Kansas National Capitol Building

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This is a model of a fictional Prairie/Art Deco-Style national capitol building, which is based on the Woodbury County Courthouse in Sioux City, Iowa, Unity Temple in Oak Park, Illinois, and the Nebraska State Capitol in Lincoln, Nebraska. The building consists of a broken-up squared-off ring of three-to-four-floor offices with eight-floor towers at the corner, four five-floor wings that radiate out from the central tower with large entrances at the outside ends, and a large central tower with eighteen floors. The building is massive, at around 600' long on each side. This is broken up with pilasters and other elements based on the ornamentation and decoration found on the Woodbury County Courthouse and Unity Temple. The building also has a fictional history, as it comes from the Windsor (Ioniaqua) universe and is a fictional building within it. In this alternate universe, the United States ceased to exist at the beginning of the Great Depression, and broke up into several smaller countries, including Cascadia (Northwest), the Waseca Federation (Northern Plains, Northern Great Lakes), Louisiana (Southern Louisiana and the Gulf Coast of Mississippi and Alabama) and the Kansas Republic (Missouri, Nebraska, Kansas, Southern Illinois), among others. The Kansas Republic was formed in 1931 at a convention held in Kansas City at the city auditorium, and was formed from the member states of Nebraska, Kansas (which became known as Wichita after the convention), Missouri, Olathe and Shawnee, and with representatives from the cities of Kansas City, Wichita, Omaha, Lincoln, St. Louis, Springfield, Columbia, Jefferson (formerly known as Cairo), Topeka and Paducah. The convention agreed upon setting up a federal state to unify the member states, and designated Kansas City as the official capital city. The Kansas Republic started construction on this large Prairie/Art Deco-style Capitol Building in Kansas City, Olathe, in 1934, though construction was slow and was only half-complete by the start of World War II in 1940, missing the central tower and with the outer ring incomplete. Construction was halted until the war was over. This was due to the countries of North America banding together and directing their resources to fight off the collective threat of foreign conquerers from Europe and Asia, and in 1948, construction resumed and was completed in 1952. Today, the Kansas National Capitol remains an icon of the Kansas Republic, and one of the most prominent buildings on the Kansas City Skyline. Feel free to use this model as you see fit, on the condition that you contact me first so I know where it is being used (I'd love to see it wherever it ends up), and give me a mention or credit wherever it is used or published. #CapitolBuilding #PrairieStyle #HistoricArchitecture #Kansas