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Title: Community Christian Church
Description: View looking northeast of Community Christian Church at 4601 Main Street.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Meyer Building
Description: Photograph of the Meyer Building at 3923-25 Main Street, circa 1982, which was designed by architect Robert F. Gornall and built in 1916. Midwest Cyclery is the building's current ground-floor tenant. A Christian Science Reading Room, at 3921 Main, stands to its left, and a Salvation Army thrift store, in the former Warwick Theater, is to its right.
Date: 1982~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Meyer Building
Description: Photograph of the Meyer Building at 3923-25 Main Street, circa 1982, which was designed by architect Robert F. Gornall and built in 1916. A thrift shop is the building's ground-floor tenant at the time of the photo. A Christian Science Reading Room, at 3921 Main, stands to its left, and a Salvation Army thrift store, in the former Warwick Theater, is to its right.
Date: 1982~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Meyer Building
Description: Photograph of the Meyer Building at 3923-25 Main Street, circa 1982, which was designed by architect Robert F. Gornall and built in 1916. Midwest Cyclery is the building's current ground-floor tenant. A Christian Science Reading Room, at 3921 Main, stands to its left, and a Salvation Army thrift store, in the former Warwick Theater, is to its right.
Date: 1982~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 4400 Warwick Boulevard
Description: Photograph of the stucco house at 4400 Warwick Boulevard in the early 1980s. The house, originally known as the James G. Strean Residence after an early resident, was purchased by the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and incorporated into the construction of their new Central Congregation facilities. The buildings were demolished in 1993 to provide parking for the new Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 4408 Warwick Boulevard
Description: Photograph of the house at 4408 Warwick Boulevard in the early 1980s. The house, originally known as the Stanley P. Christopher Residence after an early resident, was purchased by the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and incorporated into the construction of their new Central Congregation facilities. The buildings were demolished in 1993 to provide parking for the new Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Southwell Building
Description: Photograph of the Southwell Building at the intersection of Main Street and Westport Road, in the late 1970s. The building was designed by architects McKecknie and Trask and opened in 1929. A real estate sign hangs in the window of the storefront at 3935 Main, which was recently occupied by Howard E. Thruman Institutional Church, and a door to the second-floor Harling's Upstairs Bar and Grill can be seen at the right of the image. Moten's Shoe Repair occupies the neighboring building to the north.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Hilton Plaza Hotel and Southmoreland Neighborhood
Description: Photograph, looking east from the top of the Fountain View (later American Century Investments north tower), of the Hilton Plaza Hotel at 1 East 45th Street circa 1987. To the east across Walnut Street, the All Souls Unitarian Church is pictured at the left edge of the image, and the Simpson House, at 4509 Walnut, and the Montreux apartments stand to the south. The Oak Hall and Sophian Plaza apartment buildings are also pictured at right, and the Nelson Art Gallery can be seen to the east.
Date: 1987~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Christian Science Reading Room
Description: Photograph of the Christian Science Reading Room at 3921 Main Street, circa 1982, in a building constructed in 1921. The vacant lot to its left is the site of the former Werby Building, demolished in 1979, and part of the Meyer Building can be seen to its right.
Date: 1982~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Dorothy's Swap-Shop and Moten's Shoe Repair
Description: Photograph of Dorothy's Swap-Shop at 3931 Main, and Moten's Shoe Repair at 3933 Main, circa 1983. The facades of both buildings were altered from their original designs in 1946. A storefront church can be seen in the neighboring Southwell Building.
Date: 1983~
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: J. C. Nichols Parkway and Main Street through Midtown
Description: Photograph looking north from the top of the Fountain View (later American Century Investments north tower) along J. C. Nichols Parkway/Broadway Boulevard (at left) and Main Street (at right) circa 1987. The Embassy Suites hotel, at at 220 West 43rd Street, is at left, with the streetcar 43rd Street viaduct cross over the intersection of 43rd Street and J. C. Nichols Parkway. Commercial and residential buildings, including the H&R Block headquarters in the lower right corner, line both streets. The downtown skyline can be seen in the background of the image.
Date: 1987~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 3901-3915 Main Street
Description: Photograph of demolition of buildings in the early 1980s at 3901 - 3915 Main Street, including the Werby Building on the southeast corner at the intersection of 39th and Main Streets. The spire of the Calvary Baptist Church at 3921 Baltimore can be seen in the background.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Northeast Corner of 47th and Main
Description: Photograph of the northeast corner of 47th and Main Streets circa 1980. Seen from near the southeast corner of the intersection, the rear of the Community Christian Church can be seen across 47th Street and a Country Club Plaza employee parking lot. The Parkway Towers apartment building can be seen in the background at left, and the Ponce de Leon Apartments in the background at right.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Southmoreland and Plaza Buildings
Description: Photograph, looking southeast from the top of the Fountain View (later American Century Investments north tower), across 47th Street toward the UMKC campus circa 1987. The Hilton Plaza Inn, at 1 West 45th, occupies the bottom left corner of the image, and numerous residential buildings are pictured lining 47th Street. Streetcar tracks can be seen running behind commercial buildings in the foreground, south diagonally across Main Street, before running alongside Brookside Boulevard south of Brush Creek. Main Street and Brookside Boulevard were later realigned as part of a Brush Creek beautification and flood control project in the 1990s.
Date: 1987~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Community Christian Church
Description: Photograph of the Community Christian Church at 4601 Main Street circa 1980. The church was designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright and dedicated in 1942.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: J. C. Nichols Parkway and Main Street through Midtown
Description: Photograph looking northwest from the top of the Fountain View building (later American Century north tower) along J. C. Nichols Parkway/Broadway Boulevard from roughly 44th Street circa 1987. Buildings on the St. Luke's Hospital campus can be seen at the left edge of the image, and an Embassy Suites Hotel at 220 West 43rd Street at the center of the photo. Buildings in Westport, along Armour Boulevard, and Downtown can be seen in the background of the image. Baltimore Avenue runs north/south at the right edge of the image.
Date: 1987~
Object Type: Photograph

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