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Title: Indiana Avenue Residence
Description: View of residence at 2725 Indiana Avenue. Douglas Wasama and the Historic Kansas City Foundation received awards for their work in restoring this home.
Date: 1982
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kansas City: Where the Pioneers' Hopes Were Highest
Description: History of the city and its various directions in development both geographically and culturally, with photos and illustrations of different parts of the city, including architectural landmarks.
Date: 1979-03
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Integration: Three Local Initiaties Geared to the Urban Landscape
Description: Description of three projects designed to heighten awareness of urban planning: The Urban Culture Project, the Kansas City Design Center, and the Urban Planning and Design Center at UMKC.
Date: 2002-07
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Martin Luther King Junior High School
Description: Partial view of Martin Luther King Junior High School (facilities shared by Mary Weeks Elementary School), located at 43rd Street and Indiana Avenue. Architects Kivett & Meyers received an award for their design of these facilities for the Kansas City, Missouri School District.
Date: 1970
Object Type: Photograph

Title: The Architecture of America: A Social and Cultural History
Description: Description of the innovative glass-walled Boley Building built in 1909 by Louis Curtiss, exploring the motif of a transparent glass wall, enclosing an entire structure.
Date: 1961
Object Type: Book

Title: P34-2 Kansas City Art Commission Award Photographs-Landmarks Commission Finding Aid
Description: Collection of 122 8' x 10' color photographs documenting the winners of biannual architecture and urban design awards granted by the Kansas City Art Commission from 1964 through 1988. Subjects include buildings, neighborhoods, parks, signage, streetscapes, gardens, and other features of the built environment that were considered to have enhanced the visual beauty of the city.
Date: 1964/1988
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: Boley Building Profile
Date: 1999

Title: City Hall Profile
Date: 1999

Title: Liberty Memorial Profile
Date: 1999

Title: Kansas City Power & Light Building Profile
Date: 1999

Title: Beth Shalom Synagogue Profile
Date: 2003

Title: A Pennsylvania Family Brings Its Barn to Kansas
Description: Article about the "cultural transplantation" of Pennsylvania barn styles to Kansas, through such families as the Henrys, with several photos and illustrations.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Board of Trade Building (Second) Profile
Date: 2003

Title: Hannibal Bridge Profile
Date: 2003

Title: Baltimore Hotel Profile
Date: 1999

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

Title: Architecture in the Boon's Lick Country
Description: History of architecture in Cooper County and Howard County, Missouri, in the "Boon's Lick country." Comparison of the buildings from the period of 1819-1870 to those afterward in terms of the statements made about the cultural change after the Civil War.
Date: 1950-07
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: German Influence on Hermann Houses
Description: Article about the German cultural and architectural influences on the predominantly German town of Hermann, Missouri, with photos of many houses and public buildings.
Date: 1954-04
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: SC164 KCPL Reference Hard to Find Collection Finding Aid
Description: The materials within the KCPL Reference Hard to Find (HTF) Collection were compiled by Kansas City Public Library reference librarians and staff members to provide an easy to access source of information concerning topics of local and regional interest. The collection primarily consists of newspaper and magazine clippings, pamphlets, brochures, other forms of printed material, and typed notecards.
Date: 1980/2005
Object Type: Finding Aid