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Title: Grand Avenue
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Warwick Street City Directory Entry
Description: Listing for "Warwick, changed to Grand av."
Date: 1896
Object Type: Book Section

Title: Hughes' Kansas City Views
Description: Photo of Grand Avenue, looking south from 12th Street.
Date: 1896
Object Type: Book

Title: Grand Avenue
Description: Article about the origins of Grand Avenue in the road built by Peter Roi (also known as Peter Roy) to his river ferry in the 1820s-1830s. Grand Avenue was the first outlet from the river front that bridged the gap between Westport Landing and old Westport, sharing this honor with Main Street, its companion highway, which was cut through the cliffs of clay and limestone at a later date.
Date: 1938-10-16
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Urban Renewal Plan for the Grand Avenue South Urban Renewal Plan of Kansas City, Missouri
Description: Booklet about the redevelopment of the industrial area roughly between 21st, Grand, 18th, and Cherry Streets, with maps of existing and proposed changes in land use to remove blight.
Date: 1983-10
Object Type: Book

Title: When Did Grand Avenue Become Grand Boulevard?
Description: According to this question and answer column that appeared in the Star Magazine, Grand Avenue became a boulevard in 1993. "The change affects the stretch of Grand Avenue from Crown Center on the south to the Missouri River on the north. Businesses along the boulevard now pay higher taxes and receive additional maintenance services from the Parks Department."
Date: 1994-11-13
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Proposed Street
Description: View looking east on 48th Street from Grand Avenue. Includes outline of proposed trafficway widening, and several children are pictured on sidewalks.
Date: 1926
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Centropolis Hotel
Description: Street level view looking northwest at the southeast corner of 5th and Grand. The Centropolis, built in 1880, was the first hotel in Kansas City to install electric lighting. "As Kansas City moved southward and new hotels were built, the old Centropolis gradually faded. In later years only part of the imposing structure was used as a hotel" as shown in this photograph. For more about the hotel see this postcard and accompanying historical article http://www.kchistory.org/u?/Mrs,1292.
Date: 1940
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Grand Avenue, South from 12th Street
Description: Postcard of Grand Avenue, south from 12th Street.
Date: 1909
Object Type: Postcard

Title: Grand Avenue, North from 12th Street
Description: Postcard of Grand Avenue, facing north from 12th Street.
Object Type: Postcard

Title: 5th Street
Description: Storefronts along south side of 5th Street, between Walnut and Grand, including "Bond Lunch" diner, a barbershop, and "Fern Laundry."
Date: 1940
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Speaking the Public Mind: Grand Avenue, the A's, Isaiah, and Signs
Description: Photo and letter to the editor by Howard Planck of 414 East 10th Street about the positive attributes of Grand Avenue, the "most inspiring street of our crowded downtown," especially "the strip from Eighth to Twelfth." Urban planning recommendations for removal of clutter with trees and shrubbery due to their negative effect on view and cleanliness. Also letters from citizens including Fred Riley, son of "Mrs. Lee Riley (Mary), who for many years wrote the 'Mrs. Wood B. Highbrow' articles in The Sunday Star."
Date: 1960-09-12
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Grand Avenue
Description: Street level view looking southwest from the northeast corner of 5th and Grand.
Date: 1943
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Missouri Avenue
Description: Storefronts along north side of Missouri Avenue, west from Grand.
Date: 1940
Object Type: Photograph

Title: KC Street Intersections
Description: Four photos of intersections: (1) "Main Street south from Eighth Street;" (2) "Walnut Street south from Ninth Street;" (3) "Grand Avenue south from Eighth Street;" and (4) "Eleventh Street [also known as Petticoat Lane] east from Main Street."
Date: 1911~
Object Type: Book

Title: Grand Avenue, North from 12th Street
Description: Postcard of Grand Avenue looking north from 12th Street.
Date: 1913~
Object Type: Postcard

Title: Wawick Boulevard City Directory Entry
Description: Listing for "Warwick Boulevard, first w. of McGee from one-half block n. of Twenty-sixth s. to Twenty-seventh, also continuation of Grand av. From Linwood s. to Forty-seventh."
Date: 1897
Object Type: Book Section

Title: Grand Avenue, South from 8th Street
Description: Postcard of Grand Avenue facing south from 8th Street.
Date: 1912~
Object Type: Postcard

Title: 11th and Grand Avenue, Looking North
Description: Postcard of the intersection of 11th Street and Grand Avenue facing north.
Date: 1912~
Object Type: Postcard

Title: Our Own Grand Avenue as the Kings of the "Uglies" Would Have It Appear
Description: Fictionalized illustration of Grand Avenue with buildings, streets, and even the space directly above the street covered with signs of all kinds, in a criticism of institutions unfavorable toward open public space.
Date: 1922-07-23
Object Type: Newspaper Article

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