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Title: 301-21 East 43rd Street
Description: 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.
Date: 1981~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Seville Plaza Apartments
Description: 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.
Date: 1981~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Bell Restaurant
Description: 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.
Date: 1981~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Rockhill Tennis Club
Description: Photograph of the property at 4520 Kenwood Avenue, circa 1981, looking east from Rockhill Road. The house, adjacent to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, was initially known as "Stonehouse," the home of William Rockhill Nelson's daughter Laura and her husband Irving Kirkwood upon their 1910 marriage. It was later purchased by local lumber company executive DeVere Dierks, before serving as the home of the Rockhill Tennis Club from 1955 to 2010. A swingset and other playground equipment can be seen on the lawn of the property.
Date: 1981~
Object Type: Photograph

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