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MAKING HISTORY

N MISSOURI, more than 2,500 sites, including battlefields, banks, schools, and houses, are listed on the National Register of Historic places. The historic significance of some—such as Louis Sullivan’s Wainwright Building, whose construction marked the birth of the skyscraper, and the house on McPherson where writer Kate Chopin lived and penned her final works—is apparent. But the relevance

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