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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 4104 Warwick Boulevard
Description: Photograph of the apartment building at 4104 Warwick Boulevard in the early 1980s. The building was constructed in the 1920s, and the neighboring house to the south was demolished in the early 1980s to create a parking lot for the building.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Edgemere Apartments
Description: Photograph of the Edgemere apartment building at 4201 Locust Street. The building opened to renters in 1922.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Afton Apartments
Description: Photograph of the Afton Apartment building at 112-22 East 43rd Street in the early 1980s. The colonnade-style building was built circa 1907, and a house at its rear was eventually demolished to build a parking lot for the building. A strip of commercial storefronts built circa 1927, occupied by Bremson Photo Industries at the time of the photo, can be seen at the background of the photo to the west of the Afton.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Werby Building
Description: Photograph of the Werby Building at the southeast corner of 39th and Main Streets in 1979. The building was designed by Greenebaum, Hardy and Schumacher, opened in 1924, and consisted of office spaces on the second floor and storefronts on the ground level. Efforts to save the building from demolition led to Mayor Richard Berkley named a week in April 1979 "Werby Week," but it was razed not long after. Signs on plywood boards across the storefronts advertise a "Take Back the Night" event, an anti-nuclear energy rally to take place in Burlington, Kansas, at the Wolf Creek Generating Station, and upcoming concerts. The Hyde Park Building, on the northeast corner of 39th and Main, can be seen at the left of the photo, with the Hotel Netherlands to its north.
Date: 1979
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Sophian Plaza
Description: Photograph of the Sophian Plaza apartment building at 4618 Warwick Boulevard in the early 1980s. The 47-unit building, designed by Shepard & Wiser and developed by Henry J. Sophian, was built in 1922, and converted to a condominium in 1978.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

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: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 215-217 East 46th Street
Description: Photograph of apartment buildings at 215-217 East 46th Street in the early 1980s. The apartment structure, which abuts an identical building at 219-21 East 46th, was built in 1923.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 218-220 Brush Creek Boulevard
Description: Photograph circa 1980s of an apartment-condominium building at 218-220 Brush Creek Boulevard (called Emanuel Cleaver II Boulevard since 1999). It was built in 1922 and is located in the Southmoreland neighborhood.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Westport and Main
Description: Photograph of the Montrose Apartments building at the corner of 40th and Main Streets in the early 1980s, looking east from the intersection of Westport Road and Main. 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. St. Paul's Episcopal Church stands to the south, across 40th Street.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Afton Apartments
Description: Photograph of the Afton Apartment building at 112-22 East 43rd Street in the early 1980s. The colonnade-style building was built circa 1907, and a house at its rear was eventually demolished to build a parking lot for the building.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 210-16 Brush Creek Boulevard
Description: Photograph circa 1980s of two apartment buildings on the north side of Brush Creek Boulevard (called Emanuel Cleaver II Boulevard since 1999), east of Main Street. 210-12 Brush Creek Boulevard (on the left) is called the Granada and 214-16 Brush Creek Boulevard is named Plaza 52. They were built in 1922.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 3951-79 Main Street
Description: Photographs of stores and an apartment building on the 3900 block of Main Street in the early 1980s. The Old Westport Cash Saver grocery store, at 3967 Main, and the Montrose Apartment building, at the corner of 40th, Walnut, and Main Streets, are among the buildings pictured. The Montrose Apartments were demolished in early 1998 and the site was used for a parking lot.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 39th and Main Streets
Description: Photograph of the intersection of 39th and Main Streets in the early 1980s. The Netherlands Hotel apartment building and commercial Hyde Park building can be seen on the northeast corner, and the New Earth Books & Records store in the former Price Candy Company building on the northwest corner. A Mobil gas station stands on the southwest corner. The photograph was taken after the demolition of the Werby Building on the southeast corner, circa 1980.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

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