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Paul Whitehill proposed the idea to create a Route 66 mural for Joplin to Chris Auckerman and Jon White of Images in Tile USA's art department. After much thought and planning, vision became art. Local sponsors assembled and helped them design the lower mural for tourists and visitors as a memorable photo opportunity, one that captures Joplin's ...
The district encompasses 11 contributing buildings in the central business district of Joplin. It developed between about 1900 and 1939 and includes representative examples of Renaissance Revival and Late Gothic Revival style architecture. Located in the district is the previously listed Joplin Supply Company. Other notable buildings include ...
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.
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. It developed between about 1883 and 1958 and includes representative examples of Mission Revival, Art Deco, and Modern Movement style ...
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.
Langston Hughes didn't spend much of his childhood in Missouri, but the poet's presence lingers. Hughes, one of our truest American compasses, entered the world on the first day of February 1901 ...
Flags are being lowered to half-staff across the U.S. through March 27 to honor the life of Madeleine Albright, the first female secretary of state.
This is a list of flags, arranged by design, serving as a navigational aid for identifying a given flag.Uncharged flags are flags that either are solid or contain only rectangles, squares and crosses but no crescents, circles, stars, triangles, maps, flags, coats of arms or other objects or symbols.