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Title: United Way Building
Description: View of the Heart of America United Way Building at 11th and Washington streets. The building was previously the Old Virginia Hotel.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: United Way Building
Description: View looking northwest of the United Way Building at 11th and Washington streets. The building was previously known as the Old Virginia Hotel. Cars parked along 11th Street can be seen.
Date: 1990~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Ambassador Hotel
Description: Postcard of The Ambassador Hotel at 36th Street and Broadway Boulevard.
Object Type: Postcard

Title: Aladdin Hotel
Description: Promotional postcard for the Aladdin Hotel at 1215 Wyandotte Street.
Date: 1932
Object Type: Postcard

Title: 12th Street from Main Street
Description: View looking west along 12th Street from its intersection with Main Street. A street maintenance project can be seen. Several pedestrians and cars parked along the street are in view. Signs for Lerner's Vogue, Arctic Ice Cream, the Senator Hotel, the Dixon Hotel, the State Hotel, and the Hotel Phillips can be seen.
Date: 1940~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Muehlebach Hotel, State Suite
Description: Postcard of the State Suite at the Muehlebach Hotel.
Date: 1915
Object Type: Postcard

Title: St. Regis Hotel
Description: Postcard of the St. Regis Hotel at Linwood Boulevard and The Paseo.
Object Type: Postcard

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: Alameda Plaza Hotel
Description: Photograph of the north side of the Alameda Plaza Hotel, looking southeast from a parking lot between the Thomas Carlyle and Robert Louis Stevenson apartment buildings, circa 1988.
Date: 1988~
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: Alameda Plaza Hotel
Description: Photograph of the Alameda Plaza Hotel, looking southwest, at 401 Ward Parkway circa 1980.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Ambassador Apartments
Description: Photograph of the Ambassador Apartments at 435 and 441 Knickerbocker Place, circa 1981. The two buildings, called Ambassador A and 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: Plaza Aerial View
Description: Aerial photograph looking west through the Plaza in the 1980s, with 47th Street running along the right edge of the image and Brush Creek running through the middle. The image spans from roughly McGee Street west to State Line Road. Plaza-area commercial and residential buildings filling the bulk of the image.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph, Cityscapes

Title: 12th Street
Description: Photograph of 12th Street, looking west from Grand Avenue. Signs for the Regent Theater, the State Hotel, the Katz Drugstore, the Hotel Phillips, Kresge's department store, and the Jones Store can be seen. The Street is crowded with pedestrians.
Date: 1961~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: The End Justifies the Means, or Kansas City's Big Drunk
Description: Mention of the "old State Line House" as "the hotel" for the run-down West Bottoms area in 1871.
Date: 1962-05
Object Type: Magazine

Title: Athenaeum Club
Description: Photograph of the Kansas City Athenaeum building at the corner of Campbell St. and Linwood Boulevard circa 1981. The building, designed by architect Samuel Tarbet and opened in 1914, serves was the home for the Kansas City Women's Athenaeum Club, which was founded in 1894 and focused on cultural programming for local women. With club membership dwindling, the building was sold to the Kansas City alumnae chapter of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority in 2015. The LaSalle apartment building, a 14-story building which served as apartments, a hotel, and senior housing and was demolished in 2001, can be seen to the east of the Athenaeum.
Date: 1981~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Athenaeum Club
Description: Photograph of the Kansas City Athenaeum building at the corner of Campbell St. and Linwood Boulevard circa 1981. The building, designed by architect Samuel Tarbet and opened in 1914, serves as the home for the Kansas City Women's Athenaeum Club, which was founded in 1894 and focused on cultural programming for local women. With club membership dwindling, the building was sold to the Kansas City alumnae chapter of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority in 2015. The LaSalle apartment building, seen in the photograph with the name Defenders' Townhouse, Inc., was a senior housing facility at 922 Linwood. The 14-story building also served as apartments and a hotel and was demolished in 2001.
Date: 1981~
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: 4632 Wyandotte Street
Description: Photograph of a retail strip at the intersection of Wornall Road and Wyandotte Street circa 1980. Renner's Shoe Repair is among the businesses pictured. Other Plaza hotels and apartment buildings can be seen in the background of the image.
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

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