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Title: Municipal Auditorium
Description: Photograph of Municipal Auditorium. A marquee in front advertises an August 31, 1991 Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers concert. The building, on the block bound by 13th, 14th, Wyandotte and Central Streets, was built in the early 1930s and dedicated on December 1, 1935. The Americana Hotel, at 1301 Wyandotte, can be seen in the background of the image.
Date: 1991
Object Type: Photograph

Title: West Side of the Country Club Plaza
Description: Photograph of the west side of Country Club Plaza area, looking southwest, in 1987. The Neptune Apartments building can be seen under construction in the foreground left, and the Saks department store and Seville Square shopping center, on Nichols Road, and Skelly building, on 49th Street, occupy the center of the photograph. The Winston Churchill Apartments and Poet Apartments are pictured in the background, west of Jefferson Street.
Date: 1987
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Nelson Art Gallery South Lawn
Description: Photograph, looking south from the south entrance of the Nelson Art Gallery, circa 1986. The view overlooks the Nelson's south lawn, across 47th Street, and across Theis Park and the Volker Memorial Fountain.
Date: 1986
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Knickerbocker North Apartments
Description: Photograph of the Knickerbocker Apartments, on the north side of Knickerbocker Place at 530 Knickerbocker Place, during their demolition. The north apartments were razed beginning in late August, 1982, to make room for a Kansas City Life Insurance Company expansion project. The twin building on the south side of the street was still standing as of 2018. Both were built circa 1910 and designed by architect Leon Grant Middaugh. The tower visible at the top left of the photograph stands atop another Kansas City Life building, just north of the apartments.
Date: 1982
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Knickerbocker North Apartments
Description: Photograph of the Knickerbocker Apartments, on the north side of Knickerbocker Place at 500-30 Knickerbocker Place, during their demolition. The north apartments were razed beginning in late August 1982 to make room for a Kansas City Life Insurance Company expansion project. The twin building on the south side of the street was still standing as of 2018. Both were built circa 1910 and designed by architect Leon Grant Middaugh. The tower visible at the top left of the photograph stands atop another Kansas City Life building, just north of the apartments.
Date: 1982
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Knickerbocker North Apartments
Description: Photograph of the doorway of 516 Knickerbocker Place, part of the Knickerbocker Apartments on the north side of Knickerbocker Place, circa 1981. The block of apartments were razed in 1982 for a Kansas City Life Insurance Company expansion project. The twin building on the south side of the street was still standing as of 2018. Both were built circa 1910 and designed by architect Leon Grant Middaugh.
Date: 1982
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Rockhill Tennis Club
Description: Photograph of the property at 4520 Kenwood Avenue, circa 1981, looking north. The house, adjacent to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, was initially known as "Stonehouse," the home of William Rockhill Nelson's daughter Laura and her husband Irving Kirkwood upon their 1910 marriage. It was later purchased by local lumber company executive DeVere Dierks, before serving as the home of the Rockhill Tennis Club from 1955 to 2010.
Date: 1981
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: 400 Block of Nichols Road
Description: Photograph of Nichols Road between Pennsylvania and Broadway, looking east, in 1977. Embassy movie theater is pictured, advertising the movie "Julia" on the marquee. The theater closed in 1981. The Plaza Bowl bowling alley, at the left edge of the image, opened in 1940 and closed in 1978. The buildings were partially demolished for the construction of a Saks department store, which opened in 1982.
Date: 1977
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: 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: 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 Locarno Apartments building, on the south side of Brush Creek, is visible in the background of the image.
Date: 1976-06-27
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Landmarks Commission 1947 Bond Program Finding Aid
Description: This collection consists of a booklet with photographs created to document public improvements of the 1947 Bond Program proposed by a Citizens Bond Committee. The Citizens Bond Committee was founded in 1946 by the Citizens Regional Planning Council, a group made up of officials from Kansas City, MO; North Kansas City; Independence; and Kansas City, KS.
Date: 1947
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: 3669 Madison Avenue
Description: Photograph of a house at 3669 Madison Avenue, circa 1981.
Date: 1981~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 3444 Campbell Street
Description: Photograph of a single family home at 3444 Campbell Street, built in 1899. Placed on the Kansas City Register of Historic Places in 1983 as part of the North Hyde Park Historic District.
Date: 1983~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 3406 Pennsylvania Avenue
Description: Photograph of a house located at 3406 Pennsylvania Avenue circa 1981. The house has since been demolished, along with many other single-family homes on that block.
Date: 1981~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Unidentified West Plaza Apartment Building
Description: Photograph of an unidentified apartment building circa 1986. The Plaza West office building, at 4600 Madison Avenue, can be seen in in the upper left edge of the image.
Date: 1986~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Knickerbocker Apartments demolition
Description: Photograph circa 1982 documenting the demolition of 500 Knickerbocker Place, part of the Knickerbocker Apartments on the north side of Knickerbocker Place. The block of apartments were razed in 1982 for a Kansas City Life Insurance Company expansion project. The twin building on the south side of the street was still standing as of 2018. Both were built circa 1910 and designed by architect Leon Grant Middaugh. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.
Date: 1982~
Object Type: Photograph

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: 1813-1823 West 39th Street
Description: Photograph of buildings spanning 1813-1823 West 39th Street, circa 1990. Cafe Allegro, at 1815 W. 39th, and Jimmy's Jigger bar, at the southwest corner of 39th and State Line Road, are among the businesses pictured. These commercial buildings, and the other on 39th Street between Bell and State Line, were dubbed Jamestown Square in the late 1980s, and were subject to redevelopment plans for the buildings and surrounding streetscape and parking lots. University of Kansas Medical Center buildings are visible in the background of the image.
Date: 1990~
Object Type: Photograph

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