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Title: Schutte Lumber Company
Description: Aerial view looking south showing the Schutte Lumber Company, located at 3001 Southwest Boulevard.
Date: 1950
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Neptune Apartments
Description: Elevated photograph, looking north from Nichols Road, of the Neptune Apartments building and adjacent Plaza rooftops circa 1987. The Parkway Towers apartment building is seen in the background right of the image.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: J. C. Nichols Parkway Apartments
Description: Photograph looking west from the top of the Fountain View (later American Century Investments north tower) of apartments and other buildings along and west of J. C. Nichols Parkway, circa 1987. Three of the six foreground apartment buildings were later demolished for a new townhome project. The Parkway Towers apartment building can be seen at the left edge of the image, and parking garages for the St. Luke's Hospital campus are visible at the right edge of the image.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Nichols Road Storefronts
Description: Photograph of a building at the northwest corner of Nichols Road and Central Street, circa 1987. Superlatives clothing store occupies the corner storefront at 234 Nichols, with Caswell-Masey to its east at 230 Nichols.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Stranger's Guide to Kansas City, Missouri
Description: A reproduction of the 1887 Case and Norman's Stranger's Guide which appeared in The Kansas City Star around 1927 that shows an aerial view of business and industrial districts of Kansas City as seen from the northwest. Indicates population in 1887 as 160,000 and in 1880 as 57,000. Prominent landmarks, buildings, and businesses are numbered to correlate with list at the bottom. Portion of text on map reads: "The map reproduced above shows the city of 'Forty Years Ago' whose social and industrial activities are reflected daily in the familiar column under that caption in the Star's morning edition. Supplement to the Kansas City Commercial."
Date: 1927
Object Type: Map

Title: Nelson Art Gallery
Description: Photograph looking east from the top of the Fountain View (later American Century Investments north tower) of the west side of the Nelson Art Gallery, circa 1987. The Simpson House can be seen in the foreground of the image.
Date: 1987~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Hilton Plaza Hotel and Southmoreland Neighborhood
Description: Photograph, looking east from the top of the Fountain View (later American Century Investments north tower), of the Hilton Plaza Hotel at 1 East 45th Street circa 1987. To the east across Walnut Street, the All Souls Unitarian Church is pictured at the left edge of the image, and the Simpson House, at 4509 Walnut, and the Montreux apartments stand to the south. The Oak Hall and Sophian Plaza apartment buildings are also pictured at right, and the Nelson Art Gallery can be seen to the east.
Date: 1987~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Hilton Plaza Hotel and Southmoreland Neighborhood
Description: Photograph, looking east from the top of the Fountain View (later American Century Investments north tower), of the Hilton Plaza Inn at 1 East 45th Street circa 1987. The Montreux apartments, at 4515 Walnut, are visible to the east The Oak Hall and Sophian Plaza apartment buildings are also pictured in the background of the image.
Date: 1987~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Hilton Plaza Hotel and Southmoreland Neighborhood
Description: Photograph, looking east from the top of the Fountain View (later American Century Investments north tower), of the Hilton Plaza Inn at 1 East 45th Street circa 1987. The Montreux apartments to its south are to the hotel's east at 4515 Walnut. The Oak Hall and Sophian Plaza apartment buildings are also pictured in the background of the image, along with other apartment buildings lining 47th Street.
Date: 1987~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Vanderslice Hall
Description: Photograph looking east from the top of the Fountain View (later American Century Investments north tower) across the Kansas City Art Institute campus and Southmoreland neighborhood circa 1987. KCAI's Vanderslice Hall occupies the center of the image. A portion of the One Main Plaza office building occupies the lower left corner.
Date: 1987~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: One Main Plaza and Marriott Hotel
Description: Photograph, looking east from the top of the Fountain View (later American Century Investments north tower), of the One Main Plaza office building at 4435 Main and the Marriott Hotel at 4445 Main Street circa 1987. Buildings on the Kansas City Art Institute campus can be seen to the east across Warwick Boulevard.
Date: 1987~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Marriott and Hilton Plaza Hotels
Description: Photograph, looking east from the top of the Fountain View (later American Century Investments north tower), of the Hilton Plaza Hotel at 1 East 45th Street and the Marriott Hotel at 4445 Main Street circa 1987. To the east across Walnut Street, the All Souls Unitarian Church is pictured behind the Marriott, and the Simpson House, at 4509 Walnut, and the Montreux apartments stand to the south. The Nelson Art Gallery is also pictured in the background of the image.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 4300 and 4400 Block of Main Street
Description: Photograph, looking northeast from the top of the Fountain View (later American Century Investments north tower), of the east side of the 4300 and 4400 blocks of Main Street in the late 1980s. The One Main Plaza office building at 4435 Main Street occupies the lower right corner. A QuikTrip convenience store and Best Western hotel stand to its north on Main Street, and the Southmoreland neighborhood stretches to the north and east. Tall residential and office buildings line Armour Boulevard in the background of the image.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Marriott Hotel Main Street
Description: Photograph, looking east from the top of the Fountain View (later American Century Investments north tower), of the Marriott Hotel at 4445 Main Street circa 1987. The hotel stands on the northeast corner of 45th and Main Streets.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Ward Parkway Houses
Description: Photograph of houses on the 500 block of Ward Parkway (later renumbered as the 700 block), taken from inside the Winston Churchill building, overlooking Brush Creek circa 1988. The houses were demolished prior circa 2000.
Date: 1988~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Pratt and Whitney Complex
Description: Aerial view looking southeast of the Pratt and Whitney complex at 9307-9447 Troost Avenue near its intersection with Bannister Road.
Date: 1945
Object Type: Photograph

Title: St. Luke's Hospital
Description: Photograph looking west from the top of the Fountain View (later American Century Investments north tower) St. Luke's Hospital buildings along J. C. Nichols Parkway, circa 1987.
Date: 1987~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kansas City Area Aerial View
Description: Aerial photograph of the downtown Kansas City, West Bottoms, and Kansas City, Kansas areas. The Intercity Viaduct, later renamed the Lewis and Clark Viaduct, spanning the Kansas River is center in the photograph.
Date: 1966~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: St. Luke's and West Plaza
Description: Photograph looking west from the top of the Fountain View (later American Century Investments north tower) across the St. Luke's Hospital campus along J. C. Nichols Parkway, circa 1987. The Plaza West office building, at 4600 Madison, is visible in the background.
Date: 1987~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Downtown Kansas City
Description: View of downtown from high above the Quality Hill area.
Date: 1955
Object Type: Photograph

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