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Title: Museum, Neighbors at Odds Over Club
Description: Article examining the dispute between the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and the Rockhill Tennis Club. The museum owns the tennis club property and wants to relocate offices to the club and use the surrounding grounds to house part of its outdoor sculpture garden. "Residents of the surrounding Rockhill and Southmoreland neighborhoods are opposed to the office plan."
Date: 2008-04-02
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Historic Building Spared From Demolition
Description: The apartment building at 43rd and Walnut streets has become the Southmoreland Condos building. The brick building was built in 1924 and was to be demolished at the end of 1999. Through the efforts of the Southmoreland neighborhood association, the building was donated to local developer Westside Housing Organization. Also involved was QuickTrip Co. who gave up tearing the building down to build a QuickTrip convenience store. Includes photograph of the building exterior.
Date: 2007-08-17
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: The Wish Bone
Description: Postcard showing the Wish Bone restaurant, once located at 4455 Main Street in the Southmoreland neighborhood of Kansas City, Missouri. A caption on the front of the card reads: "Featuring Fried Chicken and Prime Rib Dinners." The reverse side of the card reads: The Wish Bone Restaurant and Cocktail Lounge - Private Dining Rooms - Catering to Lunch and Dinner Parties - Featuring Excellent Food and Service In an Air of Gracious Hospitality."
Object Type: Postcard

Title: Oak Hall
Description: View of Oak Hall, the residence of William Rockhill Nelson, once located at 45th and Oak streets on the grounds of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Sanborn Map, Kansas City, Vol. 4, 1909-1950, Page p527
Description: A portion of Kansas City from E. 39th Street south to E. 40th Street and from Walnut Street east to Locust Street, showing buildings, streets, and additions. Large numbers at edges of page refer to page with adjoining area.
Date: 1909/1950
Object Type: Map

Title: Sanborn Map, Kansas City, Vol. 4, 1909-1950, Page p526
Description: A portion of Kansas City from E. 39th Street south to E. 40th Street and from Baltimore Avenue east to Walnut Street, showing buildings, streets, and additions. Large numbers at edges of page refer to page with adjoining area.
Date: 1909/1950
Object Type: Map

Title: Sanborn Map, Kansas City, Vol. 4, 1909-1950, Page p529
Description: A portion of Kansas City from E. 40th Street south to E. 41st Street and from Main Street east to Oak Street, showing buildings, streets, and additions. Large numbers at edges of page refer to page with adjoining area.
Date: 1909/1950
Object Type: Map

Title: Sanborn Map, Kansas City, Vol. 4, 1909-1950, Page p528
Description: A portion of Kansas City from E. 40th Street south to E. 43rd Street and from Oak Street east to Gillham Road, showing buildings, streets, and additions. Large numbers at edges of page refer to page with adjoining area.
Date: 1909/1950
Object Type: Map

Title: Sanborn Map, Kansas City, Vol. 4, 1909-1950, Page p574
Description: A portion of Kansas City from E. 44th Street south to E. 47th Street and from Walnut Street east to Kenwood Avenue, showing buildings, streets, and additions. Large numbers at edges of page refer to page with adjoining area. At top of map, "Add'l Sheet, Oct. 1916."
Date: 1909/1950
Object Type: Map

Title: Sanborn Map, Kansas City, Vol. 4, 1909-1950, Page p530
Description: A portion of Kansas City from E. 41st Street south to E. 43rd Street and from Main Street east to Oak Street, showing buildings, streets, and additions. Large numbers at edges of page refer to page with adjoining area.
Date: 1909/1950
Object Type: Map

Title: Sanborn Map, Kansas City, Vol. 4, 1909-1950, Page p573
Description: A portion of Kansas City from W. 44th Street south to W. 47th Street and from Pennsyvlania Avenue east to Main Street, showing buildings, streets, and additions. Large numbers at edges of page refer to page with adjoining area. At top of map, "Add'l Sheet, Oct. 1916."
Date: 1909/1950
Object Type: Map

Title: Sanborn Map, Kansas City, Vol. 4, 1909-1950, Page p565
Description: A portion of Kansas City from E. 43rd Street south to E. 45th Street and from Main Street east to McGee, showing buildings, streets, and additions. Large numbers at edges of page refer to page with adjoining area.
Date: 1909/1950
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: 4310 Warwick Boulevard Garage
Description: Photograph of the garage carriage house at the rear of the 4310 Warwick Boulevard property in the early 1980s. The building and driveway appear to be in a state of disrepair. The home was built in 1910 and became known as the Kersey Coates Reed Residence, for the Kansas City attorney and his bride, who were given the home in 1911 as a wedding gift by the bride's father, John G. Shedd, president of Chicago's Marshall Field & Co.
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: 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

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