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Home > Missouri > Kansas City > Liberty Memorial, 100 West Twenty-sixth Street, Kansas City, Jackson County, MO



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Item Title


Location
100 West Twenty-sixth Street, Kansas City, MO

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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1933.

Notes
Survey number HABS MO-1936
Building/structure dates: 1923 initial construction
Building/structure dates: 1994 subsequent work
Significance: Liberty Memorial vividly exemplifies the fulfillment of city planning concepts, combining monumentally scaled Beaux Arts Classicism envisioned by some of the nations most notable and diverse delineators of the City Beautiful movement working in the early twentieth century. Liberty Memorial's complex of limestone buildings, together with the towering shaft, vast sculpture, bas-reliefs, decorative bronze art, and dramatic open vistas, all contribute to its power and distinction. Today it stands as one of the most important landmarks in Kansas City and one of the most commanding memorial sites in the nation. Moreover, Liberty Memorial remains one of the nation's most compelling monuments to those who sacrificed their lives during World War I and a remembrance of those who survived. Its dramatic combination of elements envisioned by architects, landscape architects, artists, and city leaders, is not only a momentous tribute to those veterans but also an important expression of American memorial architecture of the early twentieth century. Additionally, the Liberty Memorial houses the only public World War I museum in the United States.

Subjects
Building Deterioration
War (World War I)
Concrete Block Buildings


Related Names
Mogonigle, Harold Van Buren
White & White
City Of Kansas City
Olmstead Brothers
Kessler & Hare & Hare
Hool & Johnson
Gutowski, John W., Photographer
Millstein, Cydney E., Historian


Collection
Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)

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