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Title: Searcy Creek Parkway
Description: View of Searcy Creek Parkway, located between Missouri Highway 210 and Parvin Road. The road, designed by the Kansas City Public Works Department, was awarded for being the first parkway installed in Kansas City north of the Missouri River.
Date: 1976
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kudos for Architects and Engineers: Kansas City Looks over the Record
Description: Article about a luncheon celebrating the works of Kansas City architects and engineers from last several years.
Date: 1950-04
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Architecture in Kansas City: 1885-1913
Description: Discussion of architects in Kansas City and their origins with photos of a few of their works, including the Scarritt Building.
Date: 1971
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: American Institute of Architects Guide to Kansas City Architecture & Public Art
Description: Book filled with photos, maps, and descriptions of numerous structures of architectural significance in Kansas City including buildings, residences, and public art works and including newer buildings up to 2000 with sections of the book for Downtown, Westside, Old Northeast, East Side, Midtown, Brush Creek and Country Club, Northwest, Northeast, Southeast, Southwest, Independence, Missouri, and Kansas City, Kansas.
Date: 2000
Object Type: Book

Title: Two Kansas Citys
Description: Article about Van Brunt & Howe, by far the largest architectural office in Kansas City at the time. Discussion of their contributions to the "two Kansas Citys"--Kansas City, Missouri, and Kansas City, Kansas, with a list of their most important works.
Date: 1891~
Object Type: Book

Title: City Hall Profile
Date: 1999

Title: Baltimore Hotel Profile
Date: 1999

Title: Vaughan's Diamond Building, The Junction, Profile
Date: 1999

Title: SC223 Folly Theater Collection Finding Aid
Description: Open since 1900, the Folly Theater has assumed several names and identities over the decades, from a vaudeville, burlesque, and Shakespearean playhouse to an X-rated movie theater. Today, it serves as Kansas City’s oldest performing arts venue. The Folly Theater Collection contains photographs, scrapbooks, posters, administrative and financial records, building blueprints, and various artifacts that document the theater’s diverse history.
Date: 1877/2014
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: General Hospital Profile
Date: 1999

Title: Boley Building Profile
Date: 1999

Title: Jackson County Courthouse Profile
Date: 1999

Title: Apartments' Past Could Stop Wrecking Ball
Description: Article focuses upon an effort to prevent the demolition of three adjacent two-story apartment buildings located in the Country Club Plaza that were designed by Kansas City architect Nelle Peters. Greg Allen, president of the Historic Kansas City Foundation, is interviewed and describes his organization's efforts. The author states that the potential demolition is being handled by 47 Summit LLC, an organization managed by the Overland Park-based Price Brothers.
Date: 2015-06-19
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Hannibal Bridge Profile
Date: 2003

Title: Stine and McClure Undertaking Company Building Profile
Date: 2003

Title: Scarritt Building Profile
Date: 1999

Title: The Influence of the Chicago School on the Work of Ernest Olaf Brostrom
Description: Thesis toward a master's for the University of Kansas with photos and description of Ernest Olaf Brostrom, or Ernest Brostrom (1888-1969), a Kansas City architect and follower of the "Chicago School" of design. Native of Sweden emigrating to Kansas City in 1907 and designer of various types of buildings, most notably here "the Jensen-Salsbery Laboratories, the George Rushton Baking Company and the Newbern Apartments."
Date: 1997
Object Type: Thesis/Dissertation

Title: Life at the Top
Description: Analysis by architectural firm HNTB of effects of building design on working environment, including the example of their work in the AT&T Building.
Date: 1988-05
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Architecture
Description: Pamphlets, brochures, articles, illustrations, and information about Kansas City architecture. Includes material on gargoyle sculpture work found on the tops and sides of old Kansas City buildings.
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Manufactured Reality
Description: Article describes the work of Dimensional Innovations, an Overland Park architectural fabrication company. The company began work in 1995 designing interior signage for AMC Entertainment Inc., and has gone on to work on such projects as educational exhibits for Science City and decorative canopies for Chicago's Wrigley Field.
Date: 2005-03-25
Object Type: Newspaper Article

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