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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: 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: Main Street Storefronts
Description: View looking south of storefronts on Main Street in Midtown just south of its intersection with Westport Road. Several cars can be seen parked and traveling along Main Street. Sings for Clint's Comics, Love Records, The Shape Shop, JR's Discount, Jo Art's Jewelry, Westport Distributors, Harling's Upstairs, and the Salvation Army Thrift Store can be seen. The Hyde Park Building, the Southwell Building, and the Hotel Netherlands are in view.
Date: 1985~
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: Hyde Park Building
Description: Photograph of the Main Street-facing side of the Hyde Park Building, at 3841-49 Main, circa 1980. The image shows the building with damaged windows on its second story, and boarded-up storefronts and damaged terra cotta tiles on the ground level. The building was owned at the time by Kansas City's Land Clearance for Redevelopment Authority and was in the process of evicting adult bookstores and bars in an effort to bring new businesses to the area in hopes of stablizing the neighborhood economically. The city provided funds to assist in renovating the buildings, and the project was complete by the end of 1983. The second floor housed medical offices, and the ground floor included a pharmacy, dentist's office, and other businesses. The neighboring Netherlands Hotel/Hawthorne Plaza apartment building and Walnut Street Shops were also a part of the redevelopment effort.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Zoo in Swope Park, Kansas City, Mo.
Description: Postcard showing the native field stone animal house located in the Swope Park Zoological Garden.
Object Type: Postcard

Title: Liberty Ladies College in Liberty, Mo.
Description: Postcard of Liberty Ladies College, Liberty, MO
Object Type: Postcard

Title: Unidentified Building in School Bus Lot
Description: View of a small, unidentified building in a school bus parking lot. Houses in the background can be seen.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Fountain on Broadway in Country Club Plaza
Description: An autochrome photograph of a fountain in the Country Club Plaza on Broadway between 47th Street and Alameda Road (now Nichols Road). This vantage point faces east towards the dome at the northeast corner of Central Street and Alameda.
Date: 1932-09-20
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Cars Parked in Country Club Plaza
Description: An autochrome photograph of two automobiles parked next to a bed of flowers in the Country Club Plaza at the southeast corner of Alameda Road (now Nichols Road) and Central Street. This vantage point faces north-northwest towards the building at the northeast corner of Alameda and Central.
Date: 1935-07-05
Object Type: Photograph

Title: A Score of Slender Towers: Skyscraper Development in Kansas City, Missouri, 1929-1932
Description: Article discusses architectural, economic and cultural factors that drove a surge in skyscraper construction in the late-1920s and early-1930s. The design and building of the Telephone Building, the Professional Building, the Bryant Building, the Fidelity Building, and the Kansas City Power and Light Building are described in detail.
Date: 2017-04
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: 1726 Independence Avenue
Description: Photograph circa 1980s of an architectural embellishment on Alumni Hall on the Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences (KCUMB) campus at 1726 Independence Avenue. Construction on the building was completed in 1927; it served as a dormitory for the nurses of Children's Mercy Hospital. In 1971, KCUMB Alumni Association purchased the building and donated to the university. The building was renovated in the early 1990s. In 1999 the building was renamed after Leonard Smith, DO. Located in the Pendleton Heights neighborhood.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 1726 Independence Avenue
Description: Photograph circa 1980s of Alumni Hall on the Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences (KCUMB) campus at 1726 Independence Avenue. Construction on the building was completed in 1927; it served as a dormitory for the nurses of Children's Mercy Hospital. In 1971, KCUMB Alumni Association purchased the building and donated it to the university.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 1750 Independence Avenue
Description: Photograph circa 1980s of the front door of the Administration Hall on the Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences (KCUMB) campus at 1750 Independence Avenue. Built in 1916, the Administration Building served as the original Children's Mercy Hospital. In 1979, KCUMB Alumni Association purchased the building and donated it to the university.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

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

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

Title: Getting Taxes Equalized
Description: Story about the sweeping real estate tax reassessments across Jackson County, Missouri, in 1941 and in the wake of political reform after the ousting of the corrupt Pendergast machine. Description of the completeness of the records for every parcel of land to be taxed in the county, both of farms in rural areas and of buildings in urban areas.
Date: 1941-06
Object Type: Magazine

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