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Landmark Attractions In Missouri

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Missouri is a state in the Midwestern United States. With over six million residents, it is the 18th-most populous state of the Union. The largest urban areas are St. Louis, Kansas City, Springfield, and Columbia; the capital is Jefferson City, near the center of the state on the Missouri River. The state is the 21st-most extensive in area. In the South are the Ozarks, a forested highland, providing timber, minerals, and recreation. The Mississippi River forms the eastern border of the state. Humans have inhabited the land now known as Missouri for at least 12,000 years. The Mississippian culture built cities and mounds, before declining in the 1300s. ...
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  • 1. Glenn House Cape Girardeau
    The Glenn House is a historic home located at Cape Girardeau, Missouri. It was built in 1883, and is a two-story, Late Victorian style painted brick dwelling. It is topped by cross-gabled and pyramidal roofs. It features a verandah with Tuscan order columns, turret, and oriel window. The house has been restored and open to the public by the Historical Association of Greater Cape Girardeau, Inc.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. It is located in the Courthouse-Seminary Neighborhood Historic District.
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  • 2. Missouri Wall of Fame Cape Girardeau
    The Missouri Wall of Fame is a 500-foot span of flood wall in downtown Cape Girardeau, Missouri, covered with a mural of 45 panels depicting 46 or 47 famous people who were born in the state or achieved fame while living there. The names were chosen by a panel of the Cape's leading citizens and it was painted in 1995, designed by local artist Margaret Dement. Those depicted on the wall include:
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  • 5. Jefferson Barracks Telephone Museum Saint Louis
    The Jefferson Barracks Telephone Museum is located at 12 Hancock Ave in Lemay, St. Louis County, Missouri. It is located within the 426-acre Jefferson Barracks Historic District which was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. The museum is housed in a restored 1896 building that is a 15-minute drive south of downtown Saint Louis Missouri.
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  • 7. Crown Center Kansas City
    The Sheraton Kansas City Hotel at Crown Center is a 504.0 ft , 45-story hotel located in the Crown Center complex in Kansas City, Missouri. The hotel opened on July 1, 1980 as the Hyatt Regency Kansas City and was Missouri's tallest building from 1980 to 1986. It is now the state's sixth-tallest building and Kansas City's third-tallest building. It has 42,860 sq ft of function space, a 17,487 sq ft ballroom and a dedicated exhibit hall with 15,360 sq ft . It has 733 guestrooms, including 42 suites.In 1987, the hotel was renamed the Hyatt Regency Crown Center. It was again renamed the Sheraton Kansas City Hotel at Crown Center on December 1, 2011.The hotel was formerly topped by a revolving rooftop restaurant, Skies, which closed along with the hotel's Peppercorn Duck Club when the hotel be...
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  • 8. The Copper Coin Branson
    This partial list of city nicknames in the United States compiles the aliases, sobriquets and slogans that cities are known by , officially and unofficially, to municipal governments, local people, outsiders or their tourism boards or chambers of commerce. City nicknames can help establish a civic identity, help outsiders recognize a community, attract people to a community because of its nickname, promote civic pride, and build community unity. Nicknames and slogans that successfully create a new community ideology or myth are also believed to have economic value. This value is difficult to measure, but there are anecdotal reports of cities that have achieved substantial economic benefits by branding themselves by adopting new slogans.In 2005 the consultancy Tagline Guru conducted a small...
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  • 11. Dancing Water Fountain Branson
    A musical fountain, also known as a dancing fountain, is a type of animated fountain for entertainment purposes that creates an aesthetic design . This is achieved by employing the effects of timed sound waves and timed light against water particles. The water refracts and reflects the light, and in doing so, three-dimensional images can be produced. Installations can be large scale, employing hundreds of water jets and lights, and costing into the millions of dollars, or in smaller household forms, where a budget of one thousand dollars is feasible. Musical features tend to be complex, and require a degree of mechanical, hydraulic, electrical, and electronic components out of view that might be as impressive to its audience as the show itself.
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  • 12. Citygarden Saint Louis
    Citygarden is an urban park and sculpture garden in St. Louis, Missouri owned by the City of St. Louis but maintained by the Gateway Foundation. It is located between Eighth, Tenth, Market, and Chestnut streets, in the city's Gateway Mall area. Before being converted to a garden and park, the site comprised two empty blocks of grass. Citygarden was dedicated on June 30, 2009, and opened one day later, on July 1, 2009.Citygarden is 2.9 acres in size—occupying two square city blocks—and cost US$30 million to develop. St. Louis' Gateway Foundation, a not-for-profit organization supporting public art, funded the design and construction of the garden. While the city owns the land on which Citygarden was developed, the foundation owns the statues and covers all park maintenance costs except ...
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  • 15. Washington University in St. Louis Saint Louis
    Washington University in St. Louis is a private research university located in the St. Louis metropolitan area and elsewhere in Missouri. Founded in 1853, and named after George Washington, the university has students and faculty from all 50 U.S. states and more than 120 countries. As of 2017, 24 Nobel laureates have been affiliated with Washington University, nine having done the major part of their pioneering research at the university. Washington University's undergraduate program is ranked 18th by U.S. News & World Report in 2018 and 11th by The Wall Street Journal in their 2018 rankings. The university is ranked 20th in the world in 2017 by the Academic Ranking of World Universities. The acceptance rate for the class of 2022 was 15%, with students selected from more than 31,000 applic...
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