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Title: Athenaeum Club
Description: Photograph of the Kansas City Athenaeum building at the corner of Campbell St. and Linwood Boulevard circa 1981. The building, designed by architect Samuel Tarbet and opened in 1914, serves was the home for the Kansas City Women's Athenaeum Club, which was founded in 1894 and focused on cultural programming for local women. With club membership dwindling, the building was sold to the Kansas City alumnae chapter of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority in 2015. The LaSalle apartment building, a 14-story building which served as apartments, a hotel, and senior housing and was demolished in 2001, can be seen to the east of the Athenaeum.
Date: 1981~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Athenaeum Club
Description: Photograph of the Kansas City Athenaeum building at the corner of Campbell St. and Linwood Boulevard circa 1981. The building, designed by architect Samuel Tarbet and opened in 1914, serves as the home for the Kansas City Women's Athenaeum Club, which was founded in 1894 and focused on cultural programming for local women. With club membership dwindling, the building was sold to the Kansas City alumnae chapter of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority in 2015. The LaSalle apartment building, seen in the photograph with the name Defenders' Townhouse, Inc., was a senior housing facility at 922 Linwood. The 14-story building also served as apartments and a hotel and was demolished in 2001.
Date: 1981~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Trinity United Methodist Church
Description: Photograph of the Trinity United Methodist Church at 620 East Armour Boulevard in the early 1980s. Designed by George Fuller Green, the church was built in 1918. Armour Park Apartments, to its west, can be seen at the left of the image.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Central Presbyterian Church
Description: Photograph of the Central Presbyterian Church at the southeast corner of Armour and Campbell in the early 1980s. The congregation, founded in 1866, has resided at this location since 1921. The Wrennmoor apartment building, at 915 East Armour, can be seen standing to the east of the church. The building opened in 1927, but was condemned after multiple arson fires in 1988. It was demolished in 1995.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Clyde Manor Apartments
Description: Photograph from about 1980 of Clyde Manor Apartments, at the corner of Gillham Road and Armour Boulevard, designed sometime between 1930 and 1944 by Architect Philip T. Drotts. The building was listed in 1982 in the Kansas City Register of Historic Places as part of the Armour/Gillham Historic Apartment Hotel District.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 1000-02 East 33rd Street
Description: Photograph of an apartment building at 1000-02 East 33rd Street in the early 1980s. The majority of the houses and apartments on this block were demolished in the decades following the photograph.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Georgian Court Apartments
Description: Photograph of the Georgian Court Apartments at 400 East Armour Boulevard, the northeast corner of Armour and Gillham Road, in the early 1980s. Designed by Shepard, Farrar & Wiser, the Georgian Court was built in 1917. At the time of the photograph, the buildings served as federally subsidized housing.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 1000-02 East 33rd Street
Description: Photograph of an apartment building at 1000-02 East 33rd Street in the early 1980s. The majority of the houses and apartments on this block were demolished in the decades following the photograph.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Windemere Apartments
Description: Photograph of the Windemere Apartments building at 601-607 East Armour Boulevard in the early 1980s. The buildings were constructed in 1922-23, and served as a residential care facility for individuals with psychological issues in the 1970s. That facility closed in 1978, and by 1980 the building returned to use as an apartment building. The Kenwood Apartments, at the southwest corner of Armour and Kenwood, are visible at the left of the image.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 4341-43 Harrison Street
Description: Photograph of a six-plex colonnade apartment building at 4341-43 Harrison Street in the 1980s.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Newbern Apartments
Description: Photograph of the main doorway of the Newbern Apartments building at 525 East Armour Boulevard in the early 1980s. Built in 1921, the building was originally known as the Peacock Hotel, but was renamed Newbern in 1925.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 4024-26 Troost Avenue
Description: Photograph of a three-story apartment building at 4024-26 Troost Avenue in the early 1980s. The apartments were built in the early 1920s and is part of a row of six identical buildings.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Wrennmoor Apartments
Description: Photograph of the Wrennmoor apartment building at the southwest corner of Armour and Harrison in the early 1980s. A sign in front advertises 1- and 2-bedroom apartments and studios for rent. The building opened in 1927, but was condemned after multiple arson fires in 1988. It was demolished in 1995. The Central Presbyterian Church at 3501 Campbell can be seen at the right of the photograph. The congregation, founded in 1866, has resided at this location since 1921.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Sombart Apartments
Description: Photograph of the Sombart Apartments building at 420 East Armour Boulevard in the early 1980s. Designed by architect L. H. Vade, the Sombart was built in 1924. Part of the Georgian Court Apartments can be seen at the left of the image.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Newbern Apartments
Description: Photograph of the main doorway of the Newbern Apartments building at 525 East Armour Boulevard in the early 1980s. Built in 1921, the building was originally known as the Peacock Hotel, but was renamed Newbern in 1925.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Brownhardt Apartments
Description: Photograph of the Brownhardt Apartments at the southeast corner of Armour and Campbell in the early 1980s. The building, designed by architect Alonzo Gentry, opened in 1929.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Newbern Apartments
Description: Photograph of the main doorway of the Newbern Apartments building at 525 East Armour Boulevard in the early 1980s. Built in 1921, the building was originally known as the Peacock Hotel, but was renamed Newbern in 1925.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kenwood Apartments
Description: Photograph of the Kenwood Apartments at 500 East Armour Boulevard in the early 1980s. The building, originally constructed as a single family home in 1910, was also known as the Henry B. Duke Residence after the original owner. The home was converted to a rooming house by the late 1930s, and later to a multi-family apartment building.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 405-07 & 409 East Armour Boulevard
Description: Photograph of the Windsor Manor Apartments, at 409-11 East Armour Boulevard, and the Richilieu Apartments at 405-07 East Armour, in the early 1980s. Windsor Manor was built in 1924 and designed by local architect Nelle Peters. The Richilieu was built in 1923. The Gillham Plaza office building, at the southwest corner of Armour and Gillham, can be seen in the background of the image.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Athenaeum Club
Description: Photograph of the Kansas City Athenaeum building at the corner of Campbell St. and Linwood Boulevard circa 1981. The building, designed by architect Samuel Tarbet and opened in 1914, serves was the home for the Kansas City Women's Athenaeum Club, which was founded in 1894 and focused on cultural programming for local women. With club membership dwindling, the building was sold to the Kansas City alumnae chapter of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority in 2015. The LaSalle apartment building, a 14-story building which served as apartments, a hotel, and senior housing and was demolished in 2001, can be seen to the east of the Athenaeum.
Date: 1981~
Object Type: Photograph

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