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This photograph shows the Capitol Building and Loan Association at 534 Kansas Avenue in Topeka, Kansas. When this brick structure was completed in 1924, it was considered "an architectural landmark in the Midwest". The architect George Grant Elmslie, sculptor Emil Robert Zettler, and muralist John W. Norton designed the building on a theme to "symbolize the Kansas home as a safeguard of liberty and stability." In 1968 the building was demolished.
Date: Between 1924 and 1934
Item Number: 24234
Call Number: FK2.S5 T.73 B. CAP *2
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 24234
Built Environment - Function - Commerce/Trade - Financial Institution
Business and Industry - Banking - Banks
Business and Industry - Banking - Saving & loans
Collections - Photograph
Date - 1920s
Date - 1930s
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Places - Cities and towns - Topeka
Places - Counties - Shawnee
Thematic Time Period - Great Depression and Dust Bowl, 1929 - 1941
Thematic Time Period - The Twenties, 1920 - 1929
Type of Material - Photographs
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