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Joplin is the main hub of the three-county Joplin-Miami, Missouri-Oklahoma Metro area, which is home to 210,077 people; this makes the city the fifth largest metropolitan area in Missouri. In May 2011, a violent EF5 tornado killed more than 150 people and destroyed one-third of the city.
Route 66 Mural Park (opened 2013 in Joplin, Missouri) operates as a public park, specifically as a touchstone for US Route 66 tourists as well as for local preservers of U.S. Route 66 in Missouri. The park includes two large tile murals proposed by Paul Whitehill, produced by Images In Tile USA [1] and designed by artists Chris Auckerman [2 ...
The Bonnie and Clyde Garage Apartment is located at 3347 + 1 ⁄ 2 Oak Ridge Drive in Joplin, Newton County, Missouri. Its front door opens onto 34th Street. It was built about 1927, and is a two-story building on a poured concrete foundation. It has a gently pitched hipped roof and exposed rafter ends in the American Craftsman style. [2]
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Eventually Hugh and Lee Anne Howsman purchased the building to house their Howsman's Office Supply and Furniture Co. [9] Over time Howsman's business plan changed and in 2006 they sold the building to the Matt Miller Co. of Springfield, Missouri, [10] who redeveloped the upper stories into lofts and restored the main floor into an events space.
The 2011 Joplin tornado was a large EF5 tornado that devastated Joplin, Missouri, United States, on the evening of Sunday, May 22, 2011.As part of a larger late-May sequence of tornadic activity, the extremely violent tornado began just west of Joplin and quickly reached a peak width of nearly 1 mile (1.6 km) as it tracked through the southern part of the city, before later impacting rural ...
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Joplin Downtown Historic District is a national historic district located at Joplin, Jasper County, Missouri.The district encompasses 48 contributing buildings in the central business district of Joplin.