Maps

Title: Proposed Master Plan IX - Downtown Area
Description: Street map of downtown Kansas City, Missouri, displaying an early plan for an expressway loop surrounding the area. Proposed parking lots, garages, public buildings, parks, street improvements, freeways, and tunnels are indicated on the map.
Date: 1947
Object Type: Map

Title: Kansas City's Expressways
Description: Illustrated map showing the planned expressway system in the Kansas City area in 1952. Text printed on the map explains how the freeway system will work and how it will benefit the public. The map displays a plan to route the expressways close to the downtown area of Kansas City, Kansas, that was later changed.
Date: 1952
Object Type: Map

Title: Kansas City, Missouri
Description: Street map of Kansas City indicating proposed changes in the road system, including new streets, streets to be widened, etc. Legend on map. Signatures on map of Director of Public Works, Chairman of City Plan Commission, and President of the Park Board.
Date: 1928
Object Type: Map

Title: Diagonal Thorofare [sic] Connection, Indiana to Cleveland
Description: Map of proposed connection. Map is bounded by Cleveland and Indiana, 41st and 45th. Bottom half of sheet is graph of unknown purpose.
Date: 1949
Object Type: Map

Title: Zoning Maps, Kansas City, Missouri
Description: Zoning ordinance (1923) accompanied with 14 plates of maps "showing use districts."
Date: 1923
Object Type: Map

Title: Construction Phases Map
Description: Map of the Kansas City area showing planned stages of consruction of the expressway system. The map was part of the City Plan Commission's publication Expressways - Greater Kansas City in 1951.
Date: 1951
Object Type: Map

Title: Zoning Map, Kansas City, Missouri
Description: Kansas City, Missouri, color-coded zoning map of nine zone classifications, including residence, retail, and industrial zones. "Information taken from city ordinance No. 45608 and the latest official data of City Plan Commission."
Date: 1923
Object Type: Map