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Title: Norman School
Description: Full, exterior street level view of Norman School located at 3514 Jefferson. Named after Joseph L. Norman, President of the Board of Education and member of the Board for 16 years.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Hughes' Kansas City Views
Description: Photo of the "home built for the owners of Roanoke, for sale at cost to them," at 3712 Summit Road.
Date: 1900
Object Type: Book

Title: George S. Hovey Residence
Description: File contains a booklet about the third Designers' Showhouse (1972) featuring the George Hovey residence, built in 1909 at 1005 Valentine Road, "and lived in by only one other family [by 1972], the Howard N. Barnums," with illustrations including numerous interior scenes.
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Discovering the Past
Description: Some history of the Roanoke Park area of Westport.
Date: 1976-05
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Waldo Residential District
Description: File contains a booklet for a walking tour of the Valentine neighborhood in 1983.
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Roanoke Residential District
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Valentine Residential District
Description: File contains a pamphlet with illustrations, map, and information on the Valentine residential district with turn of the century residences and located roughly between (and just east of the Roanoke residential district) 35th, 38th, Broadway Boulevard, and Southwest Trafficway.
Date: 1905-06-05
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Historic Homes in Heart of the City
Description: Regular real estate feature from Sunday Star features Valentine and Roanoke neighborhoods. Photographs of houses at 3660 Madison Avenue, 1008 Valentine Road, 3670 Jefferson, 3700 Summit, 517 W. 38th, 611 W. 38th, and 3782 Washington are provided.
Date: 2006-08-20
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Roanoke Court Apartments
Description: View looking east of the Roanoke Court Apartments at 3659-3689 Summit Street, later Southwest Trafficway. The buildings are in a state of disrepair.
Date: 1988
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Roanoke Court Apartments
Description: View looking east of the Roanoke Court Apartments at 3659-3689 Summit Street, later Southwest Trafficway. Cars parked along Summit Street can be seen. An opening celebration appears to be in progress.
Date: 1988
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Roanoke Court Apartments
Description: View looking southeast of the Roanoke Court Apartments at 3659-3689 Summit Street, later Southwest Trafficway.
Date: 1988
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Roanoke Court Apartments
Description: View looking northeast of the Roanoke Court Apartments at 3659-3689 Summit Street, later Southwest Trafficway.
Date: 1988
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Roanoke Court Apartments
Description: View looking east of the Roanoke Court Apartments at 3659-3689 Summit Street, later Southwest Trafficway.
Date: 1988
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Roanoke Court Apartments
Description: View looking southeast of the Roanoke Court Apartments at 3659-3689 Summit Street, later Southwest Trafficway.
Date: 1988
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 3406 Pennsylvania Avenue
Description: Photograph of a house located at 3406 Pennsylvania Avenue circa 1981. The house has since been demolished, along with many other single-family homes on that block.
Date: 1981~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Knickerbocker Apartments demolition
Description: Photograph circa 1982 documenting the demolition of 500 Knickerbocker Place, part of the Knickerbocker Apartments on the north side of Knickerbocker Place. The block of apartments were razed in 1982 for a Kansas City Life Insurance Company expansion project. The twin building on the south side of the street was still standing as of 2018. Both were built circa 1910 and designed by architect Leon Grant Middaugh. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.
Date: 1982~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Knickerbocker North Apartments
Description: Photograph of the Knickerbocker Apartments, on the north side of Knickerbocker Place at 530 Knickerbocker Place, during their demolition. The north apartments were razed beginning in late August, 1982, to make room for a Kansas City Life Insurance Company expansion project. The twin building on the south side of the street was still standing as of 2018. Both were built circa 1910 and designed by architect Leon Grant Middaugh. The tower visible at the top left of the photograph stands atop another Kansas City Life building, just north of the apartments.
Date: 1982
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Ambassador Apartments
Description: Photograph of architectural detailing on the upper levels of the Ambassador Apartments at 435 Knickerbocker Place, circa 1981. The building, called Ambassador A, and its twin neighbor to the west, Ambassador B, were designed by local architect Nelle Peters and were built by the Ambassador Hotel to serve as overflow guest rooms in 1927 and were later used as apartments. Both buildings were razed in 2012.
Date: 1981~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Alley between 603 W. 33rd Street and 300 Pennsylvania Avenue
Description: Photograph looking south down the alley between an apartment building at 609-11 West 33rd Street and the Browne's Irish Market building at 300 Pennsylvania Avenue in the early 1980s. The building which houses Browne's Irish Market stands east of the apartment building, at the left of the image. This apartment and the Browne's building are two of the few buildings remaining on their block after a effort in the 1970s and early 1980s by the Kansas City Life Insurance Company to redevelop the area into an office park.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Knickerbocker North Apartments
Description: Photograph of 500 Knickerbocker Place, part of the Knickerbocker Apartments on the north side of Knickerbocker Place, circa 1981. The block of apartments were razed in 1982 for a Kansas City Life Insurance Company expansion project. The twin building on the south side of the street was still standing as of 2018. Both were built circa 1910 and designed by architect Leon Grant Middaugh.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

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