Search results

Title: Buildings on Pennsylvania
Description: View looking southeast along Pennsylvania Avenue from its intersection with 11th Street. Cars parked along Pennsylvania Avenue can be seen. The Wellington Apartments, the Surrey Courts Apartments, and Hotel Cordova buildings are in view.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Apartment Building on 10th
Description: View looking southeast of an apartment building that once stood at the intersection of 10th and Jefferson streets. A car parked on 10th Street and a pedestrian can be seen.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 9-23 East 34th Street
Description: Photograph of the 9-23 East 34th Street rowhouse building in the early 1980s, prior to a major 1984 renovation and rehabilitation project. This block of rowhouse apartments was constructed in 1888, prior to the area's annexation by Kansas City, and were once known as the Hyde Park Apartments. The majority of buildings on the block were razed in the 1980s and 1990s for additional parking lots and to expand the Foreign Language Academy's campus.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Grace and Holy Trinity Cathedral
Description: View looking southeast of the Grace and Holy Trinity Cathedral at 415 W. 13th Street. The view was captured from Washington Street near its intersection with 13th Street. Cars traveling along Washington Street and parked in the cathedral's lot can be seen.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Normandy Apartments and Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception
Description: View looking southeast along 11th Street from just west of its intersection with Washington Street. The Normandy Apartments Building is in view on the right hand side of the image. The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception can be seen on the left. A sign for the La Homa Hotel can be seen. City Center Square can be seen in the background.
Date: 1980~
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: 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: 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: The New Stanley
Description: Photograph of The New Stanley bar and restaurant at 501 Westport Road circa 1980, as well as a view of Pennsylvania Avenue looking southeast from Westport Road. The restaurant and bar opened in 1975 in the building that was the former Doerschuk pharmacy. An establishment called the Old Stanley opened in 1987 under new ownership in the space after the New Stanley closed in 1985.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 3611 Broadway Boulevard
Description: Photograph circa 1980, looking southeast, of 3609-3615 Broadway Boulevard. Peking Chinese Restaurant appears in the left side of the photo, located at 3609 Broadway Boulevard. Also shown in the photo, in the center, is Crazy's at 3611 Broadway Boulevard. And further south, in the right side of the photo, is Shoequet Shoes store at 3915 Broadway Boulevard. This block of buildings was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983 as part of the Ambassador Hotel Historic District and added to the Kansas City Register of Historic Places in 1984.
Date: 1980~
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: Standard Oil Company Regional Headquarters Building
Description: View facing northeast of the Standard Oil Company Regional Headquarters Building located on the northwest corner of Armour and Warwick boulevards. The building would later become the home of the Foreign Language Academy school. A portion of another office building immediately to the west can be seen. The Bellerive Apartment Hotel can be seen on the right hand side of the image. Cars, work trucks and a worker on Armour Boulevard are in view.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: The Wagon Master
Description: View looking southeast of the Wagon Master statue in front of the Alameda Plaza Hotel at 401 Ward Parkway in the Country Club Plaza.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Massasoit
Description: View of the Massasoit statue on the southeast corner of Main Street, Brookside Boulevard, and 47th Street.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Massasoit
Description: View of the Massasoit statue on the southeast corner of Main Street, Brookside Boulevard, and 47th Street.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: St. Mary's Episcopal Church
Description: View looking southeast of St. Mary's Episcopal Church with snow on the ground.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: The Wagon Master
Description: View looking southeast of the Wagon Master statue in front of the Alameda Plaza Hotel at 401 Ward Parkway in the Country Club Plaza.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Sister Cities Sign
Description: View looking southeast of a sister cities sign that once stood along Brush Creek's northern bank in the Country Club Plaza. The following cities are listed on the sign: Seville, Spain - 4700 miles; Freetown, Sierra Leone, Africa - 5000 miles; Kurashiki, Japan - 7000 miles; Tainan, Taiwan - 7500 miles; Morelia, Mexico - 1200 miles.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Massasoit
Description: View looking east of the Massasoit statue on the southeast corner of Main Street, Brookside Boulevard, and 47th Street.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Raphael Hotel
Description: View looking southeast of the entrance to the Raphael Hotel on Ward Parkway in the Country Club Plaza. Cars parked outside of the building can be seen.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Pages