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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: 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: 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: Northeast Corner of 47th and Main
Description: Photograph of the northeast corner of 47th and Main Streets circa 1980. Seen from near the southeast corner of the intersection, the rear of the Community Christian Church can be seen across 47th Street and a Country Club Plaza employee parking lot. The Parkway Towers apartment building can be seen in the background at left, and the Ponce de Leon Apartments in the background at right.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Intersection of Ward Parkway and 48th Street
Description: Photograph of the intersection of 48th Street and Ward Parkway, looking southeast along 48th Street, in the early 1980s. The Raphael Hotel, formerly the Villa Serena Apartments, at 321 Ward Parkway, is pictured at right. The Regency House Apartments occupy the center of the image, and the Locaro Apartments building, at 235 Ward Parkway, is pictured at left.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Central Presbyterian Church
Description: Photograph of the Central Presbyterian Church at the southeast corner of Armour and Campbell in the early 1980s. The congregation, founded in 1866, has resided at this location since 1921. The Wrennmoor apartment building, at 915 East Armour, can be seen standing to the east of the church. The building opened in 1927, but was condemned after multiple arson fires in 1988. It was demolished in 1995.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Southmoreland and Plaza Buildings
Description: Photograph, looking southeast from the top of the Fountain View (later American Century Investments north tower), across 47th Street toward the UMKC campus circa 1987. The Hilton Plaza Inn, at 1 West 45th, occupies the bottom left corner of the image, and numerous residential buildings are pictured lining 47th Street. Streetcar tracks can be seen running behind commercial buildings in the foreground, south diagonally across Main Street, before running alongside Brookside Boulevard south of Brush Creek. Main Street and Brookside Boulevard were later realigned as part of a Brush Creek beautification and flood control project in the 1990s.
Date: 1987~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 46th and 47th Street Apartment Buildings
Description: Photograph, looking southeast from the top of the Fountain View building (later American Century north tower) of apartment buildings on the north and south sides of 47th Street circa 1987. The Sophian Plaza building, at 4618 Warwick, is seen at the left side of the image, with apartment buildings lining 46th Street, and behind them 47th Street, in the center of the image. Behind them, office buildings on Volker Boulevard, and further south, buildings on the UMKC campus, are pictured.
Date: 1987~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 101-03 East 40th Street
Description: Photograph of apartment buildings at the southeast corner of 40th and Walnut Streets, including Merton Hall at 101 East 40th Street, circa 1980. Merton Hall, and the Elmore Apartments building to the east, are eight-plex Kansas City Colonnade buildings, with columned porches at their fronts, built in the early 1920s. Merton Hall suffered a major fire in April 1983, and was torn down a week later. The others buildings in view in the image were later also demolished and the property used by the neighboring St. Paul's Episcopal Church as sports fields and gardens.
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: 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

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