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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: Baltimore Avenue through the Plaza
Description: Photograph looking north on Baltimore Avenue, just north of Ward Parkway, circa 1987. The Fountain View building (later American Century Investments north tower) is visible in the center of the image, with the One Main Plaza office building and Marriott Hotel, on Main Street, visible at right.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Embassy Suites and Westport
Description: Photograph, looking northwest from the top of the Fountain View (later American Century Investments north tower), toward Westport circa 1987. The Embassy Suites hotel, at at 220 West 43rd Street, occupies the center of the image, with commercial buildings in Westport occupying the background of the image. J. C. Nichols Parkway curves through the upper right, and a building on the St. Luke's Hospital campus occupies the lower left.
Date: 1987~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Neptune Apartments
Description: Photograph of the Neptune Apartments building, looking north east from Broadway Boulevard, at 333 West 46th Terrace circa 1987. The Neptune was built and opened in 1987. The commercial Balcony Building stands to its south on 47th Street, with additional Plaza retail buildings and parking lots photographed on the 4700 block of Broadway. The Fountain View (later American Century Investments north tower) office building and Marriott Hotel can be seen in the background at right.
Date: 1987~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Main Street, South Plaza
Description: Photograph looking north on Main Street through the South Plaza circa 1987. Country Club Bank is pictured at left, at 1 Ward Parkway. Fountain View (later the American Century Investments north tower) is pictured in the background, at 45th and Main. The Plaza Branch of the Kansas City Public Library is pictured at right.
Date: 1987~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Raphael Hotel
Description: Photograph of the Raphael Hotel, at 325 Ward Parkway, looking south across Brush Creek, in the 1980s. Originally built in 1928 as the Villa Serena Apartment Hotel, it was renovated and opened as a hotel in 1975.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: J. C. Nichols Parkway and Main Street through Midtown
Description: Photograph looking north from the top of the Fountain View (later American Century Investments north tower) along J. C. Nichols Parkway/Broadway Boulevard (at left) and Main Street (at right) circa 1987. The Embassy Suites hotel, at at 220 West 43rd Street, is at left, with the streetcar 43rd Street viaduct cross over the intersection of 43rd Street and J. C. Nichols Parkway. Commercial and residential buildings, including the H&R Block headquarters in the lower right corner, line both streets. The downtown skyline can be seen in the background of the image.
Date: 1987~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Southmoreland and Plaza Buildings
Description: Photograph, looking southeast from the top of the Fountain View (later American Century Investments north tower), across 47th Street toward the UMKC campus circa 1987. The Hilton Plaza Inn, at 1 West 45th, occupies the bottom left corner of the image, and numerous residential buildings are pictured lining 47th Street. 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. Main Street and Brookside Boulevard were later realigned as part of a Brush Creek beautification and flood control project in the 1990s.
Date: 1987~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: J. C. Nichols Parkway and Main Street through Midtown
Description: Photograph looking northwest from the top of the Fountain View building (later American Century north tower) along J. C. Nichols Parkway/Broadway Boulevard from roughly 44th Street circa 1987. Buildings on the St. Luke's Hospital campus can be seen at the left edge of the image, and an Embassy Suites Hotel at 220 West 43rd Street at the center of the photo. Buildings in Westport, along Armour Boulevard, and Downtown can be seen in the background of the image. Baltimore Avenue runs north/south at the right edge of the image.
Date: 1987~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: South View from City Hall Roof
Description: Photograph, looking northwest from the roof of City Hall, of the Downtown, Crossroads, and Crown Center areas circa 1986. Oak Street runs north/south at the left of the image, and McGee Street runs through the middle of the photograph. The Hyatt Regency Hotel, at 2345 McGee, is among the buildings visible in the background of the image. The Sprint Center area was built on the blocks in the foreground, north of I-670, between 2005-2007.
Date: 1986~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: H&R Block Headquarters
Description: Photograph, taken from the top of the Marriott Hotel at 45th and Main, looking northwest circa 1987. The H&R Block headquarters building is seen at the center of the image, on the west side of Main, with the Embassy Suites Hotel visible to the northwest. Broadway Boulevard can be seen bending west through Westport in the background. The One Main Plaza office building can be seen at the right edge of the image.
Date: 1987~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Broadway Boulevard through the Plaza
Description: Photograph of the west side of Broadway Boulevard, looking south, through the Country Club Plaza area circa 1987. The Broadway Building stands is pictured in the foreground at right, with the Plaza Time building to its south. The Alameda Plaza Hotel, at 401 Ward Parkway, stands in the background of the image.
Date: 1987~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Plaza Aerial View
Description: Aerial photograph looking east through the Plaza along Brush Creek and Ward Parkway in the 1980s. Plaza-area commercial and residential buildings filling the bulk of the image, from roughly Roanoke Parkway on the west to McGee at the east.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph, Cityscapes

Title: Intersection of Ward Parkway and 48th Street
Description: Photograph of the intersection of 48th Street and Ward Parkway, looking southeast along 48th Street, in the early 1980s. The Raphael Hotel, formerly the Villa Serena Apartments, at 321 Ward Parkway, is pictured at right. The Regency House Apartments occupy the center of the image, and the Locaro Apartments building, at 235 Ward Parkway, is pictured at left.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

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