3D print Niels Petersen House
A free, printable model of the Niels Petersen House, a two-story Queen Anne house with gables and wraparound porches, on its open green lot, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About Niels Petersen House
Tempe, Arizona, has a local historic landmark in the Niels Petersen House, with National Register of Historic Places listing from 1978. Among the Salt River Valley's Queen Anne style brick homes, it is the oldest. Danish immigrant Niels Petersen, a prominent local farmer and entrepreneur, decided in 1892 to build a Queen Anne Victorian-style home, and architect James Creighton designed the two-story house for Petersen's ranch south of town.
Petersen was born in Vilslev, Denmark, on October 21, 1845, and arrived in the Salt River Valley in 1871. He filed a homestead claim in 1874, and his ranch eventually grew past 1,000 acres, making him a top cattle and grain producer in the area. He served as a trustee of the Tempe School District, sat on the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors and held the presidency of the Farmers and Merchants Bank. On September 1, 1892, he married Susanna Decker.
When it was finished, people widely saw it as one of the region's most elegant homes. Creighton worked in Arizona for many years, and his surviving works include the Tempe Hardware Building on Mill Avenue, the Pinal County Courthouse and Old Main at Arizona State University. Petersen died on April 27, 1923, and was reburied at his home. In 1927 the house passed to Rev. Edward Decker, who modified it.
How it prints
Make this print opens the generator on a 600 m square around the landmark. Buildings print at close to true scale, so the landmark grows with the print size.
| Print size | Landmark height | Scale |
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| 160 mm default | 3 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 4 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 5 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Busy roofline with gables
- The roof is a tangle of steep gables, dormers and chimneys. "Print friendly" adapts the smallest of these to the print scale; "Full detail" keeps them, which suits a larger print.
- Porches and shingle bands
- Thin porch posts, a curved porch corner and bands of shingles wrap the walls. A layer height of 0.12–0.16 mm keeps these crisp, though this is a small, low model.
- One piece with the ground
- Niels Petersen House is joined to the ground in the exported file, and the four-side check found no floating parts, so nothing needs gluing.
- Pick the detail for your nozzle
- In the Buildings settings, set Landmark detail to Print friendly to adapt thin parts and small details to the print scale. Full detail keeps every modeled feature, for larger prints or a finer nozzle.
- Colors
- Buildings, roads, water and ground arrive as separate filament slots in the 3MF. Niels Petersen House takes the building color.
- File format
- You get a 3MF for Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer or PrusaSlicer. Any of them can save it as STL if you need one.
About this model
Niels Petersen House is one of more than 2,300 landmark models in Mini Skyline. They are made with AI, and each one is checked from four sides in its real surroundings before release. Everything around it is built from OpenStreetMap and Overture map data. If you would rather print the shape from map data, turn off Landmark models in the Buildings settings.
Common questions
Is there a Niels Petersen House STL I can download?
Mini Skyline builds the file for you in your browser and exports 3MF, which every major slicer opens. If you need an STL, open the 3MF in your slicer and export it from there.
How big can I print it?
Any print size from 40 mm across. Niels Petersen House grows with the print: about 3 mm tall on the default 160 mm print. For a model larger than your printer bed, Project Mode splits the area into tiles.
Is it free?
Yes. Generation runs in your browser, with no account and nothing behind a paywall.
