The National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial, Kansas City, Mo. http

Permanent exhibition, opened Dec. 2, 2006. 30,000 sq. ft. Mark Cox, interim executive director; Eli Paul, museum director; Doran Cart, museum curator; Jonathan Casey, archivist; Ralph Appelbaum Associates, designer. The largest and most impressive World War I memorial in the United States is the 217-foot limestone Liberty Memorial tower in Kansas City. In 1919, a community-based fund drive raised more than $2.5 million in ten days for a monument “in honor of those who served in the world war in defense of liberty and our country.” Sprawl and the loss of industry have since robbed downtown Kansas City of its preeminence, and the Egyptian revival and art deco style of the tower evokes the Jazz Age more than it does a largely forgotten and distant conflict. Even so, proud city advocates describe the monument as their Space Needle, Gateway Arch, or Golden Gate Bridge. Although the original exhibit halls still

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