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Title: Close Encounters
Description: Article describes "winning proposals for Kansas City's 2006 Avenue of the Arts". Artists and teams are: Miki Baird, Rolf and Margaret Brommelesiek, Julia Cole and Leigh Rosser, Jorge Garcia, Milton F. Stevenson V and Susan White.
Date: 2006-03-01
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Avenue of the Arts 2006 Features Siz New Installations
Description: The sixth annual Avenue of the Arts exhibit on Central Street features: Miki Baird, Sidewalk Confetti; Susan White, Lyric Lascaux; Jorge Garcia, A Minor Code; Margaret & Rolf Brommelsiek, Rabone 9; Milton F. Stevson, V: Balls on Bartle; and Julia Cole/Leigh Rosser: Sky Funnel.
Date: 2006-07-01
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Nathan Scarritt Home
Description: View looking west of the Nathan Scarritt Home at 4038 Central Street.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 52nd Street from Central Street
Description: View looking northeast along 52nd Street from Central Street; includes proposed roadway and Wyandotte Street.
Date: 1926
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 12th Street
Description: Looking east along the north side of 12th between Central and Wyandotte.
Date: 1976
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kansas City Custom Garment Company Building
Description: View of the Kansas City Custom Garment Company Building that once stood at 301-303 10th Street, or the southwest corner of 10th and Central streets. The view is taken from Central Street and is facing northwest. Several cars parked in the lot behind the building can be seen.
Date: 1983~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Folly Theater
Description: View looking northwest of the Folly Theater at 12th and Central streets. Cars parked along Central Street can be seen. The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception is in view in the background.
Date: 1990~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Nathan Scarritt Home
Description: View looking north of the Nathan Scarritt Home at 4038 Central Street.
Date: 1990~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Montrose Building
Description: View looking north of the Montrose building at the corner of Main and 40th streets. The road on the right hand side of the image is Central Street.The building was built in 1923, was also known as the Ten-Forty Apartments, and was demolished in early 1998 and the site used for a parking lot. Cars parked along Central Street can be seen. A pedestrian walking on 40th Street is in view.
Date: 1990~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Montrose Building
Description: View looking southwest of the Montrose Building, once located at the intersection of 40th and Main streets. The vantage point of this image is from Central Street and shows the building's northeast side. The building was built in 1923, was also known as the Ten-Forty Apartments, and was demolished in 1998 and the site used for a parking lot. A truck parked on Central Street can be seen. The rear, northeast side of the Thriftway grocery store is in view on the right hand side of the image.
Date: 1990~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: SC223 Folly Theater Collection Finding Aid
Description: Open since 1900, the Folly Theater has assumed several names and identities over the decades, from a vaudeville, burlesque, and Shakespearean playhouse to an X-rated movie theater. Today, it serves as Kansas City’s oldest performing arts venue. The Folly Theater Collection contains photographs, scrapbooks, posters, administrative and financial records, building blueprints, and various artifacts that document the theater’s diverse history.
Date: 1877/2014
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: A Street and City of Resurrected Dreams
Description: Discusses the implementation of several sculptures along Central Avenue from 10th to 14th Street as part of the KC150 celebration, and the unveiling of a Donald Lipski sculpture outside the Poindexter Parking Structure at 9th and Central.
Date: 2000-06
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Avenue of the Arts
Description: Details the various scultpural pieces along Central from 16th to 9th, the "Avenue of the Arts".
Date: 2001-06
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Milner Hotel and Savoy Grill
Description: Street view of the Milner Hotel (formerly the Savoy Hotel), the Savoy Grill (209 W. 9th Street), and other businesses near the southeast corner of 9th and Central. Other businesses shown include Frisco's Cafe, C & O Distributing Co., and the Newby Sign Company.
Date: 1950~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Those Old Houses on Central
Description: Article about the history and future of the houses on the 3900 block of Central Street, designated as the Westport Post Office's new parking lot.
Date: 1977-10
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: The Story of 616: Reclaiming Kansas City's History
Description: Article about the Garment District building at 616 Central Street renovated into loft apartments occupied mainly by artists moving out of the dangerous nearby River Quay and other old areas of town.
Date: 1977-10
Object Type: Magazine Article

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