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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: More Conveniences in Flats
Description: Illustration and article about the "plans for the new 5-story apartment building at 1112-1116 Armour boulevard," called the Chicago Apartments and designed by architect Matt O'Connell.
Date: 1908-10-14
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Traymore Apartment Building
Description: Story of the replacement of the home of A. Rothenberg at Armour and Virginia Avenues by the Traymore Apartment building.
Date: 1923-11-04
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Armour Blvd. Once Commonwealth Ave.
Description: Article discussing the "change of character" of the once-exclusive single-family Armour Boulevard, illustrated on a 1886 plat map of the Hyde Park addition, when the boulevard was known as "Commonwealth Avenue."
Date: 1928-09-23
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Housing Tax Credits Find Home in Market
Description: Article explains how low-income tax credits have helped encourage developers to renovate historic buildings. The steady demand for such housing and the availability of state and federal tax credits are a "steady investment for local banks."
Date: 2008-07-11
Object Type: Newspaper Article

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