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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: 9-23 East 34th Street
Description: Photograph of a section of the ground floor level of the 9-23 East 34th Street rowhouse building circa 1984, during a major renovation and rehabilitation project. This block of rowhouse apartments was constructed in 1888, prior to the area's annexation by Kansas City, and were once known as the Hyde Park Apartments. The majority of buildings on the block were razed in the 1980s and 1990s for additional parking lots and to expand the Foreign Language Academy's campus, including the neighboring white building at the right edge of this image.
Date: 1984~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Thomas Carlyle Apartments
Description: Photograph of the Thomas Carlyle Apartments building at 700 Ward Parkway circa 1990. Construction began on the building, designed by local architect Nelle E. Peters, in 1928. It belonged to a complex of buildings called the Poet Apartment Buildings, consisting of seven residential buildings named after literary figures including Carlyle, Mark Twain and Robert Louis Stevenson.
Date: 1990~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 9-23 East 34th Street
Description: Photograph of a section of the 9-23 East 34th Street rowhouse building circa 1984, during a major renovation and rehabilitation project. This block of rowhouse apartments was constructed in 1888, prior to the area's annexation by Kansas City, and were once known as the Hyde Park Apartments. The majority of buildings on the block were razed in the 1980s and 1990s for additional parking lots and to expand the Foreign Language Academy's campus.
Date: 1984~
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: Athenaeum Club
Description: Photograph of the Kansas City Athenaeum building at the corner of Campbell St. and Linwood Boulevard circa 1981. The building, designed by architect Samuel Tarbet and opened in 1914, serves was the home for the Kansas City Women's Athenaeum Club, which was founded in 1894 and focused on cultural programming for local women. With club membership dwindling, the building was sold to the Kansas City alumnae chapter of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority in 2015. The LaSalle apartment building, a 14-story building which served as apartments, a hotel, and senior housing and was demolished in 2001, can be seen to the east of the Athenaeum.
Date: 1981~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Ambassador Apartments
Description: Photograph of architectural detailing on the upper levels of the Ambassador Apartments at 435 Knickerbocker Place, circa 1981. The building, called Ambassador A, and its twin neighbor to the west, Ambassador B, were designed by local architect Nelle Peters and were built by the Ambassador Hotel to serve as overflow guest rooms in 1927 and were later used as apartments. Both buildings were razed in 2012.
Date: 1981~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 9-23 East 34th Street
Description: Photograph of a section of the 9-23 East 34th Street rowhouse building circa 1984, during a major renovation and rehabilitation project. This block of rowhouse apartments was constructed in 1888, prior to the area's annexation by Kansas City, and were once known as the Hyde Park Apartments. The majority of buildings on the block were razed in the 1980s and 1990s for additional parking lots and to expand the Foreign Language Academy's campus.
Date: 1984~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Athenaeum Club
Description: Photograph of the Kansas City Athenaeum building at the corner of Campbell St. and Linwood Boulevard circa 1981. The building, designed by architect Samuel Tarbet and opened in 1914, serves as the home for the Kansas City Women's Athenaeum Club, which was founded in 1894 and focused on cultural programming for local women. With club membership dwindling, the building was sold to the Kansas City alumnae chapter of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority in 2015. The LaSalle apartment building, seen in the photograph with the name Defenders' Townhouse, Inc., was a senior housing facility at 922 Linwood. The 14-story building also served as apartments and a hotel and was demolished in 2001.
Date: 1981~
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: 432-34 West 47th Street
Description: Photograph of an apartment building at 432-34 West 47th Street in the early 1980s. The buildings, along with all other buildings on the block bound by 47th Street, 46th Terrace, Pennsylvania Avenue, and Broadway, were demolished to make way for the Valencia Place office building project, the groundbreaking for which took place in November 1997.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Trinity United Methodist Church
Description: Photograph of the Trinity United Methodist Church at 620 East Armour Boulevard in the early 1980s. Designed by George Fuller Green, the church was built in 1918. Armour Park Apartments, to its west, can be seen at the left of the image.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 432-34 & 436-38 West 47th Street
Description: Photograph of apartment buildings at 432-34 & 436-38 West 47th Street in the early 1980s. The buildings, along with all other buildings on the block bound by 47th Street, 46th Terrace, Pennsylvania Avenue, and Broadway, were demolished to make way for the Valencia Place office building project, the groundbreaking for which took place in November 1997. The Seventh Church of Christ Scientist, on the northwest corner of 47th and Pennsylvania, can be seen at the left edge of the image.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 1116 East 9th Street
Description: Photograph circa 1980s, taken from the vantage point of the corner of 9th Street and Forest Avenue, looking northwest, of the Orville Apartments at 1116 E. 9th Street. Designed by architect Otis Goddard, these apartments were torn down at some point in the 1990s. The First Church of Christ Scientist, visible in the left side of the photograph, at 900 Forest Avenue, is still standing as of 2018, though the congregation no longer resides there. Located in the Paseo West neighborhood.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Central Presbyterian Church
Description: Photograph of the Central Presbyterian Church at the southeast corner of Armour and Campbell in the early 1980s. The congregation, founded in 1866, has resided at this location since 1921. The Wrennmoor apartment building, at 915 East Armour, can be seen standing to the east of the church. The building opened in 1927, but was condemned after multiple arson fires in 1988. It was demolished in 1995.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 403 Olive Street
Description: Photograph circa 1980s of a single family home (green building) at 403 Olive Street, which was demolished in 2002. To the north is 405 Olive Street, a single family home built in 1917. Next to it is 411 - 413 Olive Street, a four-unit apartment building, built in 1890. Located in the Pendleton Heights neighborhood.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Armour Plaza Apartments
Description: Photograph of the Armour Plaza Apartments building at the northwest corner of Armour and Tracy in the early 1980s. The building was designed by Defoe and Besecke and opened in 1925. It was condemned after a fire in 1985 and demolished in 1995.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 4904 Baltimore Avenue
Description: Photograph of a house at 4904 Baltimore Avenue in the 1980s. The Sulgrave Apartments building, at 121 West 48th Street, stands to the north. The house and others on its block were later demolished when Baltimore between 48th and 50th Streets was closed to construct a parking garage for the 4900 Main office building.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

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