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Title: 1400 Block of 39th Street
Description: Photograph of the south side of the 1400 block of West 39th Street, circa 1990. Victory Chapel stands in a storefront at the corner of 39th and Terrace, and McDonald Printing occupies the storefront to its west.
Date: 1990~
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: 1981~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Ambassador Apartments
Description: Photograph of the front porch of Ambassador Apartments at 441 Knickerbocker Place, circa 1981. The building, called Ambassador B, and its twin neighbor to the east, Ambassador A, were designed by local architect Nelle Peters and were built by the Ambassador Hotel to serve as overflow guest rooms in 1927 and were later used as apartments. Both buildings were razed in 2012.
Date: 1981~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Knickerbocker North Apartments
Description: Photograph of the doorway of 524 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: 1981~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Ambassador Apartments
Description: Photograph of architectural detailing on the upper levels of the Ambassador Apartments at 435 Knickerbocker Place, circa 1981. The building, called Ambassador A, and its twin neighbor to the west, Ambassador B, were designed by local architect Nelle Peters and were built by the Ambassador Hotel to serve as overflow guest rooms in 1927 and were later used as apartments. Both buildings were razed in 2012.
Date: 1981~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 9-23 East 34th Street
Description: Photograph of the rear 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, including the neighboring white building at the right edge of this image.
Date: 1984~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Ambassador Apartments
Description: Photograph of the Ambassador Apartments at 441 Knickerbocker Place, circa 1981. The building, called Ambassador B, and its twin neighbor to the east, Ambassador A, were designed by local architect Nelle Peters and were built by the Ambassador Hotel to serve as overflow guest rooms in 1927 and were later used as apartments. Both buildings were razed in 2012.
Date: 1981~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 101-03 East 40th Street
Description: Photograph of apartment buildings at the southeast corner of 40th and Walnut Streets, including Merton Hall at 101 East 40th Street, circa 1980. Merton Hall, and the Elmore Apartments building to the east, are eight-plex Kansas City Colonnade buildings, with columned porches at their fronts, built in the early 1920s. Merton Hall suffered a major fire in April 1983, and was torn down a week later. The others buildings in view in the image were later also demolished and the property used by the neighboring St. Paul's Episcopal Church as sports fields and gardens.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 34th & Main Streets
Description: Photograph of a view of 34th Street looking east from Main Street circa 1980, including houses and commercial and apartment buildings. 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~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 39th & Main Streets
Description: Photograph of the north side of the 39th and Main Street intersection circa 1983. The Hyde Park Building, on the northeast corner of the intersection, is undergoing renovations. The Price Candy Company Building, at 2 West 39th Street, has New Earth Books and Records as a ground floor tenant. Foolkiller Theater, a longtime tenant and building owner, also occupies the building. The Netherlands Hotel apartment building is visible in the background of the image.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 3731-33 Summit Street
Description: Photograph of the apartment building at 3731-33 Summit Street (also Southwest Trafficway) circa 1980, with a ladder leaned against the building. All built in the early 1920s, it is abutted by three identical buildings, the back of one can be seen at the right of the photograph, standing around the corner and facing south on 38th Street.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Board of Trade Building
Description: Photograph of the Board of Trade building, looking northwest from the intersection of 49th and Main Streets, circa 1980. The Kansas City Board of trade moved to this building in 1966. The Sulgrave Apartments tower, at 121 West 48th Street, can be seen at the left edge of the image.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 100 Block of Brooklyn Avenue
Description: Photograph of the west side of the 100 block of Brooklyn Avenue, looking north from 132 Brooklyn in the 1980s. A three-story apartment building at 122 Brooklyn stands toward the right side of the image.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 300 Block of Olive Street
Description: Photograph circa 1980s looking south, capturing the east side of the 300 block of Olive Street. On the left is a multi-family home at 331-333 Olive Street, built in 1900. Visible to the south, across the intersection at Elma Street is 403 Olive Street, which was demolished in 2001. Next to it is 405 Olive Street, a single family home built in 1917. And to the south is 411 Olive Street, a four-unit apartment building, built in 1890. Located in the Pendleton Heights neighborhood.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 229 Park Avenue
Description: Photograph circa 1980s of a single family home at 229 Park Avenue, built in 1890, in the foreground. Apartment buildings to the east are 2324 - 26 Lexington Avenue and at 228 Olive Street, both also built in 1890. Located in the Pendleton Heights neighborhood.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 3000 Block of Grand Avenue
Description: Photograph of the west side of the 3000 block of Grand Avenue in the early 1980s. Houses picture span from 3034 Grand north to 3020 Grand, and apartment buildings at 3010 and 3014 Grand are also pictured on the north end of the blocks. Apartment buildings that had formerly stood to the south of the houses had been demolished to create a parking lot for the KCPT studio which stands across 31st Street.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 700 Block of West 47th Street
Description: Photograph looking east down 47th Street from Summit Street in the 1980s. The Unity Temple bell tower is visible on the south side of the street. The Plaza Court (formerly Haven Hill) Apartments building, at 700-08 West 47th, is visible on the left. Haven Hill was demolished in 1989 for the construction of an office tower.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 9-23 East 34th Street
Description: Photograph of a section of the 9-23 East 34th Street rowhouse building in the early 1980s, prior to a major 1984 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: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 1206 & 1212 East Armour Boulevard
Description: Photograph of houses at 1206 and 1212 East Armour Boulevard in the early 1980s. The house on the left, 1206 E. Armour, was built in 1904 and has been called the William F. Stine Residence after the original owner. The neighboring house, 1212 E. Armour, was also built in 1904 and has been called the John W. German Residence after its original owner. Both houses were later converted to multi-family residences, and the house at 1212 Armour became Fellowship House halfway house for men on parole or probation in 1980. To their west, at the corner of Armour and Tracy in the early 1980s, the Armour Plaza Apartments building is also pictured. The building was designed by Defoe and Besecke and opened in 1925. It was condemned after a fire in 1985 and demolished in 1995.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 9-23 East 34th Street
Description: Photograph of a section of the ground floor level 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, including the neighboring white building at the right edge of this image.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

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