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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: Thomas Carlyle Apartments
Description: Frontal view of apartments at 700 Ward 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: Thomas Carlyle Apartments
Description: Front entrance of apartments at 700 Ward Parkway
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: Thomas Carlyle Apartments
Description: Frontal view of apartments at 700 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: Thomas Carlyle Apartments
Description: Distant front view of apartments at 700 Ward Parkway
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: 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: 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: Robert Browning Apartments
Description: Photograph of the Robert Browning apartment building, at 4809 Roanoke Parkway, circa 1988. The building was constructed in 1929, and is part the "Poet Apartments" cluster of buildings named for famous writers and designed by local architect Nelle E. Peters.
Date: 1988~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Cezanne Apartments
Description: Photograph of the door of the Cezanne Apartments building at 712 West 48th Street, circa 1988. The building, along with its mirror twin Rousseau Building at 720 West 48th, were built in 1929 and designed by local architect Nelle E. Peters. The pair are the Painter Buildings, adjacent Peters' Poet Buildings cluster.
Date: 1988~
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

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