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Title: Childhood Nostalgia Spurs Mine Research
Description: Article about coal mining near Brush Creek.
Date: 1999-01-23
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Pondering a Sweeping Vista of Brush Creek Beauty
Description: Illustrations and map of proposed improvements along Brush Creek. The design was developed by Bucher, Willis & Ratliff Consulting Engineers, Planners & Architects under commission by the parks department. Target date for completion is 2020; flood control portion, 2011.
Date: 2003-05-14
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: How People, Institutions and Floods Shaped the Development of the Brush Creek Corridor: A History
Description: In the first of two articles about Brush Creek, the author traces the history of the area around Brush Creek, touching on important people and institutions such as William Rockhill Nelson, J.C. Nichols and Rockhurst Collge.
Date: 2004-04-01
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: First Overhaul on Brush Creek
Description: The paving of the creek bed began in November 1935, at a cost originally estimated at $1,395,000, and at one time employed 1,647 WPA workers. Concrete was laid eight to 10 inches thick and 70 feet wide. City officials explained at the time that paving the creek bed would prevent accumulation of stagnant pools, which had created a nuisance and would also permit the channel to empty floodwaters into the Blue River an hour or more sooner and prevent backing up. Severe flooding occurred on the creek in 1934 and 1935. Opponents of the T. J. Pendergast political machine then in control of the city affairs criticized the project, however, as a windfall for Pendergast's concrete company [Ready-Mixed Concrete Company].
Date: 1962-06-20
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Country Club Plaza
Description: View of the Country Club Plaza looking toward the northeast and taken from the Alameda Plaza Hotel. The north/south street by the hotel is Wornall Road at the intersection of Brush Creek Boulevard. Ward Parkway intersects Wornall Road on the opposite side of Brush Creek. Various Plaza stores are in view.
Date: 1972-07
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Seeking Brush Creek's Promise
Description: According to this article, the development of Brush Creek involved three parts: (1) a flood protection project; (2) a project prettier than the concrete trough the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers suggested; (3) to promote development along the creek which would be a magnet for people. Efforts to promote people to the area have so far mostly failed. Events that might work are mentioned. Includes a map of the creek entitled "Along Brush Creek." Work on the creek was spurred by the 1977 flood that swamped the Plaza and took 25 lives. The Corps of Engineers agreed to build a protection system that would essentially create a large trough from Roanoke Parkway to Troost Avenue. Within it would flow the trickle that Brush Creek remains upstream from Roanoke.
Date: 2005-07-11
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Brickyard and Quarry near Brush Creek
Description: View looking south of brickyard and quarry located south of Brush Creek, west of Main Street. Shows grade of 49th Street and Baltimore Avenue (178 ft) and 49th Street and Main Street (147 ft.),
Date: 1926
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Brush Creek near Prospect Avenue
Description: View looking southeast down Brush Creek near Prospect Avenue.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Brush Creek and Surrounding Area
Description: Aerial view of Brush Creek and surrounding area, looking west from Paseo Boulevard.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Alameda Plaza Hotel
Description: View looking south on Wornall Road across Brush Creek at the Alameda Plaza Hotel.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Brush Creek and Brickyard Location
Description: View of brickyard and rock quarry south of Brush Creek and west of Main Street. Includes Brush Creek in foreground and housing developments at 49th Street and Baltimore Avenue.
Date: 1926
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Brush Creek Area
Description: Overhead view of Brush Creek area between McGee and Main streets, as seen from the roof of Sophian Plaza looking southeast. Includes Country Club Car line, E.C. White School, and Brookside Boulevard.
Date: 1926
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Brush Creek from Cleveland Avenue
Description: View looking west up Brush Creek from Cleveland Avenue.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Wornall Road Bridge over Brush Creek
Description: Postcard of the old Wornall Road Bridge over Brush Creek in the Country Club Plaza.
Object Type: Postcard

Title: Double-arch Bridge Over Brush Creek
Description: Postcard of a double-arch bridge over Brush Creek.
Date: 1910
Object Type: Postcard

Title: Bridge on Rockhill Road, Kansas City, Mo.
Description: Postcard showing the stone Rockhill Road Bridge that once spanned Brush Creek. The bridge had previously been known as the Nelson Bridge.
Date: 1910
Object Type: Postcard

Title: Stone Bridge, Dyke's Branch (Brush Creek)
Description: Postcard of a stone bridge over Dyke's Branch, later identified as Brush Creek.
Object Type: Postcard

Title: Brush Creek
Description: Looking south along Brush Creek at State Line Road.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Brush Creek
Description: Exterior view, looking east, of Brush Creek flowing through the Country Club Plaza area.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Robert L. Sweet Aboretum
Description: Looking north from south side of Volker; located on north side of Volker between Brookside Boulevard and Oak. Destroyed during renovation of Brush Creek.
Date: 1993
Object Type: Photograph

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