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In the 1880s, the Board of Trade Building was where grain merchants, brokers, and dealers gathered daily to buy and sell the wheat and corn flowing through Kansas City. This architectural drawing shows how the building's design signaled progress and trustworthiness to people conducting millions of dollars in trades.
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You step into the trading floor—the air thick with tobacco smoke and shouted bids. Men in vests cluster around the ticker machines, their pencils flying across order sheets. Outside those tall windows, railroad cars stretch toward the horizon, loaded with the harvests that built the city's fortune.
Reflect
What buildings in your town or city signal money, power, or important work happening inside?