Search results

Title: Plaza Lights
Description: Photograph of the Plaza Christmas lights, looking northeast across Ward Parkway and Brush Creek from the grounds of the Alameda Plaza Hotel in the 1980s. The hotel, later the Intercontinental, stands on the southwest corner of Ward Parkway and Wornall Road.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph, Cityscapes

Title: Saint Luke's Hospital
Description: Photograph of St. Luke's Hospital, looking southwest from J. C. Nichols Parkway south of 43rd Street, during the 1980s. Mill Creek Park is in the foreground of the image. St. Luke's relocated to the site in 1923, and the building pictured was constructed in the 1960s.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 4725 Wyandotte Street
Description: Photograph circa 1980s of a building at 4725 Wyandotte Street. The building was designed by Edward Tanner and served as the headquarters of the Postal Life ; Casualty Insurance Company. Located in the Plaza neighborhood.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Skelly Building
Description: Photograph circa 1980s of a building at 605 West 47th Street, called the Skelly Building, which housed offices for the Skelly Oil Company until the company merged with Getty Oil in 1977. The original part of the building was built in 1938; later additions were completed in 1954. Located in the Plaza neighborhood.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Plaza Buildings at 47th and Broadway
Description: Photograph of storefronts at the intersection of Broadway and 47th Street in the late 1980s. Ruback's jewelry store, at 340 W. 47th Street, and Dillard's department store, at 400 W. 47th, are pictured. Ruback's opened in the space in 1985 and closed in the early 1990s.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Nichols Road Courtyard
Description: Photograph of the Plaza Court of the Penguins courtyard at the northeast corner of Nichols Road and Pennsylvania Avenue in the 1980s. A Kansas City Trolley Corp. trolley, on Nichols Road, is pictured dropping a passenger off at a stop. The company operated free trolleys, circulating riders through Downtown, Crown Center, Westport, and the Plaza beginning in 1984 through the mid-1990s.
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: 700 Block of West 47th Street
Description: Photograph of the north side of the 700 block of West 47th Street, looking northeast from Summit Street, in the 1980s. The Plaza Court (formerly Haven Hill) Apartments building, at 700-08 West 47th, is visible at the center of the image. The Summit House apartment building is pictured at left. Both buildings demolished in 1989 for the construction of an office tower and hotel.
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: 410-12 West 47th Street
Description: Photograph of apartment buildings at 410-12 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~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 700 West 48th Street
Description: Photograph, circa 1980s, of an apartment building at the corner of 48th and Jefferson Street on the Country Club Plaza.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 4434-36 J. C. Nichols Parkway
Description: Photograph circa 1980s of an apartment building at 4434 - 36 JC Nichols Parkway. Built in 1922, the building possibly was designed by architect Nelle Peters and built by Buford G. Mitchell. Located in the Plaza neighborhood.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Plaza Tennis Courts
Description: Photograph of tennis courts at the Plaza Tennis Center, between 47th Street and Ward Parkway on the north and south, and Brookside Boulevard and Baltimore Avenue on the east and west, during the 1980s. The tennis complex was built in 1928. Looking southwest over the courts, numerous Ward Parkway apartment buildings can be seen, including the Casa Loma Apartments and Locarno Plaza Apartments.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Plaza Tennis Courts & Residential Buildings
Description: Photograph of the east side of the Plaza in the 1980s. Brookside Boulevard, and just beyond it, the Plaza Tennis Center courts occupy the foreground at the bottom of the image. Residential buildings, including the Casa Loma, Hemingway, and Locarno apartment buildings, and the Alameda Plaza Hotel line Ward Parkway.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph, Cityscapes

Title: 410 West 47th Street
Description: Photograph of an apartment building at 410 West 47th Street in the early 1980s. The building, 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~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Park Plaza Building
Description: Photograph circa 1980s of a building at 801 West 47th Street, called the Park Plaza Building. It was built in 1982.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 4400 Pensylvania Avenue
Description: Photograph of a building at 4400 Pennsylvania Avenue in the early 1980s. The first floor of the building was used for commercial and retail purposes, with an apartment on the upper floor.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Robert Browning Apartments
Description: Photograph of the Robert Browning apartment building, at 4809 Roanoke Parkway, circa 1988. The building was constructed in 1929, and is part the "Poet Apartments" cluster of buildings named for famous writers and designed by local architect Nelle E. Peters.
Date: 1988~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 200 Block of West 47th Street
Description: Photograph, looking east, of commercial buildings lining 47th Street circa 1987. The Giralda Tower, at 47th and Baltimore, is visible at the left edge of the image.
Date: 1987~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Nichols Road
Description: Photograph of stores and buildings lining the north side of Nichols Road, west of Broadway, circa 1987. Helzberg Diamonds, at 400 Nichols, is pictured in the foreground, with Country Club Bank, Brooks Brothers, and Saks Fifth Avenue to its west.
Date: 1987~
Object Type: Photograph

Search results

Pages

Pages

Refine Search

Object Type

Local Subject

TGM Subject

Date

Creator