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Title: Salvation Army
Description: Photograph of a Salvation Army facility at 917 Tracy, looking northeast from the intersection of 10th and Tracy, in the 1980s. A neon sign hangs on the corner of the building.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Trinity United Methodist Church
Description: Photograph of the Trinity United Methodist Church at 620 East Armour Boulevard in the early 1980s. Designed by George Fuller Green, the church was built in 1918. Armour Park Apartments, to its west, can be seen at the left of the image.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: United Missouri Bank Construction Site
Description: Photograph circa early 1980s of the construction site of the United Missouri Bank building at the northwest corner of 10th Street and Grand Boulevard, looking northeast from 11th ;amp; Walnut Streets. The Lathrop Building, at 1005 Grand, can be seen at the center of the image.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: U.S. Post Office
Description: Photograph of the United States Post Office building at 315 West Pershing Road in the early 1980s. In 2004, the building became part of a large Internal Revenue Service complex at the southeast corner of Pershing and West Pennway.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 9th Street West Between Forest Street and Lydia Street
Description: Photograph looking west toward Forest Street, circa 1980s. On the left is the building at 901 Tracy Ave. Built in 1900, the building was Unity Inn's vegetarian restaurant and theater playhouse in 1925. At the time of the photograph, it housed a Salvation Army Thrift Store. Looking west, the First Church of Christ, Scientist tower, at 1117 East 9th, is visible. The Fidelity National Bank building, at 909 Walnut, can be seen in the background of the image.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church
Description: Photograph of the Trinity United Methodist Church at 620 East Armour Boulevard, and Armour Park Apartments, at 608 East Armour, in the early 1980s. The church, designed by George Fuller Green, was built in 1918. The Armour Park Apartments building, originally known as the Geha Apartments, was built in 1917.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 10 Northwest Richards Road
Description: Photograph circa 1980s of the building at 10 Northwest Richards Road, on the east side of the Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport, built in 1931 as the TWA corporate headquarters. At the time of the photo, Executive Beechcraft had offices in this building; Executive Beechcraft was sold to BBA Aviation in 2007. The TWA Museum opened in this building in 2013. As of 2018, it also houses an airplane equipment maintenance and repair company and a chauffeur company.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 901 Tracy Avenue
Description: Photograph circa 1980s of a building at 901 Tracy Ave, from the perspective of 9th Street. The building was Unity Inn's vegetarian restaurant and theater playhouse in 1925. At the time of the photograph, it housed a Salvation Army Thrift Store. Built in 1900, it is in the Paseo West neighborhood.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 4600 Independence Avenue
Description: Photograph circa 1980s of Camino Verdad Y Vida United Methodist Church at 4600 Independence Avenue. It was built around 1902 and housed Oakley Methodist Church until sometime in the 2000s. Located in the Indian Mound neighborhood.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 4600 Independence Avenue
Description: Photograph circa 1980s of Camino Verdad Y Vida United Methodist Church at 4600 Independence Avenue. It was built around 1902 and housed Oakley Methodist Church until sometime in the 2000s. Located in the Indian Mound neighborhood.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 1080 Washington Street
Description: Photograph circa 1980s of the side of the building at 1080 Washington that faces 11th Street. Several organizations have had offices in that building, including United Way and Crossroads Academy - Quality Hill, a charter school.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 10 Northwest Richards Road
Description: Photograph circa 1980s of the building at 10 Northwest Richards Road, on the east side of the Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport, built in 1931 as the TWA corporate headquarters. At the time of the photo, Executive Beechcraft had offices in this building; Executive Beechcraft was sold to BBA Aviation in 2007. The TWA Museum opened in this building in 2013. As of 2018, it also houses an airplane equipment maintenance and repair company and a chauffeur company.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Boulevard Manor & Cavalier Apartments
Description: Photograph of the Boulevard Manor Hotel and Cavalier Apartment buildings on Armour between Troost and Forest in the early 1980s. The Cavalier building, at 1109 East Armour, was built in 1929, was known as the Ritz at the time of the photograph and was placed on the city's dangerous buildings list after a series of fires in the 1980s. It was demolished in 1996. Boulevard Manor, at 1115 East Armour, was built in 1923 as the Marquette Club, a Catholic men's community center and apartment complex. The building was taken over for use as a barracks by the Army during World War II, after which it returned to civilian residential use. The building was donated to the Urban League of Kansas City in 1970, and appears vacant with boarded-up lower level windows at the time of the photograph. Universal Lounge, a bar, appears in the background of the image at the southwest corner of Troost and Armour.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 9th Street East Between Forest Street and Lydia Street
Description: Photograph looking east toward Lydia Street, circa 1980s. On the right is the building at 901 Tracy Ave. At the time of the photograph, it housed a Salvation Army Thrift Store. To its east is an office building at 1327 E 9th St. And next to that is 906 Lydia Avenue. The two-story, red brick building visible in the distance is 1401 E 9th St. Located in the Paseo West neighborhood.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 1601 Admiral Boulevard
Description: Photograph of the Boys Hotel building at 1601 Admiral Boulevard in the 1980s. The Boys Hotel served as a group residence for homeless, orphaned, and troubled young men in this facility built in 1911 (with a 1922 addition), until it was closed during the Depression. It reopened as Boys Club, a youth recreation center operated by the Community Chest, which operated from 1935 to 1960, when the facility became the headquarters of City Union Mission. City Union missing relocated in 1977, and the building was demolished in 1989.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 101 East Armour Boulevard
Description: Photograph of a house at 101 East Armour Boulevard in the early 1980s. The house, built for Sunshine Biscuits founder Jacob Loose in 1910, was designed by architect George Oakley Totten, but was converted to office use after the Loose family vacated the mansion in 1928. At the time of the photograph, the building the headquarters of the Operating Engineers Local 101 union. The building was sold to a new owner at auction in 1983.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Horace Mann School
Description: Photograph of the Horace Mann School at 39th and Euclid Streets circa 1980. The building was designed by architect Charles A. Smith and completed in 1904. In a state of disrepair, it was closed by the school district in 1979 and placed for sale the following year. It operated as Brown-Caldwell Christian School from the early 1980s until circa 2007, when it was purchased, with the intention of residential redevelopment, by the Ivanhoe Neighborhood Association. It was damaged in an arson fire in December 2011, leading to its demolition.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Switzer School Primary Unit
Description: Photograph of the west side of the Switzer School Annex building at 1810 Madison Avenue in the 1980s. The annex was built in 1958 to accommodate elementary students, and is linked to buildings east of Madison by a tunnel under the street. The Switzer/West campus closed permanently in 2006 and was sold for redevelopment as a residential property in 2015.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Church's Fried Chicken
Description: Photograph of a Church's Fried Chicken restaurant at 1301 West 39th Street in the late 1980s. The restaurant operated at the site from the early 1970s until December 1988.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Benjamin Harrison School
Description: Photograph of the Benjamin Harrison School at 414 Wallace Avenue in the 1980s. The building was closed at the end of the 1981-1982 school year due to declining enrollment, and was placed for sale by the school district in 1983. A developer proposed turning into an indoor water park before it was purchased by Lutheran High School, which operated at the site from 1985-2005.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

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