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Title: Athenaeum Club
Description: File contains information about the Athenaeum Club, 108 years old in 2002. The Athenaeum Club Building stands at 900 E. Linwood Blvd.
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Athenaeum Club
Description: File containing a National Register of Historic Places nomination form for the Athenaeum Club, "the oldest [surviving] women's club in Kansas City, dating from 1894" with its own building constructed in 1915 at 900 East Linwood Boulevard. Biographical sketch (on page 6) of its architect, Samuel Tarbet (ca. 1871-1945), designer of "a wide variety of buildings" in Kansas City starting in 1906 including "the Olathe, Kansas, City Hall in 1910; the Robert Sutherland residence at 410 Gladstone in 1913; and the Graphic Arts Building at 934 Wyandotte in 1917."
Object Type: Report

Title: 8th Annual Inaugural Dinner Dance
Description: View of the 8th annual Inaugural Dinner Dance held by the South Central Business Association at the Kansas City Athenaeum.
Date: 1928
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Sanborn Map, Kansas City, Vol. 4, 1909-1950, Page p465
Description: A portion of Kansas City from E. 31st Street south to E. 32nd Street Terrace and from Campbell Street east to Forest Avenue, showing buildings, streets, and additions. Large numbers at edges of page refer to page with adjoining area.
Date: 1909/1950
Object Type: Map

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: 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: 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: 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: SC160 Kansas City Athenaeum Collection Finding Aid
Description: Founded in 1894 through a collaboration of existing women’s clubs, the Kansas City Athenaeum is one of the oldest women’s organizations in the area. The Kansas City Athenaeum Collection contains minutes, yearbooks, scrapbooks, photographs, operational and financial records, clubhouse information and building plans, and ephemera documenting the history of the club.
Date: 1894/2012
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: Personal Pilgrimage
Description: Biographical article on Kansas City accountant, millionaire, and philanthropist James J. Lynn. Born in Louisiana in 1892, Lynn made his way to Kansas City in 1909 and subsequently took accounting jobs with the Missouri Pacific Railroad, Bell Telephone Company, and the U. S. Epperson Underwriting Company. Lynn bought Epperson Underwriting in 1921, renaming it the Lynn Underwriting Company, and later founded Universal Underwriters. In 1932, he became a member of the Self-Realization Fellowship (SRF), following the guru Paramahansa Yogananda - later becoming a renowned guru himself under the name Rajarsi Janakananda. Members of the SRF make pilgramages to Kansas City to visit locations associated with Lynn and his work.
Date: 2014-04-04
Object Type: Newspaper Article

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