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Front elevation of the Cottesbrook, located at 708 W 48th St, Kansas City, MO

Name Restored to West Plaza, Nelle Peters-Designed Building

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A new placard has been installed on a 48th St. building located just west of the Country Club Plaza. How might a new sign, simply denoting “708 W 48th St / COTTESBROOK APARTMENTS,” amount to a newsworthy story?  The sign, situated on a (comparatively) sleepy cut-through between the commercial district and Roanoke Parkway, is significant […]

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The Emil Rohrer Home: A Landmark of Concrete Construction

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4425 Terrace today, viewed from the west. Captured March 2025. Like most American cities, Kansas City suffered a lull of private home-building throughout the decade of the 1930s. Outside of the impressive public construction projects associated with the Ten-Year Plan, a scant few neighborhoods saw extensive development during this period, and many commercial and industrial

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