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Title: Town Topic--Across the Great Divide
Description: Article about the improvements and lingering stigma of the Troost Avenue as a boundary line for the east part of town's racial, socioeconomic, and crime problems, despite revived businesses in the corridor, roughly between 47th, Main, 75th, and Prospect Avenues.
Date: 1999-02
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: South Troost Development Lines Mark Expansion of Trade Artery: Improvements Enhance City's Longest Street from 27th to 75th--Several New Buildings Ready for Occupancy
Description: Article with photos and description of the widening and paving of Troost Avenue ("the longest street in the city") south to 75th Street in the 1920s, coinciding with other building and business development along it ("engineered by the Westbrook Investment company," led by David Proctor and N. W. Dible).
Date: 1929-12-28
Object Type: Newspaper Article

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

Title: Troost Avenue
Description: Postcard showing Troost Avenue looking north towards 31st Street.
Object Type: Postcard

Title: Aerial View of Kansas City, Missouri
Description: Aerial photograph of one square mile of Kansas City, Missouri showing the area from Troost Avenue to Prospect Avenue and at least 33rd to 39th Streets including Armour Boulevard. Map identified from set as Section 21, Township 49N, Range 33W, S-75.
Date: 1964-04
Object Type: Map

Title: Aerial View of Kansas City, Missouri
Description: Aerial photograph of one square mile of Kansas City, Missouri showing the area around Troost Avenue and Gregory Boulevard. Map identified from set as Section 9, Township 48N, Range 33W, S-123.
Date: 1964-01
Object Type: Map

Title: Good Roads and Safe Bridges
Description: Booklet filled with photos of Troost Avenue and Wornall Road south of 63rd Street and Blue Avenue or 15th Street, as well as other main arteries, illustrating the need for road maintenance.
Date: 1908-10
Object Type: Book

Title: The Trouble With Troost
Description: Despite the title, the focus of the article is the resurgence of Troost Avenue over the last decade. While Troost was a thriving commercial and residential corridor in the early 20th century, by the 1960s it had become blighted and came to epitomize the decline of the inner city and race relations in Kansas City. In recent years, however, various neighborhood groups, entrepreneurs, organizations and community leaders have worked toward revitalizing the corridor. The article spotlights the redevelopment efforts of several of these groups.
Date: 2007-08
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Chasing the Devil Down Troost
Description: Article about Reverend John Birmingham and his followers in their crusade to stop vice and promote family values along Troost Avenue, especially drinking and "lewd" dancing, such as found at the Yum Yum Lounge at 3223 Troost Avenue.
Date: 1982-05
Object Type: Magazine Article

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