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Title: Nelle E. Peters
Description: Photos and information on Nelle Peters (1884-1974), an early woman architect in Kansas City and designer of many apartment buildings including the so-called Poet Apartments or "literary block" on West 48th Street on the Country Club Plaza.
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Historic Plaza Living At An Affordable Price
Description: The Robert Louis Stevenson Condominiums are located at the corner of Jefferson Street and Ward Parkway near the Country Club Plaza. This older apartment building was designed by local woman architect Nelle Peters and is seven stories high. The condos start at $140,000. The building has been completely renovated and still features the detailed crown moldings and sun proches.
Date: 2007-06-09
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Architecture Along Armour Boulevard
Description: Nomination form for the National Register of Historic Places for Armour Boulevard, includes map and information on the two apartment buildings there designed by Kansas City architect Nelle Peters for real estate developer Charles Phillips. Ellison Apartments were built in 1926 at 306 West Armour Boulevard and Del Monte Apartments in 1920 at 200-202 West Armour Boulevard.
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Heads Go Up, and Official Thumbs Go Down
Description: Eight self-portrait ceramic head sculptures done by Kansas City Art Institute students sit perched on the roofline of an apartment building at 48th and Jefferson called Vanity Fair. The heads were glued in place by apartment owner Don Anderson. The apartment building was designed by Nelle E. Peters and is part of the Poets Group located near the Country Club Plaza and is in a historic district. The city's Landmark Commission now wants the heads taken down.
Date: 2004-09-11
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Evil Twins Receive a Reprise
Description: Story features the Hillcrest Apartments near the intersection of Gladstone Boulevard and St. John Avenue. The buildings have been vacant since a fire in August of 2001 and are referred to by persons in the neighborhood as the "evil twins". The structures were designed by Nelle Peters in 1922 and in recent years have had many code violations. The apartments are located in the Scarritt Renaissance Neighborhood in the northeast area of the city.
Date: 2003-03-05
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Hillcrest Apartments
Description: Captioned photo of the Hillcrest Apartments. "The Hillcrest Apartments, 509-11 Gladstone Blvd., were renovated last year, with oversight from the Kansas City Landmarks Commission. In a national historic district, with new wood-frame windows custom-made to comply, and representing the work of architect Nelle Peters..."
Date: 2005-11-16
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Nelle E. Peters
Description: Portrait of local architect Nelle E. Peters. Photograph made from the picture that appears in the book, The Book of the National Republican Convention: Kansas City, Mo.--June 12, 1928, MVSC Q 099.9 K16B, p.180.
Date: 1928
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Ambassador Apartments
Description: Photograph of the front porch of Ambassador Apartments at 441 Knickerbocker Place, circa 1981. The building, called Ambassador B, and its twin neighbor to the east, Ambassador A, were designed by local architect Nelle Peters and were built by the Ambassador Hotel to serve as overflow guest rooms in 1927 and were later used as apartments. Both buildings were razed in 2012.
Date: 1981~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 5825 Overhill Road
Description: Photograph of a single-family residence at 5825 Overhill Road in the 1980s. The house was designed by local architect Nelle E. Peters for her frequent collaborator, apartment developer Charles E. Phillips, in 1928. In 1933 he sold the home to Thomas Luzier, of Luzier Cosmetics.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Normandy Apartments
Description: Photograph of the Normandy Apartments building at 501-05 West 11th Street in the 1980s. The Normandy was designed by local architect Nelle E. Peters and built in 1928.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Ambassador Hotel
Description: Photograph of the Ambassador Apartments building at 3560 Broadway Boulevard in the early 1980s. The building was designed by local architect Nelle E. Peters and built in 1924 as the Ambassador Hotel. The building was renovated into apartments circa 1982, at the time the building and several of its neighbors were placed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Luzier Cosmetics Building
Description: Photograph circa 1980s of the Luzier Cosmetics building at 3216 Gillham Plaza. The north building (five bays) was built in 1927 for the Martha Washington Candy Company by the architectural firm Hoit, Price & Barnes. The south building (three bays) was designed by local architect Nelle E. Peters in 1928. "When the two buildings were linked together in 1933 with a one-story, one-bay unit, and a second story walkway, the main facade of the north building was modified to match the features designed by Peters for the original Luzier facility." (National Register of Historic Places Registration Form, p. 7) The building served as headquarters for Luzier’s Cosmetics Firm from 1928 until 2000. In 2017, it was placed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Luzier Special Formula Laboratories Building.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: The Amazing Nelle E. Peters
Description: Photos and article about Nelle Peters (1884-1974), "one of Kansas City's most successful architects" and "responsible for the design of over 1,000 buildings" including "[t]he 'literary block' or 'poets' row'. ..a series of apartment buildings on [W]est 48th Street in Kansas City" as well as other apartments, hotels, residences, and commercial buildings, etc.
Date: 1990~/1999~
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: The Architectural Career of Nelle Peters
Description: Photos and biographical article about Nelle Peters (1884-1974), a Kansas City architect specializing in hotels and apartments especially in the 1920s. Native of North Dakota and coming to Kansas City in the late 1901s before opening her own architectural practice about 1910 and going on to design "hundreds" of apartment or hotel buildings.
Date: 1989-01
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Apartments' Past Could Stop Wrecking Ball
Description: Article focuses upon an effort to prevent the demolition of three adjacent two-story apartment buildings located in the Country Club Plaza that were designed by Kansas City architect Nelle Peters. Greg Allen, president of the Historic Kansas City Foundation, is interviewed and describes his organization's efforts. The author states that the potential demolition is being handled by 47 Summit LLC, an organization managed by the Overland Park-based Price Brothers.
Date: 2015-06-19
Object Type: Newspaper Article

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