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Title
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City Hall
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Description
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Kansas City City Hall opened October 25, 1937, with a height of 423 feet and 30 stories. Located on 12th Street, bounded by Oak, Locust, 11th and 12th Streets. Built with a PWA grant of $1,575,000 for the building and $1,64,827 for the plaza and garage. Contract awarded to Swenson Construction Company. Architects Wight & Wight. PWA grants on the building amounted to 45 of the total cost of labor and materials, with all excavation work done by federal relief labor.
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Date
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1905-04-21
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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You Should Have Been Along: Auto-Biography of Edward F. Bowman
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Description
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Chapter of the autobiography of the author about the amateur Astronomy Club of the 1930s in Kansas City, memorialized in the carvings on the interior and exterior of City Hall at 12th and Oak Streets by Wight & Wight and architect E. D. Tarbell with symbols of the club. Descriptions throughout of the club's astronomical and meteorological sightings during the Depression.
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Object Type
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Book
