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Liberty Memorial, Kansas City

Saturday, 18th June 2005 by James

With it’s 217 foot tower the Liberty Memorial is the United States’s only major World War I monument. Built in 1921 the monument incorporates two Sphinx sculptures, two museums and the tower, which is topped by four large stone figures representing Courage, Honour, Patriotism and Sacrifice.

After getting run down and becoming a ‘haven for male prostitution and drug dealing’ the memorial went through a $30 million restoration in 2000-2002 and is once again a valuable tourist attraction.

Liberty Memorial

Thanks: Ben Haines & Sam

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6 Responses to 'Liberty Memorial, Kansas City'

  1. 1. aaron says: June 18th, 2005 at 7:41 pm

    nice season change just south too.

  2. 2. robertw says: June 18th, 2005 at 9:14 pm

    Seems to be popular with the coach parties….
    see the road above it

  3. 3. robertw says: June 19th, 2005 at 10:38 am

    Sorry, actually a railway line!

  4. 4. MaxPower says: June 23rd, 2005 at 6:21 pm

    Richmond has a WWI monument: the carillon. Unfortunately, we don’t have satellite imagery yet. But you can *kind of* see it Placemark: here / Google Earth.

  5. 5. Sam says: June 25th, 2005 at 11:50 pm

    The trains and accompanying tracks just north of the memorial are going to and from “Union Station”, another famous KC landmark: http://www.unionstation.org/history.cfm.

  6. 6. Andrés David says: July 12th, 2005 at 12:12 am

    It looks like a screaming demon skull from above. Perhaps the demon of war… :)

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