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Title: Swope Park Shelter House #1
Description: Photograph of Swope Park Shelter House Number 1, located to the southeast of the main entrance to Swope Park in Kansas City, Missouri. This vantage point faces west from the footpaths on the west side of the building.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 2535 Guinotte Avenue
Description: Photograph, looking southeast, circa 1980s of a Firestone gas station at 2535 Guinotte Avenue, owned by Maher Oil Company. The building sits at the intersection of the Guinotte Viaduct and N Prospect Avenue, facing north.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 3201-3207 East 12th Street
Description: Photograph circa 1980s of a building at 3201 E. 12th Street, the southeast corner of 12th and Benton Boulevard, built in 1910.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 3200 Independence Avenue
Description: Photograph circa 1980s looking southeast, of the Benton Theater building that was at 3200 Independence Avenue, on the northeast corner of Independence Avenue and Benton Boulevard. It was built ca. 1911 and served as a church after the theater closed in 1952. It was demolished in 2015, after the roof collapsed in 2014. In the Scarritt Point neighborhood.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 2100 Harrison Street
Description: Photograph of a commercial building at the southeast corner of 21st and Harrison. The building was later demolished to make way for the construction of 71 Highway/Bruce R. Watkins Drive in the 1990s.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Brownhardt Apartments
Description: Photograph of the Brownhardt Apartments at the southeast corner of Armour and Campbell in the early 1980s. The building, designed by architect Alonzo Gentry, opened in 1929.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Nathan Scarritt Residence
Description: Photograph (looking southeast) circa 1980s of the Nathan Scarritt Residence at 4038 Central Street. Rev. Nathan Scarritt and his family were the original owners of the home, built ca 1847-1853. The home was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 44th and Belleview Intersection
Description: Photograph at the intersection of 44th Street and Belleview Avenue, looking south on Belleview, circa 1986. A sign for Country Club Bank stands on the northeast corner of the intersection, and The Point bar on the southeast corner. Houses line the west side of the street.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Mark Twain Bank
Description: Photograph of the Mark Twain Bank building on the southeast corner of 49th and Main Streets circa 1987.
Date: 1987~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Revco Drugstore
Description: Photograph circa late 1970s of the southeast corner of 63rd Street and Brookside Plaza, capturing several businesses on the east side of Brookside Plaza Street in the Brookside shopping area. The strip of shops included the Revco Drugstore at 6301 Brookside Plaza. The sign for Milgram's Food Store at 6327 Brookside Plaza can be seen in the distance.
Date: 1970~/1979~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 401 East Armour Boulevard
Description: Photograph looking southeast circa late 1970s of the Belleclaire Apartment Hotel at 401 East Armour Boulevard. It was designed by architect Nelle Peters, built in 1927 and demolished in 1979. The lot was acquired by the city in 1988 and a small park called Commonwealth Green occupies the space.
Date: 1970~/1979~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Chandler Court
Description: Photograph of the Chandler Courtyard, at the southeast corner of 47th and Wyandotte Streets, in the late 1970s. The courtyard features a large fountain, alternately known as the Pan or Bacchus Fountain. The building adjacent to the courtyard was home to clothing store Swanson's.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Bencourt Apartments
Description: Photograph of the Bencourt Apartments on the southeast corner of 39th and Main Streets in the early 1980s. The building was demolished in 1995 and the site is now used as a parking lot for surrounding businesses.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: William Francis Shelley House
Description: Photograph - looking southeast - circa 1980s of the William Francis Shelley Residence, under renovation, a single family home at 3601 Baltimore Avenue, on the southeast corner of West 36th Street and Baltimore Avenue. Built in 1887-1889, the home was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978 and to the Kansas City Register of Historic Places on an individual basis in 1979 and in 1994 as part of the Old Hyde Park Historic District (with the address 31 West 36th Street). Located in the Hanover Place neighborhood.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: William Francis Shelley House
Description: Photograph - looking southeast - circa 1980s of the William Francis Shelley Residence, a single family home at 3601 Baltimore Avenue, on the southeast corner of West 36th Street and Baltimore Avenue. Built in 1887-1889, the home was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978 and to the Kansas City Register of Historic Places on an individual basis in 1979 and in 1994 as part of the Old Hyde Park Historic District (with the address 31 West 36th Street). Located in the Hanover Place neighborhood.
Date: 1980~/1989~
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: Kansas City Public Library Plaza Branch
Description: Photograph of the Plaza Branch of the Kansas City Public Library, southeast of the intersection of Ward Parkway and Main Street, circa 1980.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 501 Garfield Avenue
Description: Photograph, looking southeast, circa 1980s of a single family home at 501 Garfield Avenue. It was built in 1885 and with an apartment on the second floor, can also be a multi-family home. Placed on the Kansas City Register of Historic Places as part of the Pendleton Heights Historic District in 1992. Located in the Pendleton Heights 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: 600 East 45th Street
Description: Photograph looking southeast of the rear a house surrounded by a low stone wall at 600 East 45th Street in the 1980s. The house, known as the A. F. Seested Residence after original resident and Kansas City Star employee August F. Seestad, was designed by architect Clarence Shepard and built in 1925.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

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