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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: Park Manor Apartments
Description: Partial frontal views.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Washington Irving Apartments
Description: Partial frontal and corner view of apartments at 48th Street
Date: 1999
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Washington Irving Apartments
Description: Distant view of apartments at 4746 Roanoke Parkway
Date: 1999
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Robert Browning Apartments
Description: Full frontal view of apartments at 4809 Roanoke Parkway.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Eugene Field Apartments
Description: Front view of Eugene Field Apartments, 807 W. 48th Street.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Mark Twain Apartments
Description: Entrance to Mark Twain Apartments at 4801 Roanoke Parkway.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Robert Louis Stevenson Apartments
Description: Entrance and partial frontal view of apartments at 4804 Jefferson.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Photograph

Title: James Russell Lowell Apartments
Description: Front entrance of James Russell Lowell Apartments, 722 Ward Parkway.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Park Manor Apartments
Description: Partial frontal view of apartments on Ward Parkway, west of Roanoke.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Robert Browning Apartments
Description: Front view of apartments at 4809 Roanoke Parkway.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Photograph

Title: James Russell Lowell Apartments
Description: Partial frontal and side view of James Russell Lowell Apartments, 722 Ward Parkway.
Date: 1999
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: Washington Irving Apartment Building
Description: Photograph of the front entry of the Washington Irving apartments at the northwest corner of 48th and Roanoke, circa 1987. The building was constructed in 1928, and is part the "Poet Apartments" cluster of buildings named for famous writers and designed by local architect Nelle E. Peters.
Date: 1987~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Plaza Aerial View
Description: Aerial photograph looking west through the Plaza in the 1980s, with 47th Street running along the right edge of the image and Brush Creek running through the middle. The image spans from roughly McGee Street west to State Line Road. Plaza-area commercial and residential buildings filling the bulk of the image.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph, Cityscapes

Title: Park Plaza Building Grounds
Description: Photograph of the lawn adjacent to the Park Plaza office building at 801 West 47th Street, looking south down Roanoke Parkway, circa 1987. The Winston Churchill and Mark Twain apartment buildings, on 48th Street, are visible in the background.
Date: 1987~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Intersection of Roanoke Parkway and Ward Parkway
Description: Photograph, looking north on Roanoke Parkway, of the intersection of Roanoke and Ward Parkway circa 1980. Both sides of Roanoke are lined with apartment buildings, including Sunset Tower, 4821 Roanoke in the foreground right. The Robert Browning Apartments building stands to its north. The Park Manor apartment buildings line the left side of the street. The Park Manor buildings were later demolished for office/commercial development.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 800 Block of West 48th Street
Description: Photograph, looking east, of apartment buildings lining the south side of 48th Street between Roanoke Parkway and Jefferson Street. Pictured from right to left: the Mark Twain Apartments at 4801 Roanoke, the Eugene Field Apartments at 807 West 48th, the Winston Churchill at 803 West 48th, and the Longfellow apartments at 4800 Jefferson Street.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Plaza Aerial View
Description: Aerial photograph looking east through the Plaza along Brush Creek and Ward Parkway in the 1980s. Plaza-area commercial and residential buildings filling the bulk of the image, from roughly Roanoke Parkway on the west to McGee at the east.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph, Cityscapes