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Voters approved a $4 million bond issue in 1931 for construction of the courthouse and adjacent Kansas City City Hall; the structure was dedicated in December 1934. Truman maintained an office in the new courthouse building during most of his first term as U.S. Senator, from 1935 to 1939.
Signature Inn began in 1981 in Indianapolis, Indiana, [4] while Jameson Inn was founded in 1987 in Winder, Georgia. [5]The company was purchased by JER Partners in 2006, at which point the chain comprised 107 properties. [6]
Parliament House Hotel was an 11-story, 237-room hotel which occupied the west side of 20th Street South between 4th and 5th Avenues (420 South 20th Street) from 1964 to 2008 in Birmingham, Alabama.
The chain has purchased several historic buildings for renovation as hotels. [12] [13] Historic buildings that the chain has renovated into hotels include the Union Market in St. Louis (originally built in 1925), [14] the former Cleveland Board of Education building in Cleveland (originally built in 1931) [15] the former City Public Service Building (originally built in 1921) [16] and the ...
The county offices have moved a few blocks away to the Independence Courthouse Annex, located at 308 W. Kansas. [2] The Jackson County Historical Society office and archives are housed in the building. It underwent a massive renovation to restore President Truman's office and courtroom, and to fix major structural issues. [3]
As one of the New Deal's last major construction projects of the 1930s, the U.S. Post Office and Courthouse provided modern space to accommodate the burgeoning presence of the federal government in Kansas City. [2] The building's architectural design was produced by the prominent local architecture firm Wight and Wight, whose distinguished ...
Augusta is a city in Butler County, Kansas, United States. [1] As of the 2020 census , the population of the city was 9,256. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It is located east of Wichita along U.S. Route 54 / 400 highway .
The Romanesque Revival courthouse was typical of Washburn's courthouse designs; of the eleven surviving courthouses designed by the architect, nine are Romanesque. The red brick courthouse features a central clock tower and four octagonal corner towers, a statue of the Goddess of Justice, and a hipped roof with cross gables, all common features ...