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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: 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: Theis Park
Description: Photograph of the lawn at Theis Park, looking west toward the Plaza, circa 1987. The Sulgrave Apartments building is visible in the background.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Board of Trade Building
Description: Photograph of the Board of Trade building, looking northwest from the intersection of 49th and Main Streets, circa 1980. The Kansas City Board of trade moved to this building in 1966. The Sulgrave Apartments tower, at 121 West 48th Street, can be seen at the left edge of the image.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: South Plaza Buildings
Description: Photograph, looking south along Baltimore Avenue, of South Plaza apartment and office buildings in the late 1980s. The Casa Loma East and West and Biarritz apartment buildings can be seen to the south of Ward Parkway, with the Sulgrave apartment building to their south. East of Baltimore, the One Ward Parkway, Board of Trade, and 4900 Main office buildings are pictured, from north to south.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Ward Parkway Apartment Buildings
Description: Photograph of apartment and condominium buildings along Ward Parkway during the 1980s. The buildings, on the south side of Brush Creek, stand between Wornall Road and Main Street. Halls department store, at the intersection of Wyandotte and Ward Parkway, is also pictured. The Sulgrave and Regency high rise buildings, at the rear of the image, were built in the early 1960s. The brick apartment buildings lining Ward Parkway, including the Locarno and Casa Loma Apartments, were built between 1923 and 1929.
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: 47th and Main Intersection
Description: Photograph, looking south from the top of the Fountain View (later American Century Investments north tower), toward the intersection of 47th and Main Streets circa 1987. Streetcar tracks can be seen running behind commercial buildings in the foreground, south diagonally across Main Street, before running alongside Brookside Boulevard south of Brush Creek. The Plaza Tennis Center courts are visible in the center of the image. Main Street and Brookside Boulevard were later realigned as part of a Brush Creek beautification and flood control project in the 1990s.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 47th and Main Intersection
Description: Photograph, looking south from the top of the Fountain View (later American Century Investments north tower), toward the intersection of 47th and Main Streets. Streetcar tracks can be seen running behind commercial buildings in the foreground, south diagonally across Main Street, before running alongside Brookside Boulevard south of Brush Creek. The Plaza Tennis Center courts are visible in the center of the image. Main Street and Brookside Boulevard were later realigned as part of a Brush Creek beautification and flood control project in the 1990s.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 47th and Main Intersection
Description: Photograph, looking south from the top of the Fountain View (later American Century Investments north tower), toward the intersection of 47th and Main Streets. Streetcar tracks can be seen running behind commercial buildings in the foreground, south diagonally across Main Street, before running alongside Brookside Boulevard south of Brush Creek. The Plaza Tennis Center courts are visible in the center of the image. Main Street and Brookside Boulevard were later realigned as part of a Brush Creek beautification and flood control project in the 1990s.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 4500 Block of Main Street
Description: Photograph, looking southwest, of the west side of the 4500 block of Main Street circa 1980. Spanish-style apartment buildings, at 4502 and 4506 Main Street, can be seen on the west side of the street, and were later demolished for the construction of the Fountain View (later American Century) office towers. The Sulgrave and Regency highrise apartment towers, located on 48th Street, are visible in the background of the image.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 4904 Baltimore Avenue
Description: Photograph of a house at 4904 Baltimore Avenue in the 1980s. The Sulgrave Apartments building, at 121 West 48th Street, stands to the north. The house and others on its block were later demolished when Baltimore between 48th and 50th Streets was closed to construct a parking garage for the 4900 Main office building.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Plaza Tennis Courts
Description: Photograph of tennis courts at the Plaza Tennis Center, between 47th Street and Ward Parkway on the north and south, and Brookside Boulevard and Baltimore Avenue on the east and west, during the 1980s. The tennis complex was built in 1928. Looking southwest over the courts, numerous Ward Parkway apartment buildings can be seen, including the Casa Loma Apartments and Locarno Plaza Apartments.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

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