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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: Pomona Court and Woolf Brothers
Description: Photograph of a fountain in the Pomona Courtyard at the northeast corner of Broadway Boulevard and Ward Parkway, circa 1987.
Date: 1987~
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: Chandler Court
Description: Photograph of the Chandler Courtyard, at the southeast corner of 47th and Wyandotte Streets, circa 1980. The courtyard features a large fountain, alternately known as the Pan or Bacchus Fountain. The building adjacent to the courtyard was home to clothing store Swanson's.
Date: 1980~
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: Unidentified House
Description: Photograph of an unidentified house, likely in the Crestwood neighborhood, in the 1980s.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Seville Square
Description: Photograph of the Seville Square shopping center, on the northwest corner of Nichols Road and Pennsylvania Avenue, in the late 1970s. The indoor shopping center included retail shops, restaurants, and other businesses. Designed by architect Clarence Kivett, Seville Square was renovated in the late 1970s from the Sears department store that stood on the site. Columbia Union National Bank can be seen in the background at left, facing Jefferson Street.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 300 Nichols Road
Description: Photograph circa 1980s of Putsch's Cafeteria at 300 Nichols Road/4640 Wornall Road in the Country Club Plaza Shopping District. Opened sometime in the 1950s by Jud and Virginia Putsch, Putsch's Cafeteria was a popular, successful restaurant. Located in the Plaza neighborhood.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Plaza Time Building
Description: Photograph of the Plaza Time Building on Broadway Boulevard between Nichols Road and Ward Parkway in the early 1980s. Williams-Sonoma and Jack Henry's Club Shop are among the ground floor retail tenants of this building, constructed in 1946.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 410-12 West 47th Street
Description: Photograph of a vacant lot at 410-12 West 47th Street in the early 1980s. The site was formerly occupied by two apartment buildings, which were demolished along with other buildings on the block 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: 406 West 46th Terrace
Description: Photograph of an apartment building at 406 West 46th Terrace in the early 1980s. The building, along with neighboring apartment buildings on the north side of 46th Terrace, 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: 412 & 22 West 47th Street
Description: Photograph of apartment buildings at 412 & 422 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: 4442 J. C. Nichols Parkway
Description: Photograph circa 1980s of an apartment building at 4442 JC Nichols Parkway. It was demolished sometime before 2006, when new condominiums were constructed on the same parcel. Located in the Plaza neighborhood.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Plaza Center Building
Description: Photograph of the Plaza Center (formerly John Hancock) office building on 47th Street between Madison and Summit circa 1980. The building opened in 1961 and was designed by architecture firm Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. John Hancock Life Insurance Company was an original tenant.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 4632 Wyandotte Street
Description: Photograph of a retail strip at the intersection of Wornall Road and Wyandotte Street circa 1980. Renner's Shoe Repair is among the businesses pictured. Other Plaza hotels and apartment buildings can be seen in the background of the image.
Date: 1980~
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: 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: Halls Department Store on Nichols Road
Description: Photograph of the Halls department store Plaza location, looking west down Nichols Road from Wyandotte Street, circa 1980. Other Plaza stores and buildings are visible in the background of the image.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Mill Creek Building
Description: Photograph of the Mill Creek Building at 4634 J. C. Nichols Parkway, circa 1982. Jenkins Music Company and Safety Federal Savings are current tenants. Construction began in 1922 and opened in 1923, this building was the first of J. C. Nichols' Country Club Plaza buildings, and was initially called the Suydam Building. At the far right of the image, construction is taking place on the dome and tower of a neighboring building.
Date: 1982~
Object Type: Photograph

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