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Title: 48th Street Apartments
Description: Photograph of apartment buildings on the south side of 48th Street, looking west to Belleview Avenue, circa 1988. The buildings were later demolished for a highrise office development.
Date: 1988~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Balcony and Neptune Buildings
Description: Photograph of the commercial Balcony Building at Broadway and Wornall, and the Neptune Apartments building at 46th Terrace and Broadway, circa 1987. The Neptune building is pictured while still under construction.
Date: 1987~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 546 Olive Street
Description: Photograph circa 1980s looking north toward Elma Street, capturing the block of stores and homes on the west side of the street. On the left is 546 Olive Street, a building which has housed several businesses, including a beauty shop. It is also an apartment home, with a bedroom and garage. Next to that building is 540 - 538 Olive Street, a two-story duplex. To the north of that is a single family home at 536 Olive Street, built in 1890. Next to that is a two-story duplex which was demolished sometime after the photo was taken. The next visible home, to the north, is 526 Olive Street, built in 1890. Located in the Pendleton Heights neighborhood.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Walnut Street Shops
Description: Photograph of the Walnut Street Shops, 12-26 East 39th Street, with windows boarded up prior to a renovation project in 1983-84. The Hyde Park Building can also be seen at the left of the image, and the Netherlands Hotel building can be seen in the background. The Netherlands was soon to undergo its own renovation and be redubbed "Hawthorne Plaza."
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 4632 Wyandotte Street
Description: Photograph of a retail strip at the intersection of Wornall Road and Wyandotte Street circa 1980. Renner's Shoe Repair is among the businesses pictured. Other Plaza hotels and apartment buildings can be seen in the background of the image.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Mabry Hall
Description: Photograph of the Mabry Hall building at 4112-14 Pennsylvania Avenue, circa 1980. At the time of the photo, the building was owned by Ace Dickinson, who operated Ace's Rock Shop and Museum on the ground floor. The building is arguably the oldest extant commercial building in Kansas City, with some claiming it was constructed in 1843. Other sources suggest a date closer to 1850.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 3245-49 Main Street
Description: Photograph of a building at 3245-3249 Main, on the northeast corner of Main Street and Warner Plaza, circa 1981. A sign reading "The Right Drink at the Right Price" hangs on Milton's Tap Room jazz club at 3241 Main and can be seen on the adjacent building at the left of the image, and a section of the Warner Plaza apartments are visible at the right. A twin building stood across Warner Plaza to the south. The area, south of Linwood Boulevard to 34th Street, between Main and Gillham, was deemed blighted and ridden with crime in drugs in the late 1980s, and these buildings, as well as other homes, apartments, and commercial buildings, were demolished in the early and mid-'90s as part of the so-called "Glover Plan" to be replaced by the Midtown Marketplace development, a large commercial development anchored by big box retailers Home Depot and Costco.
Date: 1981~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 39th & Main Streets
Description: Photograph of the north side of the 39th and Main Street intersection circa 1983. The Hyde Park Building, on the northeast corner of the intersection, is undergoing renovations. The Price Candy Company Building, at 2 West 39th Street, has New Earth Books and Records as a ground floor tenant. Foolkiller Theater, a longtime tenant and building owner, also occupies the building. The Netherlands Hotel apartment building is visible in the background of the image.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Nichols Road
Description: Photograph, looking northeast from an elevated position at Nichols and Central, of Nichols Road storefronts and other buildings circa 1987. N. Valentino and Strauss-Peyton occupy storefronts on the north side of Nichols, and the Giralda Tower is visible at right. The Fountain View building (later American Century Investments north tower), One Main Plaza, Marriott Hotel, and Hilton Plaza Inn, all near the intersection of 45th and Main Streets, are visible in the background of the image.
Date: 1987~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Intersection of 47th and Wyandotte Streets
Description: Photograph, looking northwest from Giralda Tower, of the intersection of 47th and Wyandotte Streets in 1987. A Commerce Bank branch, at 118 West 47th, is pictured, with additional businesses on surrounding corners. The Neptune Apartments building can be seen under construction in the center background, with additional residential and office buildings in view further to the west.
Date: 1987~
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: 4428-4440 Saint John Avenue
Description: Photograph circa 1980s of a multi-use building - apartments on the second floor, businesses on the first floor - at 4428-4440 Saint John Avenue, built in the early 20th century.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 4500 Block of Main Street
Description: Photograph of the Whitton Manor building, from 4536 to 4558 Main Street, in the late 1970s. The building was home to assorted retail outlets, including a record store and sewing machine repair shop, as well as offices on the second floor. The Sarachon Hooley retail/office building stands to its north, at 4526-32 Main, and the Hillcrest Apartments building can be seen at 4520-24 Main. The latter two buildings were later demolished for the construction of the Fountain View (later American Century) office towers circa 1992.
Date: 1970~/1979~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 922 East 48th Street
Description: Photograph of buildings at the northwest corner of the intersection of 48th and Harrison in the early 1980s. The Art Research Center, an arts group dating to 1766, made the corner space at 922 East 48th Street its headquarters in 1973. The block is part of a large area, bound roughly by 47th Street, Brush Creek, Rockhill Road, and Troost Avenue, that was demolished and redeveloped into the Kauffman Foundation, its Kauffman Legacy Park, and the Anita Gorman Conservation Center.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Quality Hill
Description: Aeriel view photograph looking northeast over the block bound by 10th and 11th Streets on the north and south, Pennsylvania Avenue on the west, and Washington on the east. Neighboring blocks are also pictured. Pictured buildings include the Virginia Hotel building at 1080 Washington, the Jarboe Hotel building at 501 West 10th, and the Musicians Building at at 1021 (later 1051) Washington.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph, Cityscapes

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