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Westport Junior High School & Westport High School
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Description
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Photograph of Westport Junior High School, foreground, and Westport High School, background, on 39th Street circa 1980. The high school was built in 1908, and the middle school was built in 1924 as a junior high school, and served as Kansas City Junior College from 1942 to 1969, and then a temporary location for Manual High School from 1969 to 1977, then returned to use as a junior high, and later middle, school. Both school buildings were closed by the Kansas City School District in 2010, and sold to private developers in 2014.
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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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47th and Main Intersection
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Description
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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.
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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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3901-3915 Main Street
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Description
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Photograph of demolition of buildings in the early 1980s at 3901 - 3915 Main Street, including the Werby Building on the southeast corner at the intersection of 39th and Main Streets. The spire of the Calvary Baptist Church at 3921 Baltimore can be seen in the background.
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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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Northeast Corner of 47th and Main
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Description
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Photograph of the northeast corner of 47th and Main Streets circa 1980. Seen from near the southeast corner of the intersection, the rear of the Community Christian Church can be seen across 47th Street and a Country Club Plaza employee parking lot. The Parkway Towers apartment building can be seen in the background at left, and the Ponce de Leon Apartments in the background at right.
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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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47th and Main Intersection
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Description
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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.
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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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4400 Block of Main Street
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Description
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Photograph of buildings on the 4600 block of Main Street circa 1987. The photograh is taken adjacent to a QuikTrip gas station/convenience store at 4327 Main Street, looking south. The One Main Plaza office building occupies the left side of the image, and the Fountain View (later American Century Investments north tower) stands at the right side of the image, with the H;amp;R Block headquarters and several apartment buildings to its north. The apartment buildings were later demolished to expand the H;amp;R Block facility.
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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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Nelson Art Gallery Interior Detail
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Description
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Architectural detail photograph from an interior hallway in the Nelson Art Gallery in the early 1980s. The image captures curved marble walls, pendant light fixtures, a marble urn on a pedestal, and ornate images on domed ceilings.
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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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Community Christian Church
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Description
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Photograph of the Community Christian Church at 4601 Main Street circa 1980. The church was designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright and dedicated in 1942.
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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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William Volker Memorial Fountain
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Description
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Photograph of the William Volker Memorial Fountain, looking north from the south end of Theis Park near the intersection of Oak Street and Volker Boulevard, in the early 1980s. The fountain, dedicated in 1958, was moved further south toward Volker in the 1990s as part of a redesign of Brush Creek and Theis Park. The Nelson Art Gallery building, at 4425 Oak Street, can be seen in the background 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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Trolley Tracks at 47th & Main Streets
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Description
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Photograph of the inactive trolley tracks crossing 47th Street at the northeast corner of 47th and Main, circa 1980. The Parkway Towers apartment building, at 4545 Wornall Road, can be seen in the background at left. Construction of the Gilbert Robinson Plaza office building began on the site in 1981.
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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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J. C. Nichols Parkway and Main Street through Midtown
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Description
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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.
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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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Nelson Art Gallery
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Description
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Photograph of the front facade and driveway of the Nelson Art Gallery, looking south from 45th Street, in the early 1980s. A replica of Rodin's sculpture "The Thinker" stands in the median garden.
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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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H&R Block Headquarters
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Description
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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.
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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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Westport High School
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Description
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Photograph of Westport High School on 39th Street circa 1980. The high school was built in 1908. Westport High School was closed by the Kansas City School District in 2010, and sold to private developers in 2014.
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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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Intersection of 45th and Main Streets
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Description
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Photograph of the intersection of 45th and Main Streets, looking south along Main, in the early 1980s. 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 Hilton Plaza Inn hotel, at 1 East 45th, can be seen at left.
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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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Plaza Area Main Street Buildings
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Description
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Photograph looking north across Brush Creek and Ward Parkway of buildings along Main Street circa 1987. Fountain View (later American Century Investments north tower), at 4500 Main Street, One Main Plaza at 4435 Main, and the Marriott Hotel, at 4445 Main, are among the buildings pictured. The Plaza's Giralda Tower can be seen at the left side 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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Plaza Tennis Center and Gilbert/Robinson Building
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Description
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Photograph, looking east from Giralda Tower along 47th Street, circa 1987. The Plaza Tennis Center is pictured at lower right, and the Gilbert/Robinson office building, at 2 East 47th Street, is visible at the center 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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47th and Main Intersection
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Description
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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.
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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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Nelson Art Gallery
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Description
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Photograph of the Nelson Art Gallery, at 4525 Oak Street, looking north from Theis Park across 47th Street circa 1987.
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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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46th and 47th Street Apartment Buildings
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Description
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Photograph, looking southeast from the top of the Fountain View building (later American Century north tower) of apartment buildings on the north and south sides of 47th Street circa 1987. The Sophian Plaza building, at 4618 Warwick, is seen at the left side of the image, with apartment buildings lining 46th Street, and behind them 47th Street, in the center of the image. Behind them, office buildings on Volker Boulevard, and further south, buildings on the UMKC campus, are pictured.
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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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