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Title: Duke Residence
Description: Includes nomination form for the National Register for the Duke residence at 500 East Armour Boulevard.
Object Type: Report

Title: Michael Ross House
Description: Includes nomination form for the National Register for the Judge Michael Ross house at 501 East Armour Boulevard.
Object Type: Report

Title: Carriage House on Armour Boulevard
Description: Folder includes nomination form for the National Register for the carriage house at 218 East Armour Boulevard.
Object Type: Report

Title: Night in Kansas City
Description: A small booklet featuring photographs of Kansas City that have been artistically enhanced to create a nighttime effect.
Date: 1912
Object Type: Book

Title: S. B. Armour Is Dead: Death Came to the Armour Packing Company's President at 9:30 o'Clock [sic] This Morning
Description: Portrait and obituary for Simeon Armour, or S. B. Armour (1828-1899), co-founder and president of the Armour Packing Company in Kansas City. Description of his life and career as a native of New York coming to Kansas City in 1870 and co-founding the Plankinton & Armour's Packing Company, later called the Armour Packing Company. Anecdotes about his management practices at the plant, such as a no-smoking policy applying to all employees except himself. Posthumous namesake of Armour Boulevard.
Date: 1899-03-29
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Q.: What Can You Tell Me about the Loose Mansion?
Description: The Jacob L. Loose mansion at 101 E. Armour Blvd. was sold last November to a local non-profit foundation. The Integratism Foundation bought the building from the Resolution Trust Corp. for $390,000. The 85-year-old mansion was restored as an office building in 1984 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It contains 18,700 square feet and has a three-level, 2,400-square-foot carriage house. The house was built in 1909 by Mr. Loose, founder of the Loose-Wiles Biscuit Co. The name of the company was later changed to Sunshine Biscuits Inc. Loose lived in the four-level house until his death in 1923.
Date: 1995-01-22
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Wrennmore Apartment Hotel
Description: Story of the replacement of the one-family John Parker home at Armour and Harrison Streets by the 70-family Wrennmore Apartment Hotel building.
Date: 1927-12-11
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: We Will Dedicate Our New Office Building
Description: Full page ad with illustrations about the dedication of the newly- constructed Kansas City Life Insurance Company Building at Broadway and Armour Boulevards on August 1, 1924.
Date: 1924-07-31
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Armour Apartments Slated For an Upgrade
Description: Three apartments built in the 1920s located on Armour Boulevard are being renovated. These include the Bainbridge at 900 E. Armour; Georgian Court at 400 E. Armour; and Linda Vista at 1301 E. Armour. They are to be finished in 2008 at a cost of $37 million. Eagle Point Partners purchased the buildings. Includes pictures of the Bainbridge and Georgian Court Apartments.
Date: 2006-07-06
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Grand Plans For Armour Boulevard
Description: Five neglected once grand apartment buildings on Armour are to be given a second chance with a proposed renovation project. Antheus Capital LLC, a New Jersey real estate investment company wants to spend $30 million to do the job. "The buildings, which once housed young urban professionals of Kansas City during the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, are in varying degrees of deterioration." Tax abatement will be asked for the project. "The grandest of the brick structures purchased by Antheus is the Bellerive, a nine-story apartment building at 214 E. Armour. It was built as a hotel-apartment building in 1922 and also was the location of one of the city's hottest nightclubs, the El Casbah Club, where the likes of Billie Holiday, Harry James and Duke Ellington performed. The others are Clyde Manor, 350 E. Armour, a nine-story building erected in 1920; Park Central, 300 E. Armour, eight stories, 1930; Yankee Hill, 3430 Gillham Road, 1914; and a 1920s vintage apartment building at 3411 Gillham." The monthly rates will be from low $500 to $900.
Date: 2006-11-03
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: He Beats the Rap but You Take It
Description: Photo and article about the murder trail of Charles Gargotta, "rat-faced Pendergast political lieutenant and gangster" reportedly interrupted by Sheriff Thomas Bash in "a killing party on Armour boulevard and Forest avenue" on August 12, 1933. Details about the case and information about other Kansas Citians involved, including the following: "Ferris Anthon, a rival Fifteenth street bootlegger" allegedly killed in the shooting by Gargotta; Sammy Scola and Gus Fasone, "friends of Gargotta and fellow workers in the North Side Democratic club" killed by Bash; John Lazia, "North Side gangster king" and owner of the Gargotta Buick; and presiding judge Merrill Ots, et al.
Date: 1935-05-17
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: The Colonnade Apartment On Armour Boulevard
Description: A photograph of the Colonnade Apartments located on Armour Boulevard between Wyandotte and Central Streets. It was designed by J. W. McKecknie. This short article is actually an ad for the Kansas City Hydraulic Press Brick Company.
Date: 1905-05-01
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: View of Gillham from Armor
Description: Looking north along Gillham from Armour.
Date: 1920
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Catholic Community Club
Description: View looking southwest of the Catholic Community Club Building at the corner of Armour Boulevard and Forest Avenue.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Armour Boulevard
Description: Looking down Armour Boulevard from Campbell in Kansas City, Missouri.
Date: 1915
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Commercial Union Building
Description: Partial view of the Commercial Union Building, located at 211 West Armour. Monroe & Lefebvre Architects, Inc. received an award for their use of commercial property in a residential area, screening and parking design in their work with this building.
Date: 1965
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Mobil Oil Station
Description: Mobil Oil Service Station, located at the intersection of Troost Avenue and Armour Boulevard. Architect Eliot Noyes received an award for simplicity in commercial architecture and site use for its design.
Date: 1968
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Armour Boulevard and Troost Avenue
Description: View of intersection of Armour Boulevard and Troost Avenue. The Armour Hotel, Advanced Launderers and Cleaners, and Crown Drugstore are visible.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Gillham Plaza Entrance
Description: View of the entrance to Gillham Plaza, located at 310 E. Armour Boulevard. Designers Don Distler and John Lawrence Daw received an award for their work refurbishing the exterior of this building.
Date: 1980
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Colonnade Apartments
Description: Poastcard of the Colonnade Apartments that once stood at 201-219 Armour Boulevard.
Object Type: Postcard

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