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Title: South Plaza Buildings
Description: Photograph of buildings in the South Plaza neighborhood, looking southwest from a parking lot in the 4900 block of Main Street circa 1987. The 4900 Main Building, which includes United Missouri Bank as a tenant, is pictured at the right edge of the image. A parking garage stands to the west, and the Sulgrave Apartments building is pictured to the north.
Date: 1987~
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: 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: Mabry Hall
Description: Photograph of the Mabry Hall building at 4112-14 Pennsylvania Avenue, circa 1980. At the time of the photo, the building was owned by Ace Dickinson, who operated Ace's Rock Shop and Museum on the ground floor. The building is arguably the oldest extant commercial building in Kansas City, with some claiming it was constructed in 1843. Other sources suggest a date closer to 1850.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Admiral Arms Apartments
Description: Photograph of the Admiral Arms Apartments at the northeast corner of Admiral Boulevard and Tracy Avenue, in the 1980s. Built circa 1910, the building originally opened as the Admiral Arms Apartments, and was redubbed the Park Plaza Apartments in 1940. The building is pictured with lower level windows are boarded up. Beginning in 1988, a major renovation returned it to use as 70+ unit apartment complex called Admiral Apartments.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Oak Hall
Description: Photograph of the Oak Hall apartment building at 4550 Warwick in the early 1980s, with its parking structure along Warwick in the foreground of the image. The apartment complex was built as a luxury 165-unit development in the early 1960s and opened to tenants in 1962.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 411-413 Olive Street
Description: Photograph circa 1980s of 411-413 Olive Street, a four-unit apartment building, built in 1890. Located in the Pendleton Heights neighborhood.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 403-413 Olive Street
Description: Photograph circa 1980s of a single family home at 405 Olive Street, built in 1917. On its left, to the north, is 403 Olive Street, which was demolished in 2002. To the south, on the other side, is 411 - 413 Olive Street, a four-unit apartment building, built in 1890. Located in the Pendleton Heights neighborhood.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Pennbrook Apartments
Description: Photograph of the Pennbrook apartment building at the northwest corner of 10th and Pennsylvania Streets in the early 1980s. The Pennbrook, at 604 West 10th Street, was designed by local architect Nelle E. Peters, and opened with 140 units in 1926. A Quality Hill Towers building, at 929 Jefferson, stands in the background.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 403 Olive Street
Description: Photograph circa 1980s of a single family home (green building) at 403 Olive Street, which was demolished in 2002. To the north is 405 Olive Street, a single family home built in 1917. Next to it is 411 - 413 Olive Street, a four-unit apartment building, built in 1890. Located in the Pendleton Heights neighborhood.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 2821-23 Charlotte Street
Description: Photograph of a four-unit apartment building at 2821-23 Charlotte Street in the early 1980s.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Sophian Plaza
Description: Photograph of the Sophian Plaza apartment building at 4618 Warwick Boulevard in the early 1980s. The 47-unit building, designed by Shepard & Wiser and developed by Henry J. Sophian, was built in 1922, and converted to a condominium in 1978.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Sheridan Apartments
Description: Photograph of the Sheridan Apartments building at 1305-07 East Armour Boulevard in the early 1980s. Designed by local architect Nelle E. Peters, the building opened in 1921, and was named the Yaletown Apartments after a 2010s renovation. A neighboring apartment building and replaced with a parking lot. The neighboring building at the right of the image, the Linda Vista Apartment building, was also designed by Nelle E. Peters, and opened in 1925. At the time of the photograph, units in the building were recently renovated and available as federally subsidized housing.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 300 Block of Olive Street
Description: Photograph circa 1980s looking south, capturing the east side of the 300 block of Olive Street. On the left is a multi-family home at 331-333 Olive Street, built in 1900. Visible to the south, across the intersection at Elma Street is 403 Olive Street, which was demolished in 2001. Next to it is 405 Olive Street, a single family home built in 1917. And to the south is 411 Olive Street, a four-unit apartment building, built in 1890. Located in the Pendleton Heights neighborhood.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 3919-21 Norledge Avenue
Description: Photograph of a four unit residential building at 3919-21 Norledge Avenue in the 1980s.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Unidentified West Plaza Apartment Building
Description: Photograph of an unidentified apartment building circa 1986. The Plaza West office building, at 4600 Madison Avenue, can be seen in in the upper left edge of the image.
Date: 1986~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 9-23 East 34th Street
Description: Photograph of a section of the ground floor level of the 9-23 East 34th Street rowhouse building circa 1984, during a major 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, including the neighboring white building at the right edge of this image.
Date: 1984~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Thomas Carlyle Apartments
Description: Photograph of the Thomas Carlyle Apartments building at 700 Ward Parkway circa 1990. Construction began on the building, designed by local architect Nelle E. Peters, in 1928. It belonged to a complex of buildings called the Poet Apartment Buildings, consisting of seven residential buildings named after literary figures including Carlyle, Mark Twain and Robert Louis Stevenson.
Date: 1990~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 9-23 East 34th Street
Description: Photograph of a section of the 9-23 East 34th Street rowhouse building circa 1984, during a major 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: 1984~
Object Type: Photograph

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

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