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Liberty Memorial Mystery Building

Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2017 9:47 pm
by TheLastGentleman
From the Encyclopedia Britannica entry on Liberty Memorial.
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Re: Liberty Memorial Mystery Building

Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2017 10:35 pm
by pash
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Re: Liberty Memorial Mystery Building

Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2017 9:21 am
by AlbertHammond
THE KANSAS CITY TIMES, SATURDAY, JULY 24, 1985

THE FORMER BRUCE DODSON INSURANCE BUILDING is to be remodeled and connected with St. Mary’s hospital in a project that will be started Monday. The hospital will use the 2-story building for a medical library, laboratory, auditorium, classroom and other purposes.

Re: Liberty Memorial Mystery Building

Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2017 10:06 am
by Critical_Mass
You can see it on the right:
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Re: Liberty Memorial Mystery Building

Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2017 9:09 am
by flyingember
This also connects to the history of the Trinity Lutheran site to the south of the photo just above this post.
Trinity hospital has had the helping hand of Hawkinson, durable realtor, on many occasions. He traded the lots now occupied by the Bruce Dodson insurance building on Liberty Memorial hill, as down payment on the present hospital. The site for Salem home for the elderly, near the hospital, and the lots on which Trinity now is expanding southward toward Thirty- first street, were Hawkinson acquirements. Trinity building funds, too, have been fattened by Hawkinson at crucial periods. Some time ago Axel Hawkinson came upon two bottles of Madeira wine, and the reason why Hawkinson, not a wine bibber or fancier, acquired them was the date of their vintage— 1906—the same year Trinity hospital was born. Perhaps at some milestone in the hospital a toast should be quaffed from those bottles, Hawkinson says. Maybe when the preacher turns his back.
1952 Kansas City Times
https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/61131273/

Re: Liberty Memorial Mystery Building

Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2017 2:46 pm
by TheLastGentleman
Very interesting research guys! Thanks for taking the time to look into that.