Kansas City Landmarks Slide Collection

Photograph of a residence at 110 Brooklyn Avenue in the early 1980s. The house was
built in 1886 at a cost of $12,000, and was later demolished along with most other buildings
on the block for retail and multi-family residential redevelopment.

Photograph circa 1980s of a single family home at 1100 E. 8th Street, built in 1900.
Located in the Paseo West neighborhood.

Photograph circa 1980s of a row of single family homes. As of 2018, the homes at
addresses 1100, 1102, 1104 E. 8th Street are still standing. At some point in the 1990s, 1106
E 8th Street and the smaller building to the far east in the photograph were demolished. These
homes were built in 1900.

Photograph of apartment buildings on Armour Boulevard between Troost and Forest in the
early 1980s. The Armour Apartments building, furthest left, is at 1100-08 E. Armour Boulevard.
It was designed by architect John McKecknie and built in 1905, and was demolished in 1988. The
Chalfonte Flats building, at 1110-12 E. Armour, stands in the middle of the block, was
designed by Matt O'Connell and built in 1909. The Juliet Apartments, in the foreground of the
image, stand at 1114-16 E. Armour, were also designed by John McKecknie and built in 1907. The
Juliet building has a "For Sale" sign in front of it at the time of the
photograph.

Photograph of apartment buildings on Armour Boulevard between Troost and Forest in the
early 1980s. The Armour Apartments building, furthest left, is at 1100-08 E. Armour Boulevard.
It was designed by architect John McKecknie and built in 1905, and was demolished in 1988. The
Chalfonte Flats building, at 1110-12 E. Armour, stands in the middle of the block, was
designed by Matt O'Connell and built in 1909. The Juliet Apartments, in the foreground of the
image, stand at 1114-16 E. Armour, were also designed by John McKecknie and built in 1907. The
Juliet building has a "For Sale" sign in front of it at the time of the
photograph.

Photograph circa 1980s of a single family home at 1101 Park Avenue, built in 1905.
Located in the Independence Plaza neighborhood.

Photograph circa 1980s of a single family home at 1104 Park Ave East. It was
demolished in 1987. Located in the Independence Plaza neighborhood.

Photograph circa 1980s of a multi-family home at 1112-14 Virginia Avenue. The building
was demolished in the 1990s along with the majority of other houses on the block. The lots
were repurposed for commercial use and adjacent parking.

Photograph circa 1980s, taken from the vantage point of the corner of 9th Street and
Forest Avenue, looking northwest, of the Orville Apartments at 1116 E. 9th Street. Designed by
architect Otis Goddard, these apartments were torn down at some point in the 1990s. The First
Church of Christ Scientist, visible in the left side of the photograph, at 900 Forest Avenue,
is still standing as of 2018, though the congregation no longer resides there. Located in the
Paseo West neighborhood.

Photograph of a door on the west side of the Southwestern Bell facility at the
southwest corner of 12th Street and Cleveland Avenue in the early 1980s. The building, built
in 1930, housed the Benton and and Chestnut exchanges.

Photograph circa 1980s of two of the apartment buildings on the 100-118 block of West
Armour Boulevard. In the foreground, the featured building is 118 West Armour Boulevard. To to
its east is 114 West Armour Boulevard. Built in 1906 and designed by architect John W.
McKecknie, it underwent a major renovation sometime after 2012 and has been renamed as The
Colonnade Apartments, along with the apartment buildings on the rest of the block, east toward
Baltimore Avenue. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the
Armour Boulevard Multiple Resource Area in 1983 and on the the Kansas City Register of
Historic Places as part of the Old Hyde Park Historic District in 1994. Located in the Midtown
neighborhood.

Photograph circa 1980s of the 100 block of Park Avenue East, looking north toward
Saint John Avenue, capturing the block homes on the west side of the street. On the left,
partially obscured, is 126 Park Avenue, a single family home built in 1900. To the north are
124 Park Avenue, 122 Park Avenue, 120 Park Avenue, and 114 Park Avenue - all single family
homes built in 1880. Located in the Pendleton Heights neighborhood.

Photograph, looking south, circa late 1970s of the north facing porch of a single
family home at 115 Morningside Drive, built in 1919.

Photograph, looking west, circa late 1970s of a single family home at 115 Morningside
Drive, built in 1919. Located in the Brookside neighborhood.

Photograph looking north circa 1980s of the 200 block of Benton Boulevard. Addresses
include the church at 217 Benton Boulevard, which was designed by L. Grant Middaugh and built
in 1907 as well as single family homes at 211 Benton Boulevard, 205 Benton Boulevard and 201
Benton Boulevard. The apartment building visible at the end of the block was demolished in
1988.

Photograph circa late 1970s of westside windows of a single family home at 116
Morningside Drive, built in 1913.

Photograph circa late 1970s of the front door of a single family home at 116
Morningside Drive, built in 1913.

Photograph, from the 1980s, of the Orion Pictures building at the corner of 17th
Street and Baltimore Avenue. 118 W. 17th Street was built in 1946 as the Film Delivery
Building in an area called the Film District or Film Row; it was demolished in 2013 to create
a parking lot. Next to it in the picture is Missouri Valley Electric Company which was started
in 1924 and sold in 2003. An empty warehouse now, its address is 1640 Baltimore
Avenue.

Photograph circa 1980s of a single family home at 118 West 52nd St, built in 1910. It
was placed on the National Register of Historic Places Registration Form, Simpson-Yeomans /
Country Side Historic District Boundary Extension in 1999. Located in the South Plaza
neighborhood.

Photograph, looking south, of homes on the east side of the 100 block of
Garfield Avenue. In the foreground on the left is a single family home at 115 Garfield Avenue,
built in 1981. To the south in the middle of the photo, is the single family home at 119
Garfield Avenue, built in 1884. Further south is single family home at 121 Garfield Avenue.
121 Garfield Avenue and 119 Garfield Avenue were placed on the Kansas City Register of
Historic Places as part of the Pendleton Heights Historic District in 1992. Located in the
Pendleton Heights neighborhood.

Photograph of the north side of Warner Plaza in the early 1980s, including one of the
Warner Plaza Apartments buildings located at 8 Warner Plaza. The area, south of Linwood
Boulevard to 34th Street, between Main and Gillham, was deemed blighted and ridden with crime
and drugs in the late 1980s, and these buildings, as well as other homes, apartments, and
commercial buildings, were demolished in the early and mid-'90s as part of the so-called
"Glover Plan" to be replaced by the Midtown Marketplace development, a large
commercial development anchored by big box retailers Home Depot and Costco.

Photograph of a single-family residence at 12 West 70th Street in the 1980s. The
house, designed by local architect Elizabeth Evans Rivard, was built in 1925.

Photograph of a retail building at 12-14 East 31st Street, near the northeast corner
of 31st and Main in the early 1980s.

Photograph of businesses and buildings on the north side of the 1200 block of West
39th Street, circa 1990. Blondie's hair salon, which opened circa 1982 and closed in 1999,
stands in a repurposed house on the northwest corner of 39th and Roanoke. Signs for Kansas
City Floral and Nutri-Tan Tanning and Nutrition Center stand in front of buildings to the
west.

Photograph of houses at 1206 and 1212 East Armour Boulevard in the early 1980s. The
house on the left, 1206 E. Armour, was built in 1904 and has been called the William F. Stine
Residence after the original owner. The neighboring house, 1212 E. Armour, was also built in
1904 and has been called the John W. German Residence after its original owner. Both houses
were later converted to multi-family residences, and the house at 1212 Armour became
Fellowship House halfway house for men on parole or probation in 1980. To their west, at the
corner of Armour and Tracy in the early 1980s, the Armour Plaza Apartments building is also
pictured. The building was designed by Defoe and Besecke and opened in 1925. It was condemned
after a fire in 1985 and demolished in 1995.