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BOT: 1906
Submitted by Dave on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 11:50am.
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Kansas City, Missouri, circa 1906. "Board of Trade Building." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
That's a lot of bricks!
Submitted by JulesWinfield on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 2:48pm.
There's rather nice history of the building here. Needless to say, it's no longer around, having been razed in 1968.
Home sweet home
Submitted by Maniak Productions on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 2:25pm.
60 years before my time that is.
Spot the window washer.
Burnham & Root
Submitted by Michael R on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 12:20pm.
This was Burnham & Root's most important commission in Kansas City. The Chicago firm won an architectural competition held for the project in 1886; the building was finished in 1888. The trading room was located behind the big arched windows on the top floor of the left-hand wing. Alas, like nearly all the other Burnham & Root buildings in KCMO, it was torn down - in this case, in 1968.
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