The Flickr Carthagelimestone Image Generatr

Ah yes 1911, that was the year the U.S. Supreme Court ordered Standard Oil to be broken up into 34 smaller companies to comply with the Sherman Antitrust Act.

The author of the court's opinion was ex-Confederate Edward Douglass White, one of the supervillains of the Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896!

But oh well, this is just a building.

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In downtown Kansas City, Kansas, on March 29th, 2022, at the City Hall Lofts in the former Kansas City City Hall (built 1910-1911, designed by Rose & Peterson, 86000857 on the National Register of Historic Places) at the northeast corner of North 6th Street and Ann Avenue.

The base limestone is Carthage limestone from Missouri. The slightly darker limestone above the cornerstone is Bedford limestone from Indiana.

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The Corolla's color is Desert Sand Mica — my favorite color!

At the bottom there are 2 kinds of limestone, brought to Kansas from 2 weird places: Missouri (the subtly lighter "Carthage limestone" at the base) and Indiana (the "Bedford limestone" above it, with horizontal striations).

The building is loft apartments now.

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In downtown Kansas City, Kansas, on March 29th, 2022, the former Kansas City City Hall (built 1910-1911, designed by Rose & Peterson, 86000857 on the National Register of Historic Places) at the northeast corner of North 6th Street and Ann Avenue.

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Joplin Federal Building and Courthouse was completed in 1904
Currently home to ESC.

Our Missouri trip is ending, and we are heading back to St. Louis from Kansas City. We stop in Jefferson City to get a shot of the capitol building.

Visit the Missouri State Capitol Building.

Here is the state seal, admonishing folks not to go all civil war on each other. The frieze here either depicts Lewis & Clark or Jefferson.

Visit the Missouri State Capitol Building.

The most fascinating thing I learned about Missouri was the effect of the Civil War on its civilian population. It's easy to focus on the mechanics of the Army of Northern Virginia versus Lincoln's generals. That's easy: battle stuff. But in Missouri, the people were divided. The towns were divided.

In 1863, General Order No. 11 forced citizens to evacuate four counties in Missouri on the Kansas border. If you swore allegiance to the United States, then you could stay (maybe not in town, but nearby). If you didn't swear allegiance, you had to get out. Residents of this town were given 10 minutes to pack, after which the town was burned.

South of this town is Lamar, birthplace of Truman. Eargney says, "So divided was the town that ill feelings continued until formally set aside in 1910, when veterans met at the square and shook hands, saying, 'The war is over, everyone is glad.'" That was forty-five years after the end of the Civil War.

By the way, we stopped here because the courthouse was described as having "all the characteristics of its style, e.g., spring arches, corner towers, archved windows, rusticated stone, and a massive central clock tower..." The Carthage limestone was quarried nearby, and I wanted to see that. (Carthage, Missouri, was the site of the first official battle of the Civil War, a couple weeks before Manassass.)

They were playing 80s music on loudspeakers all around the square, which struck me as odd and perhaps disrespectful to the town's history. I happened to be wearing a Gettysburg t-shirt featuring Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain as I danced around the courthouse, which probably was not respectful, either...

Quotes above are from Missouri Roadsides by Bill Earngey.
Read more onWikipedia about General Order No. 11, which evacuated four Missouri counties during the Civil War.