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Title: Halls on the Plaza
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Halls Plaza Open during Renovation
Description: Reopening of expanded shopping center on the Country Club Plaza following reconstruction after the 1977 flood.
Date: 1979-04
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Local Clothes Expert Dies
Description: Ruth Nan, a clothing buyer who influenced the wardrobes of many Kansas City civic and social leaders, died Saturday [September 30, 2006] at St. Luke's Hospital. She was 87. She worked for 35 years for Swansons and Halls on the Country Club Plaza. She was valued by her local customers for her great taste in clothes and her pleasing personality. She traveled and brought well known designer clothes to the Midwest.
Date: 2006-10-01
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: A New Attraction for Kansas City Opening Tomorrow
Description: Article about the new Halls on the Plaza attraction.
Date: 1965-10-03
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Halls Silverware
Description: Interior view of the Halls Building located at 211 Nichols Road in the Country Club Plaza. The silverware department and customers can be seen.
Date: 1965-10-09
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Halls New Building
Description: View facing northeast of the Halls Building at 211 Nichols Road in the Country Club Plaza. The intersection of Central Street and Ward Parkway, a pedestrian, and parked cars can be seen.
Date: 1965-10-09
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Halls Store Building (Country Club Plaza)
Description: Partial frontal and side view; located at 211 Nichols Road on the Country Club Plaza.
Date: 1975
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Halls Department Store on Nichols Road
Description: Photograph of the Halls department store Plaza location, looking west down Nichols Road from Wyandotte Street, circa 1980. Other Plaza stores and buildings are visible in the background of the image.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Halls Department Store
Description: Photograph of the intersection of Wyandotte Street and Nichols Road, looking southwest, in the late 1970s. Halls department store stands on the southwest corner of the intersection, at 211 Nichols Road.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Ward Parkway Apartment Buildings
Description: Photograph of apartment and condominium buildings along Ward Parkway during the 1980s. The buildings, on the south side of Brush Creek, stand between Wornall Road and Main Street. Halls department store, at the intersection of Wyandotte and Ward Parkway, is also pictured. The Sulgrave and Regency high rise buildings, at the rear of the image, were built in the early 1960s. The brick apartment buildings lining Ward Parkway, including the Locarno and Casa Loma Apartments, were built between 1923 and 1929.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph, Cityscapes

Title: Stan Kenton Concert at Brush Creek
Description: Photograph of Stan Kenton and his band in concert in Brush Creek in 1976. Concertgoers sit on grassy areas sloping up from the concrete creek bed. A portion of the Halls department store building, on the north side of Brush Creek, is visible in the background of the image.
Date: 1976-06-27
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Plaza Tennis Courts & Residential Buildings
Description: Photograph of the east side of the Plaza in the 1980s. Brookside Boulevard, and just beyond it, the Plaza Tennis Center courts occupy the foreground at the bottom of the image. Residential buildings, including the Casa Loma, Hemingway, and Locarno apartment buildings, and the Alameda Plaza Hotel line Ward Parkway.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph, Cityscapes

Title: 400 Block of Nichols Road
Description: Photograph of Nichols Road between Pennsylvania and Broadway, looking east, in the late 1970s. The Plaza Bowl bowling alley, at the left edge of the image, opened in 1940 and closed in 1978. The building was partially demolished for the construction of a Saks department store, which opened in 1982. Other stores and shops line Nichols Road, including, at the far eastern end of the street, Halls department store, and Gateway Sporting Goods, at the right edge of the image, which closed in 1979.
Date: 1970~/1979~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Stan Kenton Concert at Brush Creek
Description: Photograph of Stan Kenton and his band in concert in Brush Creek in 1976. Concertgoers sit on grassy areas sloping up from the concrete creek bed. A portion of the Halls department store building, on the north side of Brush Creek, is visible in the background of the image.
Date: 1976-06-27
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Main Street and J. C. Nichols Parkway at 47th Street
Description: Photograph, looking south from the top of the Fountain View (later American Century Investments north tower), toward the intersection of 47th Street with J. C. Nichols Parkway (at right) and Main Street (at left). Streetcar tracks can be seen running behind commercial buildings in the foreground, southeast diagonally across Main Street. Nichols Fountain, in Mill Creek Park, is visible at the center of the image. Main Street and Brookside Boulevard were later realigned as part of a Brush Creek beautification and flood control project in the 1990s. South Plaza apartment and office buildings are visible in the background of the image, with Country Club Plaza commercial and residential buildings in the foreground right.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Plaza Art Fair
Description: Elevated view looking west of the 50th annual Plaza Art Fair on Nichols Road. Festival attendees and vendor booths can be seen. The Halls department store building can be seen on the left hand side of the image.
Date: 1981-09
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Plaza Art Fair
Description: Elevated view looking west of the 50th annual Plaza Art Fair on Nichols Road. Festival attendees and vendor booths can be seen. The Halls department store building can be seen on the left hand side of the image.
Date: 1981-09
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Plaza Art Fair
Description: Elevated view looking west of the 50th annual Plaza Art Fair on Nichols Road. Festival attendees and vendor booths can be seen. The Halls department store building can be seen on the left hand side of the image.
Date: 1981-09
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Halls Celebrates 40 Years on the Country Club Plaza
Description: The Halls store at 211 Nichols Road opened for business on October 4, 1965. Article reviews the store's departments and the building (''large squares of concrete embedded with pink quartz''). Period photographs included.
Date: 2005-10-01
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Makeover Outline Aired
Description: Article provides details of a planned makeover of the Halls Plaza building located at 211 Nichols Road following the department store's closing set for August 3, 2014. A representative from Highwoods Properties, the firm in charge of the project, is interviewed and explains how the large retail space will be renovated to accommodate six to eight retailers and one or two restaurants. It is explained that the site will be known as Plaza 211 when it reopens in 2015. A representative from Halls explains plans to merge their Country Club Plaza store with their Halls on Grand store in Crown Center.
Date: 2014-06-06
Object Type: Newspaper Article

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