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Gwendolyn Washington, Hyde Park
When our questioner Gwendolyn was growing up in the Francis Apartments at 43rd Street and Forrestville Avenue in what is today Bronzeville, she had no idea it was designed by one of the world’s most famous architects. And it’s easy to see why.
It looked nothing like the low-slung geometric Prairie Style that Wright is best known for, nor his other famous buildings like Unity Temple in Oak Park or Fallingwater in Pennsylvania.
That’s because the Francis Apartments were designed in 1895, early in Wright’s career when his style was still heavily indebted to his onetime boss and mentor Louis Sullivan.
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Missouri House moves to establish permanent Daylight Saving Time
April 19, 2021
A postcard from 1918 promoting daylight saving time. // Courtesy of the Library of Congress
On April 14, the Missouri House gave preliminary approval to a bill that would establish permanent daylight saving time in the state under the condition that three of our eight border states do the same.
Many proponents of the change cited the inconvenience of changing clocks twice a year for seemingly arbitrary reasons. Those opposed primarily argued that students would be at higher risk under a permanent daylight saving time, where they would have to wait for the bus in the dark. Rep. Barbara Phfier, D-Kirkwood, noted that energy consumption increased in the U.S. when they tried the switch in the 1970s.
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