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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: Werby Building
Description: Photograph of the Werby Building at the southeast corner of 39th and Main Streets in 1979. The building was designed by Greenebaum, Hardy and Schumacher, opened in 1924, and consisted of office spaces on the second floor and storefronts on the ground level. Efforts to save the building from demolition led to Mayor Richard Berkley named a week in April 1979 "Werby Week," but it was razed not long after. Signs on plywood boards across the storefronts advertise a "Take Back the Night" event, an anti-nuclear energy rally to take place in Burlington, Kansas, at the Wolf Creek Generating Station, and upcoming concerts. The Hyde Park Building, on the northeast corner of 39th and Main, can be seen at the left of the photo, with the Hotel Netherlands to its north.
Date: 1979
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: 3825-3849 Main Street
Description: Photograph of the 3800 block of Main Street, including the Normandy Building at 3825-37 Main, the Monarch Storage Warehouse at 3829 Main, and the Netherlands Hotel and apartment building at 3835 Main, circa 1982. The Monarch Building was designed in 1921 by architect C. B. Sloan, and the metal facade on the lower two levels was added in 1963. The building housed the American White Goods Company at the time of the photograph.The 3835 Main building opened as the Tocama Apartments in 1928 and designed by architect Robert F. Gornall, and was in 1931 was renamed the Netherlands Hotel, continuing to serve as an apartment building and hotel. It was vacant at the time of this photograph after the city deemed it a dangerous building. Shortly thereafter, it was renovated and renamed the Hawthorne Plaza Apartments. A section of the boarded-up Hyde Park Building is also visible at the right edge of the photograph.
Date: 1982~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 39th and Main Streets
Description: Photograph of the intersection of 39th and Main Streets in the early 1980s. The Netherlands Hotel apartment building and commercial Hyde Park building can be seen on the northeast corner, and the New Earth Books & Records store in the former Price Candy Company building on the northwest corner. A Mobil gas station stands on the southwest corner. The photograph was taken after the demolition of the Werby Building on the southeast corner, circa 1980.
Date: 1980~/1989~
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: 1600 Block of West 39th Street
Description: Photograph of buildings on the north side of the 1600 block of West 39th Street circa 1990. Atomic Electric Company, at 1610 W. 39th, and Mr. Z's In and Out convenience store, at 1600 W. 39th, are among the businesses pictured.
Date: 1990~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 2523-25 Cherry Street
Description: Photograph of the Abbie apartment building at 2523-25 Cherry Street in the early 1980s. The building was demolished in 2013 to make way for the construction of a new Ronald McDonald House facility to serve the nearby Children's Mercy Hospital.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Unidentified Apartment Building
Description: Photoraph of an unidentified apartment building in the 1980s.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 3121-23 Main Street
Description: Photograph of a commercial and residential building being demolished at 3121-23 Main Street in the early 1990s. The entirety of the block was later razed to make way for the construction of a YMCA Children's Center Campus in the 1990s. The Boatmen's Bank building, on the southwest corner of 31st and Main, can be seen in the background.
Date: 1990~/1999~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 105-17 North Gladstone Boulevard
Description: Photograph circa 1980s of a single family home at 117 N. Gladstone Boulevard, built in 1916 and two apartment buildings at 105 N. Gladstone Boulevard, built in 1921. Located in the Scarritt Point neighborhood.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Whitehall Apartments
Description: Photograph circa 1980s of the Whitehall Apartments building at 323 Brush Creek Boulevard (renamed Emanuel Cleaver II Boulevard in 1999) built in 1923.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Wayne Miner Court
Description: Photograph circa early 1980s of the Wayne Miner Court Apartment complex at 1940 East 11th Street. The building was demolished in 1987. Located in the Parkview neighborhood.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 540-2 Park Avenue East
Description: Photograph circa 1980s of an apartment building at 540-2 Park Avenue East, built in 1910. Located in the Pendleton Heights neighborhood.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 5027-5029 Wyandotte Street
Description: Photograph circa 1980s of a multi-family home at 5027-5029 Wyandotte Street, built in 1926. Located in the South Plaza neighborhood.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 3110 Grand Avenue
Description: Photograph circa 1980s of an apartment building at 3110 - 3112 Grand Avenue. Built in 1924, it was called the Springhurst Apartments. In 2017, it was demolished.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 5021-5023 Wyandotte Street
Description: Photograph circa 1980s of a multi-family home at 5021-5023 Wyandotte Street, built in 1926. Located in the South Plaza neighborhood.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 411-413 Olive Street
Description: Photograph circa 1980s of 411-413 Olive Street, a four-unit apartment building, built in 1890. Located in the Pendleton Heights neighborhood.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 542 Park Avenue East
Description: Photograph circa 1980s of an apartment building at 540-542 Park Avenue East, built in 1910. Located in the Pendleton Heights neighborhood.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Park Castles Apartments
Description: Photograph circa 1980s of the Park Castles Apartment building at 309-11 Brush Creek Boulevard (renamed Emanuel Cleaver II Boulevard in 1999) built in 1929.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

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