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Title: View Looking East of the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Building
Description: View facing east from Main Street showing the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company Building in Crown Center at some point near its completion in 1985. The older and taller headquarters for the company can be seen immediately to the right of the new structure. The Hyatt Regency Hotel can be seen behind the two buildings.
Date: 1985~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Baltimore Avenue through the Plaza
Description: Photograph looking north on Baltimore Avenue, just north of Ward Parkway, circa 1987. The Fountain View building (later American Century Investments north tower) is visible in the center of the image, with the One Main Plaza office building and Marriott Hotel, on Main Street, visible at right.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Plaza Aerial View
Description: Aerial photograph looking west along 47th Street in the 1980s, Main Street west to Jarboe Street. The Nelson-Atkins Museum's grounds can be seen in the lower right, with Westwood, Kansas, at the top edge. Brush Creek is visible at the left of the image, with Plaza commercial and residential buildings filling the bulk of the picture.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph, Cityscapes

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: Neptune Apartments
Description: Photograph of the Neptune Apartments building, looking north east from Broadway Boulevard, at 333 West 46th Terrace circa 1987. The Neptune was built and opened in 1987. The commercial Balcony Building stands to its south on 47th Street, with additional Plaza retail buildings and parking lots photographed on the 4700 block of Broadway. The Fountain View (later American Century Investments north tower) office building and Marriott Hotel can be seen in the background at right.
Date: 1987~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Main Street Buildings and Southmoreland
Description: Photograph, looking east from the top of the Fountain View (later American Century Investments north tower), circa 1987. One Main Plaza office building occupies the left side of the image, and the Marriott Hotel on the right. The Southmoreland neighborhood and Kansas City Art Institute campus are visible between the buildings.
Date: 1987~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Main Street, South Plaza
Description: Photograph looking north on Main Street through the South Plaza circa 1987. Country Club Bank is pictured at left, at 1 Ward Parkway. Fountain View (later the American Century Investments north tower) is pictured in the background, at 45th and Main. The Plaza Branch of the Kansas City Public Library is pictured at right.
Date: 1987~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: One Main Plaza and Marriott Hotel
Description: Photograph, looking east from the top of the Fountain View (later American Century Investments north tower), of the One Main Plaza office building at 4435 Main and the Marriott Hotel at 4445 Main Street circa 1987. Buildings on the Kansas City Art Institute campus can be seen to the east across Warwick Boulevard.
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: Plaza Aerial View
Description: Aerial photograph looking west along 47th Street in the 1980s, with the intersection of 47th and Main Streets near the center of the image. The Nelson-Atkins Museum's grounds can be seen in the lower right, with Westwood, Kansas, at the top edge. Brush Creek is visible at the left of the image, with Plaza-area commercial and residential buildings filling the bulk of the image.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph, Cityscapes

Title: 4300 and 4400 Block of Main Street
Description: Photograph, looking northeast from the top of the Fountain View (later American Century Investments north tower), of the east side of the 4300 and 4400 blocks of Main Street in the late 1980s. The One Main Plaza office building at 4435 Main Street occupies the lower right corner. A QuikTrip convenience store and Best Western hotel stand to its north on Main Street, and the Southmoreland neighborhood stretches to the north and east. Tall residential and office buildings line Armour Boulevard in the background of the image.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Plaza Aerial View
Description: Aerial photograph looking west through the Plaza in the 1980s, with 47th Street running along the right edge of the image and Brush Creek running through the middle. The image spans from roughly McGee Street west to State Line Road. Plaza-area commercial and residential buildings filling the bulk of the image.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph, Cityscapes

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: 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: H&R Block Headquarters
Description: Photograph, taken from the top of the Marriott Hotel at 45th and Main, looking northwest circa 1987. The H&R Block headquarters building is seen at the center of the image, on the west side of Main, with the Embassy Suites Hotel visible to the northwest. Broadway Boulevard can be seen bending west through Westport in the background. The One Main Plaza office building can be seen at the right edge of the image.
Date: 1987~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Plaza Area Main Street Buildings
Description: Photograph looking north across Brush Creek and Ward Parkway of buildings along Main Street circa 1987. Fountain View (later American Century Investments north tower), at 4500 Main Street, One Main Plaza at 4435 Main, and the Marriott Hotel, at 4445 Main, are among the buildings pictured. The Plaza's Giralda Tower can be seen at the left side of the image.
Date: 1987~
Object Type: Photograph

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