Chapter V

COMPLETION 1926-1935

After six years of inactivity, it was Kansas City architects Wight & Wight, employed by the Liberty Memorial Association, and Frederick Law Omsted, Jr., retained by Kansas City's Parks Department, who finished the job. The Memorial itself stood completed at its fourth and final dedication on Armistice Day 1935, but the bright Art Center concept was never to be realized.

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Figure 21.

Figure 22. Magonigle, Liberty Memorial, view from the northwest, 1926.
Drawing by Hugh Ferriss (Hewlett, Journal of A.I.A. 1926).
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Figure 23. Magonigle, Liberty Memorial final model (above), 1926, and
competition drawing (below), 1921 (Saylor, Architecture 1927, 1).
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Figure 24. Amateis, Liberty Memorial north wall
frieze, and Wight & Wight fountain, 1935.
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