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Title: United Way Building
Description: View of the Heart of America United Way Building at 11th and Washington streets. The building was previously the Old Virginia Hotel.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: United Way Building
Description: View looking northwest of the United Way Building at 11th and Washington streets. The building was previously known as the Old Virginia Hotel. Cars parked along 11th Street can be seen.
Date: 1990~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Ambassador Hotel
Description: Postcard of The Ambassador Hotel at 36th Street and Broadway Boulevard.
Object Type: Postcard

Title: Concerning Various Citizens
Description: Photos and biographical sketches of George Muehlebach, president of the Muehlebach Brewing Company and other large interests, and born in Kansas City in 1881; Edward Winstanley, sheriff of Jackson County and born in Independence in 1882; and Barney Alisky, presumably the same man as Barney Allis, founder of Tavern Talk - the hotel paper of the Southwest - located at 910-912 Central Street.
Date: 1915-05-15
Object Type: Magazine

Title: Union Avenue Flood
Description: View looking southwest along a flooded Union Avenue near Union Depot. Horses, carts, and carriages traveling along Union Avenue can be seen. Signs for George Eyssell Drugs, Alpha Floral Company, Old Kentucky Whiskey, Dick Brothers, the Blossom House, and J. C. O'Keefe Wholesale and Retail Liquor are in view. The exterior of Union Depot can be seen on the left hand side of the image.
Date: 1900~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Aladdin Hotel
Description: Promotional postcard for the Aladdin Hotel at 1215 Wyandotte Street.
Date: 1932
Object Type: Postcard

Title: Grand Avenue
Description: View looking north along Grand Avenue from 18th Street. Buildings associated with the M. K. Goetz Brewing Company, Country Club Beer and the Kennedy Hotel can be seen.
Date: 1909
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Commonwealth Hotel
Description: View looking west of the Commonwealth Hotel that once stood at 1216 Broadway Boulevard under construction. Construction workers can be seen on the sidewalk and posed in some of the building's windows. The building was completed in 1925. Several cars parked along Broadway Boulevard can be seen. Sings for the Burnerator Brown Bed Company, Haydite Concrete, Quality Builders, the Weatherproof Products Company, the Thomas L. Dawson Company, Millwork Complete Sowers-Taylor Company, and Star Tobacco are in view. The building that once stood at 1224-1226 Broadway Boulevard can be seen on the left hand side of the image. The building that once stood at 1210-1212 Broadway Boulevard is in view on the right.
Date: 1925~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 12th Street from Main Street
Description: View looking west along 12th Street from its intersection with Main Street. A street maintenance project can be seen. Several pedestrians and cars parked along the street are in view. Signs for Lerner's Vogue, Arctic Ice Cream, the Senator Hotel, the Dixon Hotel, the State Hotel, and the Hotel Phillips can be seen.
Date: 1940~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Muehlebach Hotel, State Suite
Description: Postcard of the State Suite at the Muehlebach Hotel.
Date: 1915
Object Type: Postcard

Title: St. Regis Hotel
Description: Postcard of the St. Regis Hotel at Linwood Boulevard and The Paseo.
Object Type: Postcard

Title: Ambassador Apartments
Description: Photograph of architectural detailing on the upper levels of the Ambassador Apartments at 435 Knickerbocker Place, circa 1981. The building, called Ambassador A, and its twin neighbor to the west, Ambassador B, were designed by local architect Nelle Peters and were built by the Ambassador Hotel to serve as overflow guest rooms in 1927 and were later used as apartments. Both buildings were razed in 2012.
Date: 1981~
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: Ambassador Apartments
Description: Photograph of the Ambassador Apartments at 441 Knickerbocker Place, circa 1981. The building, called Ambassador B, and its twin neighbor to the east, Ambassador A, were designed by local architect Nelle Peters and were built by the Ambassador Hotel to serve as overflow guest rooms in 1927 and were later used as apartments. Both buildings were razed in 2012.
Date: 1981~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Alameda Plaza Hotel
Description: Photograph of the Alameda Plaza Hotel, looking southwest, at 401 Ward Parkway circa 1980.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Ambassador Apartments
Description: Photograph of the Ambassador Apartments at 435 and 441 Knickerbocker Place, circa 1981. The two buildings, called Ambassador A and B, were designed by local architect Nelle Peters and were built by the Ambassador Hotel to serve as overflow guest rooms in 1927 and were later used as apartments. Both buildings were razed in 2012.
Date: 1981~
Object Type: Photograph

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: 12th Street
Description: Photograph of 12th Street, looking west from Grand Avenue. Signs for the Regent Theater, the State Hotel, the Katz Drugstore, the Hotel Phillips, Kresge's department store, and the Jones Store can be seen. The Street is crowded with pedestrians.
Date: 1961~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: The End Justifies the Means, or Kansas City's Big Drunk
Description: Mention of the "old State Line House" as "the hotel" for the run-down West Bottoms area in 1871.
Date: 1962-05
Object Type: Magazine

Title: Athenaeum Club
Description: Photograph of the Kansas City Athenaeum building at the corner of Campbell St. and Linwood Boulevard circa 1981. The building, designed by architect Samuel Tarbet and opened in 1914, serves was the home for the Kansas City Women's Athenaeum Club, which was founded in 1894 and focused on cultural programming for local women. With club membership dwindling, the building was sold to the Kansas City alumnae chapter of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority in 2015. The LaSalle apartment building, a 14-story building which served as apartments, a hotel, and senior housing and was demolished in 2001, can be seen to the east of the Athenaeum.
Date: 1981~
Object Type: Photograph

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