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Title: Plaza Aerial View
Description: Aerial photograph looking west through the Plaza in the 1980s, with 47th Street running along the right edge of the image and Brush Creek running through the middle. The image spans from roughly McGee Street west to State Line Road. Plaza-area commercial and residential buildings filling the bulk of the image.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph, Cityscapes

Title: Plaza Area Plan Area with Specific Guidelines
Description: Map created by the Kansas City Landmarks Commission as part of a 1980s Plaza Plan presentation, encompassing an area from State Line Road east to The Paseo, and from Westport Road and 39th Street south to 55th Street. The map illustrates an area with specific planning guidelines surrounding the Alameda Plaza Hotel near the intersection of Ward Parkway and Sunset Drive, and is a detail view of the larger Planning Recommendations map. Area plans, dealing with transportation, development, and zoning, among other factors, were developed over time for a number of Kansas City areas and are intended to provide guidance for their growth and design.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Map

Title: Plaza Lights
Description: Photograph of the Plaza Christmas lights, looking northeast across Ward Parkway and Brush Creek from the grounds of the Alameda Plaza Hotel in the 1980s. The hotel, later the Intercontinental, stands on the southwest corner of Ward Parkway and Wornall Road.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph, Cityscapes

Title: Plaza Tennis Courts & Residential Buildings
Description: Photograph of the east side of the Plaza in the 1980s. Brookside Boulevard, and just beyond it, the Plaza Tennis Center courts occupy the foreground at the bottom of the image. Residential buildings, including the Casa Loma, Hemingway, and Locarno apartment buildings, and the Alameda Plaza Hotel line Ward Parkway.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph, Cityscapes

Title: Plaza Aerial View
Description: Aerial photograph looking west along 47th Street in the 1980s, with the intersection of 47th and Main Streets near the center of the image. The Nelson-Atkins Museum's grounds can be seen in the lower right, with Westwood, Kansas, at the top edge. Brush Creek is visible at the left of the image, with Plaza-area commercial and residential buildings filling the bulk of the image.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph, Cityscapes

Title: Plaza Aerial View
Description: Aerial photograph looking east through the Plaza along Brush Creek and Ward Parkway in the 1980s. Plaza-area commercial and residential buildings filling the bulk of the image, from roughly Roanoke Parkway on the west to McGee at the east.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph, Cityscapes

Title: Alameda Plaza Hotel
Description: Photograph of the Alameda Plaza Hotel, looking southwest across the intersection of Wornall Road and Ward Parkway, in the early 1980s.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

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