description: Photograph of the Central Presbyterian Church at the southeast corner of Armour and Campbell in the early 1980s. The congregation, founded in 1866, has resided at this location since 1921. The Wrennmoor apartment building, at 915 East Armour, can be seen standing to the east of the church. The building opened in 1927, but was condemned after multiple arson fires in 1988. It was demolished in 1995.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Luzier Cosmetics Building
Description: Photograph of the southern wing of the Luzier Cosmetics Building at 3216 Gillham Plaza in the 1980s. The building was developed in two phases - the larger north wing was designed by local architecture firm Hoit, Price, ; Barnes in 1927 for Martha Washington Candy Company, and the smaller south wing designed by local architect Nelle E. Peters and added in 1928. Luzier purchased the north building and linked the two in 1933, at which time Peters' exterior ornamentation was extended to unify the structures. The building served as the headquarters for the Luzier Cosmetics company from 1928 to 2000.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Clyde Manor Apartments
Description: Photograph from about 1980 of Clyde Manor Apartments, at the corner of Gillham Road and Armour Boulevard, designed sometime between 1930 and 1944 by Architect Philip T. Drotts. The building was listed in 1982 in the Kansas City Register of Historic Places as part of the Armour/Gillham Historic Apartment Hotel District.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 1000-02 East 33rd Street
Description: Photograph of an apartment building at 1000-02 East 33rd Street in the early 1980s. The majority of the houses and apartments on this block were demolished in the decades following the photograph.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 1006 Linwood Boulevard
Description: Photograph of a building and storefront at the corner of Linwood and Harrison circa 1981. The location was a Safeway grocery store in the '30s, then housed a Western Auto store from the 1940s until August, 1979, and later became home to the Paul Mesner Puppet Theater. The building was vacant at the time of the photograph.
Date: 1981~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Fire Station 31
Description: Photograph of Kansas City Fire Department's Fire Station 31, at 4518 Troost Avenue, around the time of its closure in 1979. KCFD chose to close this location upon the opening of a new station at 34th and the Paseo.
Date: 1979~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Newbern Apartments
Description: Photograph circa 1980s of two apartment buildings at the corner of East Armour Boulevard and Cherry Street, on the south side of Armour Boulevard. On the left is the Windemere Apartments at 601 East Armour Boulevard, built in 1922-23. On the right is the Newbern Apartment building at 525 East Armour Boulevard which was built in 1921-23 and designed by architects Ernest O. Brostorm and Philip T. Drotts. The Windemere Apartments were placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983 as part of the Armour Boulevard Multiple Resources -District II in 1984. The Newbern Apartments were placed on the Kansas City Register of Historic Places in 1978 as Newbern E Armour Blvd Apartments, and in 1982 as part of the Armour/Gillham Historic Apartment-Hotel District. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. Located in the Hyde Park neighborhood.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Wirthman Building
Description: Photograph of the upper levels of the Wirthman Building at the corner of 31st Street and Troost Avenue in the early 1980s. Lettering in an upper window Reads "A. L. Kushner Dentist." Constructed in 1917, the building was briefly home to Walt Disney's Laugh-O-Gram Studios, and was demolished in 1997.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Georgian Court Apartments
Description: Photograph of the Georgian Court Apartments at 400 East Armour Boulevard, the northeast corner of Armour and Gillham Road, in the early 1980s. Designed by Shepard, Farrar & Wiser, the Georgian Court was built in 1917. At the time of the photograph, the buildings served as federally subsidized housing.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 1000-02 East 33rd Street
Description: Photograph of an apartment building at 1000-02 East 33rd Street in the early 1980s. The majority of the houses and apartments on this block were demolished in the decades following the photograph.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Windemere Apartments
Description: Photograph of the Windemere Apartments building at 601-607 East Armour Boulevard in the early 1980s. The buildings were constructed in 1922-23, and served as a residential care facility for individuals with psychological issues in the 1970s. That facility closed in 1978, and by 1980 the building returned to use as an apartment building. The Kenwood Apartments, at the southwest corner of Armour and Kenwood, are visible at the left of the image.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 4341-43 Harrison Street
Description: Photograph of a six-plex colonnade apartment building at 4341-43 Harrison Street in the 1980s.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 3130-3132 Troost Avenue
Description: Photograph of a commercial building at 3130-32 Troost Avenue in the early 1980s, with Drake International Security as a ground floor tenant. The building was constructed circa 1922, and is still standing as of 2018, though the neighboring building to the south (at the left of the image) was razed and the space was used as a parking lot.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Newbern Apartments
Description: Photograph of the main doorway of the Newbern Apartments building at 525 East Armour Boulevard in the early 1980s. Built in 1921, the building was originally known as the Peacock Hotel, but was renamed Newbern in 1925.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 4024-26 Troost Avenue
Description: Photograph of a three-story apartment building at 4024-26 Troost Avenue in the early 1980s. The apartments were built in the early 1920s and is part of a row of six identical buildings.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

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