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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: 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

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: 4331 Warwick Boulevard
Description: Photograph of a house at 4331 Warwick Boulevard in the early 1980s. The home is known as the Dr. William G. Logan Residence, after the physcian who was an early owner.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 4400 Warwick Boulevard
Description: Photograph of the stucco house at 4400 Warwick Boulevard in the early 1980s. The house, originally known as the James G. Strean Residence after an early resident, was purchased by the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and incorporated into the construction of their new Central Congregation facilities. The buildings were demolished in 1993 to provide parking for the new Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 4408 Warwick Boulevard
Description: Photograph of the house at 4408 Warwick Boulevard in the early 1980s. The house, originally known as the Stanley P. Christopher Residence after an early resident, was purchased by the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and incorporated into the construction of their new Central Congregation facilities. The buildings were demolished in 1993 to provide parking for the new Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kansas City Art Institute Student Center
Description: 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.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Montrose Apartments
Description: 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.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 4325 Warwick Boulevard
Description: 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.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Oak Hall
Description: Photograph of the Oak Hall apartment building at 4550 Warwick in the early 1980s, with its parking structure along Warwick in the foreground of the image. The apartment complex was built as a luxury 165-unit development in the early 1960s and opened to tenants in 1962.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 4302-04 Oak Street
Description: 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.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kansas City Art Institute
Description: 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.
Date: 1980~/1989~
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, 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.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 414 East 45th Street
Description: Photograph of a duplex home at 414 East 45th Street in the early 1980s. The duplex, along with a nearly identical neighboring duplex, was built circa 1928, and stands across 45th Street from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. The properties, along with two other residences, were later donated to the museum, creating concerns about demolition or other institutional encroachment into the neighborhood.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

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