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Meyer Building
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Description
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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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Title
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101-03 East 40th Street
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Description
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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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Title
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Kansas City Art Institute
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Description
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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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Title
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Nelson Art Gallery South Lawn
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Description
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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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Title
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Kansas City Art Institute Student Center
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Description
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Photograph of a Kansas City Art Institute dormitory building at 45th and Warwick in the early 1980s. Construction on this building, and an attached twin neighboring building, began in 1962.
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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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Montrose Apartments
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Description
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Photograph of the Montrose Apartments building at the corner of Walnut, 40th, and Main Streets in the early 1980s. The building was designed by Shepard & Wiser and built in 1923. It was demolished in early 1998 and the site used for a parking lot. The Old Westport Cashsaver grocery store can be seen to the north of the building.
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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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4325 Warwick Boulevard
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Description
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Photograph of the driveway and carriage house garage of the property at 4325 Warwick Boulevard in the early 1980s. The house was built circa 1909, with the garage added later. The property is also known as the R. S. Lemon Residence, after an early resident.
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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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4302-04 Oak Street
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Description
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Photograph of a sixplex colonnade apartment building at 4302-04 Oak Street in the early 1980s. Construction scaffolding is erected at the front of the building. 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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1980~/1989~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Kansas City Art Institute
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Description
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Photograph of 44th Street looking west toward Warwick from Oak Street in the early 1980s. Kansas City Art Institute's East Building stands on the south side of the block.
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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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Southwell Building
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Description
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Photograph of the Southwell Building at the intersection of Main Street and Westport Road, in the late 1970s. The building was designed by architects McKecknie and Trask and opened in 1929. A real estate sign hangs in the window of the storefront at 3935 Main, which was recently occupied by Howard E. Thruman Institutional Church, and a door to the second-floor Harling's Upstairs Bar and Grill can be seen at the right of the image. Moten's Shoe Repair occupies the neighboring building to the north.
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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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Kansas City Art Institute Volker Building
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Description
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Photograph of Kansas City Art Institute's Volker Building at 305 East 44th Street, in the early 1980s. Construction of the building was completed in 1948, and the building was used as a home for the school's sculpture and ceramics programs.
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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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4104 Warwick Boulevard
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Description
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Photograph of the apartment building at 4104 Warwick Boulevard in the early 1980s. The building was constructed in the 1920s, and the neighboring house to the south was demolished in the early 1980s to create a parking lot for the building.
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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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Nelson Art Gallery
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Description
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Photograph looking east from the top of the Fountain View (later American Century Investments north tower) of the west side of the Nelson Art Gallery, circa 1987. The Simpson House can be seen in the foreground 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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Title
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One Main Plaza and Marriott Hotel
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Description
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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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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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3900 Block of Main
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Description
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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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Title
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Werby Building
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Description
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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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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Salvation Army Thrift Store
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Description
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Photograph of the Salvation Army Thrift Store, operating in the Warwick Theater building at 3927 Main Street, circa 1983. The building opened as a movie theater in 1928 and was designed by the Bollar Brothers, but was covered by a more recent metal facade over the original architecture. The Meyer Building can be seen to the north of the Warwick building, and Dorothy's Swap-Shop is to its south.
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Date
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1983~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Christian Science Reading Room
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Description
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Photograph of the Christian Science Reading Room at 3921 Main Street, circa 1982, in a building constructed in 1921. The vacant lot to its left is the site of the former Werby Building, demolished in 1979, and part of the Meyer Building can be seen 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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Title
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Bell Restaurant
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Description
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Photograph of Bell Restaurant at 3947 Main Street, circa 1981. The building opened in 1924 as a neighborhood grocery store, and Bell operated in the location from 1969 until it closed in 1986.
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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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Dorothy's Swap-Shop and Moten's Shoe Repair
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Description
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Photograph of Dorothy's Swap-Shop at 3931 Main, and Moten's Shoe Repair at 3933 Main, circa 1983. The facades of both buildings were altered from their original designs in 1946. A storefront church can be seen in the neighboring Southwell Building.
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Date
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1983~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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