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Title: Robert Baker Interiors House at 4317 Main
Description: View looking east of a house that once stood at 4317 Main Street between its intersection with 43rd and 44th streets. A sign for Robert Bakers Interiors, Inc. can be seen in the front yard.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Meyer Building
Description: View looking east of the Meyer Building on Main Street between its intersections with 39th and 40th streets in Midtown. Signs for Pacific Finance and Liebstadter Real Estate & Insurance can be seen.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Southwell Building
Description: View looking east of the Southwell Building on Main Street at its intersection with Westport Road. Signs for JR's Discount, The Shape Shop, and Love Records can be seen.
Object Type: Photograph

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: 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

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: 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: 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: J.C. Nichols Fountain
Description: View of the J.C. Nichols Fountain in Mill Creek Park near the Country Club Plaza.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

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