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Title: Montreux Apartments
Description: Photograph, looking east from the top of the Fountain View (later American Century Investments north tower), of the Montreux on the Plaza apartments, at 4515 Walnut Street, circa 1987. The Oak Hall apartment building is visible to the east, at right.
Date: 1987~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Southwell Building
Description: 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. The Shape Shop and Love Records & Tapes are other ground-floor tenants, with Harling's Upstairs Bar and Grill occupying the second floor. Moten's Shoe Repair occupies the neighboring building to the north. Signs for Clint's Books and Bell Restaurant can be seen on the building to the south.
Date: 1970~/1979~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Plaza Area Plan Area with Specific Guidelines
Description: Map created by the Kansas City Landmarks Commission as part of a 1980s Plaza Plan presentation, encompassing an area from State Line Road east to The Paseo, and from Westport Road & 39th Street south to 55th Street. The map illustrates an area with specific planning guidelines from 43rd south to Brush Creek Boulevard, and from Main Street east to Warwick Boulevard, and is a detail view of the larger Planning Recommendations map. Area plans, dealing with transportation, development, and zoning, among other factors, were developed over time for a number of Kansas City areas and are intended to provide guidance for their growth and design.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Map

Title: Simpson House
Description: Photograph of the Simpson House at 4509 Walnut Street in the early 1980s. The home was built in 1909 for Burnett Simpson and was occupied by the family until 1983, when it was acquired by the neighboring All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church for use as an event space and additional space for church activities.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 4112 Warwick Boulevard
Description: Photograph of a house at 4112 Warwick Boulevard in the early 1980s. The house immediately to the north had been recently demolished to make way for a parking lot for a neighboring apartment building.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 4108-10 Warwick Boulevard
Description: Photograph of a duplex residence at 4108-10 Warwick Boulevard in the early 1980s. The building was later demolished to create a parking lot for the neighboring apartment buidling.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Simpson House
Description: Photograph of the Simpson House at 4509 Walnut Street in the early 1980s, showing a closer view of the arched front door and the approach to the door. The home was built in 1909 for Burnett Simpson and was occupied by the family until 1983, when it was acquired by the neighboring All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church for use as an event space and additional space for church activities.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 39th and Main Streets
Description: 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.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 610 East 47th Street
Description: Photograph of a house at 610 East 47th Street in the early 1980s. The house, known as the "Rockhill Clubhouse," was built by William Rockhill Nelson circa 1902 and stands adjacent to his former Oak Hall property (now the Nelson-Atkins Musuem of Art) at the corner of Rockhill Road and 47th Street/Emanuel Cleaver II Boulevard.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 3921 Warwick Boulevard
Description: Photograph of a house at 3921 Warwick Boulevard in the early 1980s. The ornamented roofline of Westport High School can be seen in the background of the image, above garage at the rear of the property. The neighboring house to the north, visible at the left edge of the image, and other houses on the north end of the block were razed to make room for an additional parking lot for the high school.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 3923 Warwick Boulevard
Description: Photograph of a house at 3923 Warwick Boulevard in the early 1980s. Numerous houses on the north end of the block had recently been razed to make room for an additional parking lot for Westport High School, one block to the east.
Date: 1980~/1989~
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: Clint's Comics
Description: 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.
Date: 1982~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Mineral Hall
Description: Photograph of the home known as Mineral Hall, circa 1982. The building was designed in 1903 by Louis Curtiss, and was the residence of Roland Bruner, whose mining wealth inspired the Mineral Hall name. A small 1905 addition to the home was designed to house Bruner's collection of mineral specimens. It was donated to the Kansas City Art Institute in 1968, and at the time of the photo, housed various administrative offices for the school and studio space for faculty. The home was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
Date: 1982~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 90 Minute Dry Cleaners and A1 Sewing Machine Company
Description: 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.
Date: 1982~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Meyer Building
Description: 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.
Date: 1982~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Meyer Building
Description: 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.
Date: 1982~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Meyer Building
Description: 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.
Date: 1982~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 101-03 East 40th Street
Description: 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.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kansas City Art Institute
Description: 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.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

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