Kansas City Landmarks Slide Collection

Title: 1320 West 12th Street
Description: Photograph of 12th Street, looking west from 1320 West 12th Street to Liberty Street, in the early 1980s. The Kansas City Bolt, Nut & Screw Company spans a large segment of the block east of Hickory Street. Buildings to its east were demolished after being destroyed by a 1983 fire.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Manor Bakery
Description: Photograph of the rear of the Manor Bakery complex at 4020-50 Pennsylvania Avenue in the early 1980s, from Mill Street looking northwest. A union striker holds a sign reading "Fogel Anderson On Strike" for the Laborers Local Union 264, in front of a Fogel Anderson Construction trailer. The buildings served as the bakery and distribution center for Manor Bakery beginning in 1925. Multiple mergers resulted in the Manor label becoming part of Colonial Bakery, which continued to operate in the space through 1986, when the buildings were included in a major mixed-use redevelopment project that included the construction of the Manor Square building on the southwest corner of the block.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Manor Bakery
Description: Photograph of the northwest end of the Manor Bakery complex at 4020-50 Pennsylvania Avenue in the early 1980s, looking southwest. Delivery trucks and loading doors can be seen at the rear of the building. The buildings served as the bakery and distribution center for Manor Bakery beginning in 1925. Multiple mergers resulted in the Manor label becoming part of Colonial Bakery, which continued to operate in the space through 1986, when the buildings were included in a major mixed-use redevelopment project that included the construction of the Manor Square building on the southwest corner of the block.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Vitagraph Film Exchange Building
Description: Photograph of the Vitagraph Film Exchange building at the southeast corner of 17th and Wyandotte in the early 1980s. Built in 1930 by Warner Brothers, the building was part of Kansas City's Film Row, an area focused on the film distribution industry. Warner Brothers continued to occupy the building into the 1970s, but an "Office Space for Lease" sign is posted at the time of the photograph.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Ace Caster and Equipment, Inc.
Description: Photograph of a building at 3240 Main circa 1981. The building was designed by Kansas City architect Louis Curtiss in 1906, and at the time of the photo housed Ace Caster & Equipment, Inc. Part of the ABC Storage & Van Company building can be seen at the left of the photo, at 3244 Main.
Date: 1981~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Ace Caster and Equipment, Inc.
Description: Photograph of a building at 3240 Main circa 1981. The building was designed by Kansas City architect Louis Curtiss in 1906, and at the time of the photo housed Ace Caster & Equipment, Inc. Part of the ABC Storage & Van Company building can be seen at the left of the photo, at 3244 Main. Brown's Chicken, a national restaurant chain, is visible at the far right of the photograph at 3214 Main.
Date: 1981~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 3825-3849 Main Street
Description: Photograph of the 3800 block of Main Street, including the Normandy Building at 3825-37 Main, the Monarch Storage Warehouse at 3829 Main, and the Netherlands Hotel and apartment building at 3835 Main, circa 1982. The Monarch Building was designed in 1921 by architect C. B. Sloan, and the metal facade on the lower two levels was added in 1963. The building housed the American White Goods Company at the time of the photograph.The 3835 Main building opened as the Tocama Apartments in 1928 and designed by architect Robert F. Gornall, and was in 1931 was renamed the Netherlands Hotel, continuing to serve as an apartment building and hotel. It was vacant at the time of this photograph after the city deemed it a dangerous building. Shortly thereafter, it was renovated and renamed the Hawthorne Plaza Apartments. A section of the boarded-up Hyde Park Building is also visible at the right edge of the photograph.
Date: 1982~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Union Avenue
Description: Photograph of Union Avenue looking east from Mulberry Street toward Santa Fe Street in the early 1980s. The building at far left was later demolished. CFM Distributors, Inc., stands in the Brokers Building on the northeast corner of Union and Santa Fe.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: John Deere Company
Description: Photograph of the former John Deere Plow Company Building on Hickory Street, between 13th Street and 13th Terrace, in the 1980s. The Columbian Steel Tank Building stands a block to the north. The 12th Street Bridge can be seen in the background.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Manor Bakery
Description: Photograph of the Manor Bakery complex at 4050 Pennsylvania Avenue in the early 1980s, looking southeast from Pennsylvania. The buildings served as the bakery and distribution center for Manor Bakery beginning in 1925. Multiple mergers resulted in the Manor label becoming part of Colonial Bakery, which continued to operate in the space through 1986, when the buildings were included in a major mixed-use redevelopment project that included the construction of the Manor Square building on the southwest corner of the block.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Manor Bakery
Description: Photograph of the rear of the Manor Bakery complex at 4020-50 Pennsylvania Avenue in the early 1980s, from Mill Street looking southeast. The buildings served as the bakery and distribution center for Manor Bakery beginning in 1925. Multiple mergers resulted in the Manor label becoming part of Colonial Bakery, which continued to operate in the space through 1986, when the buildings were included in a major mixed-use redevelopment project that included the construction of the Manor Square building on the southwest corner of the block.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 2100 Harrison Street
Description: Photograph of a commercial building at the southeast corner of 21st and Harrison. The building was later demolished to make way for the construction of 71 Highway/Bruce R. Watkins Drive in the 1990s.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Manor Bakery
Description: Photograph of a Colonial Bakery truck at the loading docks of the Manor Bakery building at 4020-50 Pennsylvania Avenue in the early 1980s, looking southwest from Mill Street. The buildings served as the bakery and distribution center for Manor Bakery beginning in 1925. Multiple mergers resulted in the Manor label becoming part of Colonial Bakery, which continued to operate in the space through 1986, when the buildings were included in a major mixed-use redevelopment project that included the construction of the Manor Square building on the southwest corner of the block.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Manor Bakery
Description: Photograph of a Colonial Bakery truck at the loading docks on the southeast side of the Manor Bakery building at 4020-50 Pennsylvania Avenue in the early 1980s. The buildings served as the bakery and distribution center for Manor Bakery beginning in 1925. Multiple mergers resulted in the Manor label becoming part of Colonial Bakery, which continued to operate in the space through 1986, when the buildings were included in a major mixed-use redevelopment project that included the construction of the Manor Square building on the southwest corner of the block.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Manor Bakery
Description: Photograph of the Manor Bakery complex at 4020-50 Pennsylvania Avenue in the early 1980s, looking northwest down Pennsylvania. The buildings served as the bakery and distribution center for Manor Bakery beginning in 1925. Multiple mergers resulted in the Manor label becoming part of Colonial Bakery, which continued to operate in the space through 1986, when the buildings were included in a major mixed-use redevelopment project that included the construction of the Manor Square building on the southwest corner of the block.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Tension Envelope Company
Description: Photograph of the Tension Envelope Company building at the southwest corner of 19th and Campbell Streets in the early 1980s. The building became the headquarters, warehouse, and factory for Berkowitz Envelope Company, later Tension Envelope Company, in the 1920s.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Belmont Boulevard and Chouteau Trafficway
Description: Photograph circa 1980s of the back of a building that sits at the corner of North Belmont Boulevard and Chouteau Trafficway. The address of the building is 6200 St John Avenue. In 1940, the building housed Montgomery Ward Distribution Center. Located in the Indian Mound neighborhood.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 1308 West 11th Street
Description: Photograph from 1980s of an industrial building in the West Bottoms for Kansas City Pump Company. Larger portion of the building to the east, with the name "Kansas City Pump Co." is no longer standing; it was demolished in the late 1990s. As of 2018, the two-story portion houses an interior design and fabric upholstery store.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Tension Envelopes Company
Description: Photograph of the Tension Envelope Company building at the southwest corner of 19th and Campbell Streets in the early 1980s. The building became the headquarters, warehouse, and factory for Berkowitz Envelope Company, later Tension Envelope Company, in the 1920s.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Manor Bakery
Description: Photograph of Colonial Bakery store at the northwest end of the Manor Bakery complex at 4020-50 Pennsylvania Avenue in the early 1980s. Delivery trucks and gas pumps can be seen at the rear of the store. The buildings served as the bakery and distribution center for Manor Bakery beginning in 1925. Multiple mergers resulted in the Manor label becoming part of Colonial Bakery, which continued to operate in the space through 1986, when the buildings were included in a major mixed-use redevelopment project that included the construction of the Manor Square building on the southwest corner of the block.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

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