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Landmarks Commission Slides Finding Aid
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Description
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The Landmarks Commission was established in 1970 to locate and identify Kansas City’s historic and architecturally significant structures and districts. This collection of slides contains images of Kansas City’s residences, businesses, churches, landmarks, and views of the city.
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Date
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1970~/1999~
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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Title
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3406 Pennsylvania Avenue
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Description
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Photograph of a house located at 3406 Pennsylvania Avenue circa 1981. The house has since been demolished, along with many other single-family homes on that block.
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Date
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1981~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Unidentified West Plaza Apartment Building
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1986~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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9-23 East 34th Street
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1984~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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215 West 53rd Terrace
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Description
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Photograph circa 1980s of a closeup of the front door of the single family home at 215 West 53rd Terrace, built in 1913. Placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984 as part of the Simpson-Yeomans / Country Side Historic District. Located in the Countryside neighborhood.
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Date
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1984~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Thomas Carlyle Apartments
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1990~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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9-23 East 34th Street
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1984~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Ambassador Apartments
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1981~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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9-23 East 34th Street
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1984~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Unidentified House
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Description
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Photograph of an unidentified house in the Plaza area, circa 1980. The street number "4845" hangs next to the front door.
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Date
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1980~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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4600 Independence Avenue
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1980~/1989~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Saint Stephen's Catholic Church Rectory
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Description
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Photograph of the St. Stephen's Catholic Church rectory at 1029 Bennington Avenue in the 1980s. Construction on the stone church building began in 1919. In 1990, the congregation was consolidated with the nearby Holy Trinity and St. Michael's churches in the St. Stephen's building, renamed Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church. The rectory stands immediately south of the church.
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Date
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1980~/1989~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Westminster Congregational Church Interior
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Description
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Interior photograph of the chapel interior of the Westminster Congregational Church at the southwest corner of 36th and Walnut in the early 1980s. Pews, an organ, and alter can be seen in the image. Construction began on the original section of building in May 1904, and it was opened and consecrated in 1907. An addition was added in 1912. The building was still home to the same church at the time of the photo, but the shrinking congregation voted to disband in July 1995.
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Date
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1980~/1989~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Trinity United Methodist Church
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1980~/1989~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Westminster Congregational Church
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Description
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Photograph of the Westminster Congregational Church at the southwest corner of 36th and Walnut, looking at its east-facing side, in the early 1980s. The construction began on the original section of building in May 1904, and it was opened and consecrated in 1907. An addition was added in 1912. The building was still home to the same church at the time of the photo, but the shrinking congregation voted to disband in July 1995.
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Date
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1980~/1989~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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1116 East 9th Street
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Description
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Photograph circa 1980s, taken from the vantage point of the corner of 9th Street and Forest Avenue, looking northwest, of the Orville Apartments at 1116 E. 9th Street. Designed by architect Otis Goddard, these apartments were torn down at some point in the 1990s. The First Church of Christ Scientist, visible in the left side of the photograph, at 900 Forest Avenue, is still standing as of 2018, though the congregation no longer resides there. Located in the Paseo West neighborhood.
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Date
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1980~/1989~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Westminster Congregational Church
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Description
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Photograph of the Westminster Congregational Church at the southwest corner of 36th and Walnut, looking southwest, in the early 1980s. The construction began on the original section of building in May 1904, and it was opened and consecrated in 1907. An addition was added in 1912. The building was still home to the same church at the time of the photo, but the shrinking congregation voted to disband in July 1995.
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Date
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1980~/1989~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Westminster Congregational Church Interior
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Description
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Interior photograph of an ornate door knob in the Westminster Congregational Church at the southwest corner of 36th and Walnut in the early 1980s. Construction began on the original section of building in May 1904, and it was opened and consecrated in 1907. An addition was added in 1912. The building was still home to the same church at the time of the photo, but the shrinking congregation voted to disband in July 1995.
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Date
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1980~/1989~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Saint Francis Seraph Catholic Church Rectory
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Description
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Photograph of the rectory of St. Francis Seraph Catholic Church in the 1980s. While the congregation began in the late 1800s, the buildings were constructed in 1924. The congregation was merged in 1990 with other neighboring parishes due to population decline. The rectory building and an adjacent school were demolished in 2011. The church building was demolished in 2018.
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Date
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1980~/1989~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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St. Luke's A.M.E. Church and Parsonage
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Description
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Photograph of the Saint Luke's A.M.E. Church, in a triangle created by the intersections of the corner of 43rd Street, Archibald Avenue and Roanoke Streets in the early 1980s. The church, established for freed slaves in Kansas City's Steptoe neighborhood after the Civil War, constructed the church building in 1882 and the parsonage at the rear of the property in 1891. It was razed in July 2003 due to building deterioration and the widening of 43rd Street. Prior to that, the church was the oldest church in Westport.
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Date
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1980~/1989~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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