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Southmoreland and Plaza Buildings
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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.
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Date
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1987~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Main Street Buildings and Southmoreland
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Photograph, looking east from the top of the Fountain View (later American Century Investments north tower), circa 1987. One Main Plaza office building occupies the left side of the image, and the Marriott Hotel on the right. The Southmoreland neighborhood and Kansas City Art Institute campus are visible between the buildings.
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Date
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1987~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Hilton Plaza Hotel and Southmoreland Neighborhood
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Photograph, looking east from the top of the Fountain View (later American Century Investments north tower), of the Hilton Plaza Hotel at 1 East 45th Street circa 1987. To the east across Walnut Street, the All Souls Unitarian Church is pictured at the left edge of the image, and the Simpson House, at 4509 Walnut, and the Montreux apartments stand to the south. The Oak Hall and Sophian Plaza apartment buildings are also pictured at right, and the Nelson Art Gallery can be seen to the east.
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Date
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1987~
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Photograph
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Hilton Plaza Hotel and Southmoreland Neighborhood
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Photograph, looking east from the top of the Fountain View (later American Century Investments north tower), of the Hilton Plaza Inn at 1 East 45th Street circa 1987. The Montreux apartments, at 4515 Walnut, are visible to the east The Oak Hall and Sophian Plaza apartment buildings are also pictured in the background of the image.
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Date
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1987~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Hilton Plaza Hotel and Southmoreland Neighborhood
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Photograph, looking east from the top of the Fountain View (later American Century Investments north tower), of the Hilton Plaza Inn at 1 East 45th Street circa 1987. The Montreux apartments to its south are to the hotel's east at 4515 Walnut. The Oak Hall and Sophian Plaza apartment buildings are also pictured in the background of the image, along with other apartment buildings lining 47th Street.
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Date
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1987~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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301-21 East 43rd Street
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Photograph of a block of Kansas City sixplex colonnade apartments at 301-21 East 43rd Street, at the corner of 43rd and McGee, circa 1981. These apartments, in a variation on a style common in the city, were built in the early 1920s, and remain standing as of 2018.
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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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Kansas City Art Institute
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Photograph of Warwick Boulevard just south of its intersection with 45th Street, looking northwest adjacent to the Kansas City Art Institute, circa 1980. KCAI's Student Living Center can be seen at the right of the image, and a brick gateway entrance to the campus at the left edge of the image.
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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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39th and Main Streets
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Photograph of the northeast corner of 39th and Main Streets, circa 1980, including the Hotel Netherlands apartment building. The Hyde Park building, at right, opened in 1916, and at the time of this photo, the ground floor was occupied by the Adult Literary Guild adult bookstore, which was evicted in 1982 as part of a neighborhood redevelopment effort lead by J. Nelson Happy.
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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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Seville Plaza Apartments
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Photograph of the Seville Plaza Apartments, at 4545-47 Main Street, circa 1981. While most of the buildings on the block were razed to for parking lots or new hotels and other construction, this building remains as of 2018.
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1981~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Clint's Comics
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Photograph of Clint's Comics, at 3943 Main, and neighboring businesses at the intersection of Main Street and westport Road, circa 1982. Signs for Harling's Upstairs bar and Love Records can be seen on the Southwell Building to the north, and Bell's Restaurant is in the adjacent building to the south. Clint's later moved to the Love Records space and operated there for several decades.
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Date
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1982~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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90 Minute Dry Cleaners and A1 Sewing Machine Company
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Description
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Photograph of 90 Minute Dry Cleaners at 3951 Main Street, and A1 Sewing Machine Company at 3957 Main, circa 1982. The original facade of the building was replaced after a major fire started in the dry cleaning business in 1976.
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Date
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1982~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Meyer Building
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Photograph of the Meyer Building at 3923-25 Main Street, circa 1982, which was designed by architect Robert F. Gornall and built in 1916. Midwest Cyclery is the building's current ground-floor tenant. A Christian Science Reading Room, at 3921 Main, stands to its left, and a Salvation Army thrift store, in the former Warwick Theater, is to its right.
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Date
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1982~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Meyer Building
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Photograph of the Meyer Building at 3923-25 Main Street, circa 1982, which was designed by architect Robert F. Gornall and built in 1916. A thrift shop is the building's ground-floor tenant at the time of the photo. A Christian Science Reading Room, at 3921 Main, stands to its left, and a Salvation Army thrift store, in the former Warwick Theater, is to its right.
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Date
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1982~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Meyer Building
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Photograph of the Meyer Building at 3923-25 Main Street, circa 1982, which was designed by architect Robert F. Gornall and built in 1916. Midwest Cyclery is the building's current ground-floor tenant. A Christian Science Reading Room, at 3921 Main, stands to its left, and a Salvation Army thrift store, in the former Warwick Theater, is to its right.
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Date
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1982~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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101-03 East 40th Street
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Photograph of apartment buildings at the southeast corner of 40th and Walnut Streets, including Merton Hall at 101 East 40th Street, circa 1980. Merton Hall, and the Elmore Apartments building to the east, are eight-plex Kansas City Colonnade buildings, with columned porches at their fronts, built in the early 1920s. Merton Hall suffered a major fire in April 1983, and was torn down a week later. The others buildings in view in the image were later also demolished and the property used by the neighboring St. Paul's Episcopal Church as sports fields and gardens.
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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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Kansas City Art Institute
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Photograph of Warwick Boulevard just south of its intersection with 45th Street, looking northwest adjacent to the Kansas City Art Institute, circa 1980. KCAI's Student Living Center can be seen at the right of the image, and a brick gateway entrance to the campus at the left edge of the image.
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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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Nelson Art Gallery South Lawn
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Photograph, looking south from the south entrance of the Nelson Art Gallery, circa 1986. The view overlooks the Nelson's south lawn, across 47th Street, and across Theis Park and the Volker Memorial Fountain.
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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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One Main Plaza and Marriott Hotel
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Photograph, looking east from the top of the Fountain View (later American Century Investments north tower), of the One Main Plaza office building at 4435 Main and the Marriott Hotel at 4445 Main Street circa 1987. Buildings on the Kansas City Art Institute campus can be seen to the east across Warwick Boulevard.
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Date
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1987~
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Photograph
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3900 Block of Main
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Photograph of the eastern side of the 3900 block of Main Street, circa 1982, after the razing of the Werby Building at the north end of the block in 1979. The blue facade of a Salvation Army thriftstore can be seen at 3927 Main, located in the former Warwick Theater. The Southwell Building, at 3941 Main, is home to Harling's Upstairs bar and music venue. Clint's Comics, at 3943 Main, is surrounded by other shops and businesses. The Netherlands Hotel building, on the north side of 39th Street, can be seen in the background of the image.
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Date
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1982~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Werby Building
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Photograph of the Werby Building at the southeast corner of 39th and Main Streets in 1979. The building was designed by Greenebaum, Hardy and Schumacher, opened in 1924, and consisted of office spaces on the second floor and storefronts on the ground level. Efforts to save the building from demolition led to Mayor Richard Berkley named a week in April 1979 "Werby Week," but it was razed not long after. Signs on plywood boards across the storefronts advertise a "Take Back the Night" event, an anti-nuclear energy rally to take place in Burlington, Kansas, at the Wolf Creek Generating Station, and upcoming concerts. The Hyde Park Building, on the northeast corner of 39th and Main, can be seen at the left of the photo, with the Hotel Netherlands to its north.
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Date
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1979
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Photograph
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