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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: Skelly Building
Description: Photograph circa 1980s of a building at 605 West 47th Street, called the Skelly Building, which housed offices for the Skelly Oil Company until the company merged with Getty Oil in 1977. The original part of the building was built in 1938; later additions were completed in 1954. Located in the Plaza neighborhood.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Skelly Building
Description: Photograph circa 1980s of a building at 605 West 47th Street, called the Skelly Building, which housed offices for the Skelly Oil Company until the company merged with Getty Oil in 1977. The original part of the building was built in 1938; later additions were completed in 1954. Located in the Plaza neighborhood.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Lincoln Building
Description: Photograph of the Lincoln Building on the southeast corner of 18th and Vine in the late 1980s. The commercial and professional social building, with a third floor dance hall, opened in 1921 and served as a hub of Kansas City's black community. After several decades of decline, a renovation project, converting the building into office space, began in 1979 and completed in 1981.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Luzier Cosmetics Building
Description: Photograph of the Luzier Cosmetics Building at 3216 Gillham Plaza in the 1980s. The building was developed in two phases - the larger north wing was designed by local architecture firm Hoit, Price, ; Barnes in 1927 for Martha Washington Candy Company, and the smaller south wing designed by local architect Nelle E. Peters and added in 1928. Luzier purchased the north building and linked the two in 1933, at which time Peters' exterior ornamentation was extended to unify the structures. The building served as the headquarters for the Luzier Cosmetics company from 1928 to 2000.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: West Side of the Country Club Plaza
Description: Photograph of the west side of Country Club Plaza area, looking southwest, in 1987. The Neptune Apartments building can be seen under construction in the foreground left, and the Saks department store and Seville Square shopping center, on Nichols Road, and Skelly building, on 49th Street, occupy the center of the photograph. The Winston Churchill Apartments and Poet Apartments are pictured in the background, west of Jefferson Street.
Date: 1987
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Unidentified West Plaza House
Description: Photograph of a house and other buildings in the West Plaza area circa 1986. A portion of the Plaza West office building, at 4600 Madison Avenue, can be seen in the upper right corner of the image.
Date: 1986~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Luzier Cosmetics Building
Description: Photograph of the southern wing of the Luzier Cosmetics Building at 3216 Gillham Plaza in the 1980s. The building was developed in two phases - the larger north wing was designed by local architecture firm Hoit, Price, ; Barnes in 1927 for Martha Washington Candy Company, and the smaller south wing designed by local architect Nelle E. Peters and added in 1928. Luzier purchased the north building and linked the two in 1933, at which time Peters' exterior ornamentation was extended to unify the structures. The building served as the headquarters for the Luzier Cosmetics company from 1928 to 2000.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Main Street and J. C. Nichols Parkway at 47th Street
Description: Photograph, looking south from the top of the Fountain View (later American Century Investments north tower), toward the intersection of 47th Street with J. C. Nichols Parkway (at right) and Main Street (at left). Streetcar tracks can be seen running behind commercial buildings in the foreground, southeast diagonally across Main Street. Nichols Fountain, in Mill Creek Park, is visible at the center of the image. Main Street and Brookside Boulevard were later realigned as part of a Brush Creek beautification and flood control project in the 1990s. South Plaza apartment and office buildings are visible in the background of the image, with Country Club Plaza commercial and residential buildings in the foreground right.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: National Catholic Reporter
Description: Photograph of the National Catholic Reporter headquarters at the southwest corner of Armour and Warwick in the early 1980s. The building, originally built and used as a residence, was converted to use as offices in the 1950s. It has served as offices for the local AFL-CIO, the Visiting Nurse Association of Greater Kansas City, and became the headquarters of the National Catholic Reporter in the late 1970s.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Scarritt Arcade Building
Description: Photograph circa 1980s of the Scarritt Arcade Building which is ajoined to the Scarritt Building. The Scarritt Building, 818 Grand Blvd, sits at the corner of 9th and Grand Streets and the Scarritt Arcade Building is at 819 Walnut Street. Built in 1907 by Root ;amp; Siemens architectural firm, the buildings were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971 and the Kansas City Register of Historic Places in 1987.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: National Catholic Reporter
Description: Photograph of the National Catholic Reporter headquarters at the southwest corner of Armour and Warwick in the early 1980s. The building, originally built and used as a residence, was converted to use as offices in the 1950s. It has served as offices for the local AFL-CIO, the Visiting Nurse Association of Greater Kansas City, and became the headquarters of the National Catholic Reporter in the late 1970s.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Skelly Building
Description: Photograph circa 1980s of a building at 605 West 47th Street, called the Skelly Building, which housed offices for the Skelly Oil Company until the company merged with Getty Oil in 1977. The original part of the building was built in 1938; later additions were completed in 1954.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Unidentified West Plaza Apartment Building
Description: Photograph of an unidentified apartment building circa 1986. The Plaza West office building, at 4600 Madison Avenue, can be seen in in the upper left edge of the image.
Date: 1986~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 4517 Jarboe Street
Description: Photograph of a house, at 4517 Jarboe, and other buildings in the West Plaza area circa 1986. The Plaza West office building, at 4600 Madison Avenue, can be seen in the background.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Unidentified West Plaza House
Description: Photograph of a house and other buildings in the West Plaza area circa 1986. The Plaza West office building, at 4600 Madison Avenue, can be seen in the background.
Date: 1986~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Boley Building
Description: Photograph, circa 1980s, of the Boley Building at 1130 Walnut St. It is named the Boley Building for the Boley Clothing Company that was its first occupant. Later, a Katz Drug Store and Three Sisters Clothing Store were housed there. The six-story building was designed by Kansas City architect Louis Curtiss in 1909 and is one of the first buildings in the world to utilize a glass curtain wall system. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: McConahay Building
Description: Photograph of the McConahay (later Carroll) Building at 1127 East 31st Street. The building was designed by local architect Nelle E. Peters and built in 1922. The second floor of the building served as the first location of Walt Disney's Laugh-O-Gram Films studio from the building's completion in early 1922 until Disney relocated ot California in June 1923.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Vitagraph Film Exchange Building
Description: Photograph of the Vitagraph Film Exchange building at the southeast corner of 17th and Wyandotte in the early 1980s. Built in 1930 by Warner Brothers, the building was part of Kansas City's Film Row, an area focused on the film distribution industry. Warner Brothers continued to occupy the building into the 1970s, but an "Office Space for Lease" sign is posted at the time of the photograph.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: BMA Building
Description: Photograph of the BMA Tower at 700 West 31st Street circa 1980. The tower was built in 1963 to replace the former headquarters of Business Men's Assurance Company on Pershing Road, and was designed by architecture firm Skidmore Owings and Merrill. The WDAF radio tower can be seen in the background of the image.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

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