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Title
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Corrigan Building
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Description
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Nomination form for the National Register of Historic Places for the Corrigan Building, with biographical information about its namesake, Thomas Corrigan, a Downtown construction contractor and street railway owner in 1880s Kansas City. Map and information about the building at 1828 Walnut Street, built in 1921 by designs from architects Keene & Simpson, as an example of a pre-World War I utilitarian warehouse with Arts and Crafts detailing.
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Object Type
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Report
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Title
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Fraud All the Way Through: The First Kansas City Waterworks
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Description
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Overview of the construction, fraud, and public scandal of the Kansas City waterworks. Beginning with the planning and building stages in 1873, and ending with a period of litigation and lawsuits that stretched from 1878 to 1888, the waterworks project was a complicated, murky, multi-ring circus involving the perpetrators (politically powerful and wealthy cronies), the city of Kansas City, and the state treasury of Missouri. Participants in the episode included John J. and Thomas H. Mastin of the Mastin Bank, Amos Green of the Kansas City Times, and Thomas Corrigan, known for designing, building, and operating the city's streetcar system.
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Date
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2014-01
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
