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Title: Historic Kansas City Architecture
Description: Photos of the residence of Nathan Scarritt at 4038 Central Street (originally 305 Lawrence Street), listed as being built in 1847.
Date: 1975
Object Type: Book

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: Historic Old Westport
Description: Map showing historic Westport, Missouri. Includes current and original street names, location of homes and businesses (including original and modern site, if relocated).
Object Type: Map

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: Historic Westport: Scarritt House to National Registry
Description: Story about the preservation of the Nathan Scarritt residence, "what the State Historical Society of Missouri calls the oldest house in the Westport area--and one of the few early buildings remaining," used as a decorating business office at 4038 Central Street.
Date: 1978-07
Object Type: Magazine Article

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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