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This architectural rendering 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 Emslie, 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: 305221
Call Number: FK2.S5 T.73 B.Cap *5
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 305221
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 - Drawing, Architectural
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 - Drawings (Technical) - Architectural
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