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Title
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Federal Buildings In Kansas City
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Description
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Photos, illustrations, and information on the old federal buildings of Kansas City, doubling as post offices. First post office at 7th and Main Streets in the early 1880s, replaced in the mid-1880s in function with the Post Office and Customs House at the southeast corner of 9th and Walnut streets (also called the Federal Building and razed about 1932 for physical replacement by the Fidelity Building). Another federal building erected in 1900 with a dome on the east side of Grand Avenue between 8th and 9th streets, including a post office and demolished in 1938.
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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Federal Building and Post Office
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Description
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Photo and description of the Federal Building and Post Office building located at 9th and Walnut Streets, occupying 168 feet on Walnut Street and 115.5 feet on 9th Street.
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Date
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1932
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Object Type
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Book Section
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Title
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Hale's Water Tower In Action
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Description
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Street level view looking south of Hale's Water Tower in action in front of the Walnut Street Methodist Church, South located on Walnut Street between 8th and 9th. The Federal Custom House and Post Office located at 9th and Walnut is in view.
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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President Grover Cleveland
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Description
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Crowd scene at the speech given by President Grover Cleveland at the Federal Building located on the southeast corner of 9th and Walnut. Included in view is a sign advertising the Battle of Gettysburg which showed at the Cyclorama.
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Date
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1887-10
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Federal Building
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Description
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Full frontal and side view of second building; located on southeast corner of 9th and Walnut.
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Date
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1890
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Federal Building
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Description
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Group portrait of unidentified men in uniform standing before entrance to first building.
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Federal Building
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Description
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Detail view of first building showing clock and tower.
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Federal Building
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Description
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Demolition of first building.
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Date
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1930-10-02
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Law of Demand
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Description
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Article describes difficulties and negotiations involved in the rehabilitation of the Law Building and the Federal Building at 9th and Walnut.
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Date
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2003-08-14
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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911: An Emergency on Walnut
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Description
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Article about the twin-towered Post Office Federal Building, winner of 1931 American Institute of Architecture award. Story of its near abandonment after a report by OSHA (Office of Safety and Health Administration).
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Date
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1994
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Federal Government in Greater Kansas City
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Description
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Description of the federal building officially called the U.S. Customs House & Post Office, at 9th and Walnut Streets. Under construction in 1879, opened on August 29, 1885. Site cost $8,500, total cost reportedly $325,000. Three-story gray sandstone structure with two towers and an ornamental iron fence bordering on two sides with the Town Clock in one of its towers. Building razed in 1930 to make way for the new Fidelity Bank Building. The building was sold to the Fidelity Bank & Trust Company for $260,000.
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Date
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1939
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Object Type
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Book