LIBERTY MEMORIAL

The 'Liberty Memorial', is located in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. It houses 'The National World War I Museum', as designated by the United States Congress in 2004. ^[2] On September 21, 2006, Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne declared the memorial a National Historic Landmark. [1]

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History

The memorial was designed by Harold Van Buren Magonigle who won a design competition. The primary sculptor was Robert Aikten. The approaches were designed by Wight and Wight.
It was dedicated on November 11, 1926, by U.S. President Calvin Coolidge. In attendance at the groundbreaking ceremony on November 1, 1921, were Lieutenant General Baron Jacques of Belgium, Admiral Lord Earl Beatty of Great Britain, General Armando Diaz of Italy, Marshal Ferdinand Foch of France and General John Pershing of the United States. In 1935, bas reliefs by Walker Hancock of Jacques, Beatty, Diaz, Foch and Pershing were unveiled.
The Liberty Memorial houses the official World War I museum of the United States. Among other landscaping, its grounds include two large sphinx sculptures, the centerpiece 217-foot (66 m) tower, and the museums around and under the tower. Commensurate with the memorial's congressional designation as the "national" memorial and museum, a new, much larger museum opened in 2006 beneath the main memorial to form a huge museum complex (see below).

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Photos

Liberty Memorial Photos

External links

★ "''Liberty Memorial''" Official website.

★ Aber, Sarajane Sandusky, "''An Architectural History of the Liberty Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri''". University of Missouri-Kansas City, 1918-1935.

★ Creighton, Neal, (Maj. Gen. U.S. Army retired), "''The Liberty Memorial''". Association of the U.S. Army, November 2002.

★ Myers, Richard B., (General, U.S. Air Force; Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff), "''Liberty Memorial Rededication''". Kansas City, MO, Saturday, 25 May 2002

★ Liberty Memorial Association, "''Murals at Liberty Memorial''". 1961 (Photos and description of murals adapted to Memory Hall of the Liberty Memorial in the 1940s-1950s; MacMorris, Daniel) [Kansas City Public Library]

★ Millstein, Cydney, "''Historic American Buildings Survery of Liberty Memorial''". Architectural and Historical Research, April 1, 2000.

★ Why Kansas City (The Great War gets an official museum of its own) by Mark Yost, Wall Street Journal, November 29, 2006

Sources

1. National Register Information System
2. The National World War One Museum, libertymemorialmuseum.org. Accessed Sept. 2006.