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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: U.S. Post Office
Description: Photograph of the United States Post Office building at 315 West Pershing Road in the early 1980s. In 2004, the building became part of a large Internal Revenue Service complex at the southeast corner of Pershing and West Pennway.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Chandler Court
Description: Photograph of the Chandler Courtyard, at the southeast corner of 47th and Wyandotte Streets, circa 1980. 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~
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: 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: Manor Bakery
Description: Photograph of the Manor Bakery complex at 4050 Pennsylvania Avenue in the early 1980s, looking southeast from Pennsylvania. The buildings served as the bakery and distribution center for Manor Bakery beginning in 1925. Multiple mergers resulted in the Manor label becoming part of Colonial Bakery, which continued to operate in the space through 1986, when the buildings were included in a major mixed-use redevelopment project that included the construction of the Manor Square building on the southwest corner of the block.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Westport Bank
Description: Photograph of the Westport Bank building at the southeast corner of Westport Road and Broadway circa 1980. The bank originally opened in this location in 1906, and in 1978, the building underwent a $300,000 renovation aimed at creating a contemporary version of the building's original facade. The building was torn down in July 2018 for a mixed-use development project.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 4400 Block of Belleview Avenue
Description: Photograph of the 4400 block of Belleview Avenue, looking north toward 44th Street, circa 1986. A house at 4418 Belleview is visible at the left edge of the image, and building housing The Point bar can be seen at right, on the southeast corner of 44th and Belleview.
Date: 1986~
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: 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 1980s. 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: Kon Tiki Room
Description: Photograph of an alley on the south side of a building at 3251-3257 Main, on the southeast corner of Main Street and Warner Plaza, circa 1981. Signs advertise the House of Chun Chinese restaurant and the adjacent Kon Tiki Room tiki bar. The area, south of Linwood Boulevard to 34th Street, between Main and Gillham, was deemed blighted and ridden with crime in drugs in the late 1980s, and these buildings, as well as other homes, apartments, and commercial buildings, were demolished in the early and mid-'90s as part of the so-called "Glover Plan" to be replaced by the Midtown Marketplace development, a large commercial development anchored by big box retailers Home Depot and Costco.
Date: 1981~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 3235-57 Main Street
Description: Photograph of a building at 3251-3257 Main, on the southeast corner of Main Street and Warner Plaza, circa 1990. Signs advertise the Cellblock bar and the adjacent Kon Tiki Room tiki bar. The area, south of Linwood Boulevard to 34th Street, between Main and Gillham, was deemed blighted and ridden with crime in drugs in the late 1980s, and these buildings, as well as other homes, apartments, and commercial buildings, were demolished in the early and mid-'90s as part of the so-called "Glover Plan" to be replaced by the Midtown Marketplace development, a large commercial development anchored by big box retailers Home Depot and Costco. The adjacent apartments appear to have been demolished in this image.
Date: 1990~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Manor Bakery
Description: Photograph of the rear of the Manor Bakery complex at 4020-50 Pennsylvania Avenue in the early 1980s, from Mill Street looking southeast. The buildings served as the bakery and distribution center for Manor Bakery beginning in 1925. Multiple mergers resulted in the Manor label becoming part of Colonial Bakery, which continued to operate in the space through 1986, when the buildings were included in a major mixed-use redevelopment project that included the construction of the Manor Square building on the southwest corner of the block.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

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