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Title: 1217 East Armour Boulevard
Description: Photographs of houses at 1217 East Armour Boulevard and 1215 East Armour in the early 1980s. Both homes were subdivided into multiple apartments after being initially built as single family homes. 1217 E. Armour was built in 1906 and has been called the George Hucke Residence after the initial owner, a prominent local contractor. The house at 1215 E. Armour was built in 1904 and has been called the Julius Baer Residence after its original owner, a local optometrist.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 39th and Main Streets
Description: Photograph of the northeast corner of 39th and Main Streets, circa 1980, including the Hotel Netherlands apartment building. The Hyde Park building, at right, opened in 1916, and at the time of this photo, the ground floor was occupied by the Adult Literary Guild adult bookstore, which was evicted in 1982 as part of a neighborhood redevelopment effort lead by J. Nelson Happy.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 1003 West 38th Street
Description: Photograph of a multi-family townhouse building at 1003 West 38th Street in the early 1980s. A twin building faces the photographed building to its west on 38th Street.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 546 Olive Street
Description: Photograph circa 1980s looking north toward Elma Street, capturing the block of stores and homes on the west side of the street. On the left is 546 Olive Street, a building which has housed several businesses, including a beauty shop. It is also an apartment home, with a bedroom and garage. Next to that building is 540 - 538 Olive Street, a two-story duplex. To the north of that is a single family home at 536 Olive Street, built in 1890. Next to that is a two-story duplex which was demolished sometime after the photo was taken. The next visible home, to the north, is 526 Olive Street, built in 1890. Located in the Pendleton Heights neighborhood.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 35 to 119 East 34th Street
Description: Photograph of a row of single-family houses on the north side of 34th Street, between Main Street and Warwick Boulevard. The house in the foreground of the image is 119 East 34th Street. A brick apartment building also stands in the background of the image. The area, south of Linwood Boulevard to 34th Terrace, between Main and Gillham, was deemed blighted and ridden with crime and drugs in the late 1980s, and this house, as well as other homes, apartments, and commercial buildings, were demolished in the early and mid-'90s as part of the so-called "Glover Plan" to be replaced by the Midtown Marketplace development, a large commercial development anchored by big box retailers Home Depot and Costco.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 200 Olive Street
Description: Photograph circa 1980s looking west at the corner of Olive Street and Pendleton Avenue. The three-story building is at 200 Olive Street, a multi-family home, built in 1900. Located in the Pendleton Heights neighborhood.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 3900 Block of Wyandotte
Description: Photographs of houses and apartment buildings on the east side of the 3900 block of Wyandotte Street in the early 1980s. Many houses and other buildings on the block were demolished to make space for parking lots.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Alley between 603 W. 33rd Street and 300 Pennsylvania Avenue
Description: Photograph looking south down the alley between an apartment building at 609-11 West 33rd Street and the Browne's Irish Market building at 300 Pennsylvania Avenue in the early 1980s. The building which houses Browne's Irish Market stands east of the apartment building, at the left of the image. This apartment and the Browne's building are two of the few buildings remaining on their block after a effort in the 1970s and early 1980s by the Kansas City Life Insurance Company to redevelop the area into an office park.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 2511 & 2515 Amie Street
Description: Photograph of duplexes at 2511-13 and 2515-17 Amie Street, looking west on Amie, in the 1980s. The building at 2515-17 was built circa 1900, with the other being built in later decades.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 406 West 46th Terrace
Description: Photograph of an apartment building at 406 West 46th Terrace in the early 1980s. The building, along with neighboring apartment buildings on the north side of 46th Terrace, were demolished to make way for the Valencia Place office building project, the groundbreaking for which took place in November 1997.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Sheridan Apartments
Description: Photograph of the Sheridan Apartments building at 1305-07 East Armour Boulevard in the early 1980s. Designed by local architect Nelle E. Peters, the building opened in 1921, and was named the Yaletown Apartments after a 2010s renovation. A neighboring apartment building and replaced with a parking lot. The neighboring building at the right of the image, the Linda Vista Apartment building, was also designed by Nelle E. Peters, and opened in 1925. At the time of the photograph, units in the building were recently renovated and available as federally subsidized housing.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 100-06 West Armour Boulevard
Description: Photograph circa 1980s of the apartment building at 100-06 West Armour Boulevard. Built in 1902-03 and designed by architect John W. McKecknie, it underwent a major renovation sometime after 2012 and has been renamed as The Colonnade Apartments, along with the apartment buildings on the rest of the block, west toward Wyandotte Street. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Armour Boulevard Multiple Resource Area in 1983 and on the the Kansas City Register of Historic Places as part of the Old Hyde Park Historic District in 1994. Located in the Midtown neighborhood.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 412 & 22 West 47th Street
Description: Photograph of apartment buildings at 412 & 422 West 47th Street in the early 1980s. The buildings, along with all other buildings on the block bound by 47th Street, 46th Terrace, Pennsylvania Avenue, and Broadway, were demolished to make way for the Valencia Place office building project, the groundbreaking for which took place in November 1997.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 4442 J. C. Nichols Parkway
Description: Photograph circa 1980s of an apartment building at 4442 JC Nichols Parkway. It was demolished sometime before 2006, when new condominiums were constructed on the same parcel. Located in the Plaza neighborhood.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 9-23 East 34th Street
Description: Photograph of the 9-23 East 34th Street rowhouse building circa 1984, during a major renovation and rehabilitation project. This block of rowhouse apartments was constructed in 1888, prior to the area's annexation by Kansas City, and were once known as the Hyde Park Apartments. The majority of buildings on the block were razed in the 1980s and 1990s for additional parking lots and to expand the Foreign Language Academy's campus.
Date: 1984~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Seville Plaza Apartments
Description: Photograph of the Seville Plaza Apartments, at 4545-47 Main Street, circa 1981. While most of the buildings on the block were razed to for parking lots or new hotels and other construction, this building remains as of 2018.
Date: 1981~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 301-21 East 43rd Street
Description: Photograph of a block of Kansas City sixplex colonnade apartments at 301-21 East 43rd Street, at the corner of 43rd and McGee, circa 1981. These apartments, in a variation on a style common in the city, were built in the early 1920s, and remain standing as of 2018.
Date: 1981~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Walnut Street Shops
Description: Photograph of the Walnut Street Shops, 12-26 East 39th Street, with windows boarded up prior to a renovation project in 1983-84. The Hyde Park Building can also be seen at the left of the image, and the Netherlands Hotel building can be seen in the background. The Netherlands was soon to undergo its own renovation and be redubbed "Hawthorne Plaza."
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Knickerbocker North Apartments
Description: Photograph of 500 Knickerbocker Place, part of the Knickerbocker Apartments on the north side of Knickerbocker Place, circa 1981. The block of apartments were razed in 1982 for a Kansas City Life Insurance Company expansion project. The twin building on the south side of the street was still standing as of 2018. Both were built circa 1910 and designed by architect Leon Grant Middaugh.
Date: 1980~
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

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