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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: 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: 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

Title: James Russell Lowell Apartments
Description: Photograph of the James Russell Lowell Apartments building at 722 Ward Parkway, circa 1988. Built in 1929, the Lowell building is part of a complex of apartments with literary names, known as the Poet Apartments, designed by local architect Nelle E. Peters.
Date: 1988~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Thomas Carlyle Apartments
Description: Photograph of the door of the Thomas Carlyle Apartments building at 700 Ward Parkway, circa 1988. Built in 1928, the Lowell building is part of a complex of apartments with literary names, known as the Poet Apartments, designed by local architect Nelle E. Peters.
Date: 1988~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Thomas Carlyle Apartments
Description: Photograph of windows on the east side of the Thomas Carlyle Apartments building at 700 Ward Parkway, circa 1988. Built in 1928, the Lowell building is part of a complex of apartments with literary names, known as the Poet Apartments, designed by local architect Nelle E. Peters.
Date: 1980~/1989~
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

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