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Baby in the Bushes, at the Potlitzer home, 219 South Sergeant
FOR WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH, WE PRESENT A MYSTERY IN MURPHYSBURG. Abandoned baby!
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United Hebrew Congregation
United Hebrew Congregation 702 S Sergeant Ave Byzantine-style Circa 1916 Architect, Austin Allen
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Joplin First Church
501 WEST FOURTH STREET First Methodist United Church Currently Joplin First Church Garstang and Rea, architect; S.C. Jones, builder Circa 1905 Gothic Revival
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Abraham Onstott House
107 S Sergeant Avenue circa 1905 ~ Colonial Revival Palladian window
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Morgan’s Grocery Store
505 W 2nd St-Morgan's Grocer Store ca. 1934 ~ Depression era Concrete Block Commercial Building
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