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Part of the ‘literary block’ near Kansas City’s Country Club Plaza, the James Russell Lowell apartment building was built between 1927 and 1929. Like many of Peters’s designs, the James Russell Lowell Apartments contain Spanish influences.

Thumbnail of the James Russell Lowell Apartments Thumbnail of the basement plan of the James Russell Lowell apartment building with the segregated dressing rooms highlighted

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