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Missouri Valley Special CollectionsThe Kansas City Public Library | 14 W. 10th St. | Kansas City, MO 64105 | 816.701.3427 | kchistory.org
Boley Building12th and Walnut Streetscompleted 1908
By Ann McFerrinThe Boley Building, built in 1908, is the design of Louis Curtiss, a talented and eccentric architect originally from Canada. It is located on the northwest corner of 12th and Walnut in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. The design of the building is very significant, as it differed greatly from styles of buildings in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It is one of the earliest examples in the world of metal-glass curtain wall construction. With this design, it appears that a transparent glass wall encloses the structure of the building as opposed to the building supporting the windows. Steel and reinforced concrete form the support to walls of glass. This type of building is considered commonplace today, as used in many modern
skyscrapers, but at the time the Boley Building was built, it was a most uncommon style.Louis Curtiss was born in Ontario, Canada in 1865. He arrived in Kansas City about 1890 after studying at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and travelling in Europe. A private person, he rarely talked about his childhood. He went into business with architect Frederick Gunn for a few years, but the partnership later dissolved and Curtiss went out on his own. At the time the building was constructed, the property was owned by two entities. One was the Atkins Trust and the other was the Walpole Estate. In 1866, James Burris Atkins bought the north part of the property (about 50 feet) for $500. Although Atkins was in the milling business, he made a great deal of money in ownership of various parcels of real estate downtown. In 1880, Richard C. Walpole purchased the southern portion of the property (about 40 feet) for $14,800. Mr. Atkins died in 1886, leaving his property to his widow, Mary McAfee Atkins. When Mary McAfee Atkins died in 1911, she left money in her will to help fund a “Museum of Fine

Missouri Valley Special Collections
The Kansas City Public Library | 14 W. 10th St. | Kansas City, MO 64105 | 816.701.3427 | kchistory.org
Arts.” Monies made through the sale of her portion of the Boley Building (in 1915) and other properties were later incorporated with those of William Rockhill Nelson to create what is now the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.Charles N. Boley’s clothing business was located at 10th and Main from 1904 until 1909. Formerly a newspaper editor, he became a very successful businessman. He announced the construction of a new building for his Boley Clothing Company in 1908 to be built on property he had leased for 99 years at 12th and Walnut. There was a saloon on the property at the time, but that was cleared off and construction began July 1908.In preparation, an innovative method was used for excavation of the ground. Instead of using horses and wagons to carry unneeded “dirt up a steep incline out of the excavated area” away from the construction site, boxes of dirt were taken out by a derrick, with the horses and wagons remaining on the street level. There had been previously a building with an all-glass front built in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1899, but because of fragility, it collapsed in 1903. When Louis Curtiss was hired to design the building for Mr. Boley, Curtiss used his own skills as an engineer and architect to develop the innovative design. The larger glass area provided a better view of merchandise for sale inside the building. In addition, rolled steel columns were used for the first time in the construction, as opposed to the earlier use “of steel plates riveted together.” There was over 15,000 square feet of glass in the façade. The floors are cantilevered, which means they are anchored on one end and project from the attached point. The façade is hung
from the cantilevered portions, with the support columns back away from the façade.

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Missouri Valley Special CollectionsThe Kansas City Public Library | 14 W. 10th St. | Kansas City, MO 64105 | 816.701.3427 | kchistory.org
Boley Building12th and Walnut Streetscompleted 1908
By Ann McFerrinThe Boley Building, built in 1908, is the design of Louis Curtiss, a talented and eccentric architect originally from Canada. It is located on the northwest corner of 12th and Walnut in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. The design of the building is very significant, as it differed greatly from styles of buildings in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It is one of the earliest examples in the world of metal-glass curtain wall construction. With this design, it appears that a transparent glass wall encloses the structure of the building as opposed to the building supporting the windows. Steel and reinforced concrete form the support to walls of glass. This type of building is considered commonplace today, as used in many modern
skyscrapers, but at the time the Boley Building was built, it was a most uncommon style.Louis Curtiss was born in Ontario, Canada in 1865. He arrived in Kansas City about 1890 after studying at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and travelling in Europe. A private person, he rarely talked about his childhood. He went into business with architect Frederick Gunn for a few years, but the partnership later dissolved and Curtiss went out on his own. At the time the building was constructed, the property was owned by two entities. One was the Atkins Trust and the other was the Walpole Estate. In 1866, James Burris Atkins bought the north part of the property (about 50 feet) for $500. Although Atkins was in the milling business, he made a great deal of money in ownership of various parcels of real estate downtown. In 1880, Richard C. Walpole purchased the southern portion of the property (about 40 feet) for $14,800. Mr. Atkins died in 1886, leaving his property to his widow, Mary McAfee Atkins. When Mary McAfee Atkins died in 1911, she left money in her will to help fund a “Museum of Fine

Missouri Valley Special Collections
The Kansas City Public Library | 14 W. 10th St. | Kansas City, MO 64105 | 816.701.3427 | kchistory.org
Arts.” Monies made through the sale of her portion of the Boley Building (in 1915) and other properties were later incorporated with those of William Rockhill Nelson to create what is now the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.Charles N. Boley’s clothing business was located at 10th and Main from 1904 until 1909. Formerly a newspaper editor, he became a very successful businessman. He announced the construction of a new building for his Boley Clothing Company in 1908 to be built on property he had leased for 99 years at 12th and Walnut. There was a saloon on the property at the time, but that was cleared off and construction began July 1908.In preparation, an innovative method was used for excavation of the ground. Instead of using horses and wagons to carry unneeded “dirt up a steep incline out of the excavated area” away from the construction site, boxes of dirt were taken out by a derrick, with the horses and wagons remaining on the street level. There had been previously a building with an all-glass front built in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1899, but because of fragility, it collapsed in 1903. When Louis Curtiss was hired to design the building for Mr. Boley, Curtiss used his own skills as an engineer and architect to develop the innovative design. The larger glass area provided a better view of merchandise for sale inside the building. In addition, rolled steel columns were used for the first time in the construction, as opposed to the earlier use “of steel plates riveted together.” There was over 15,000 square feet of glass in the façade. The floors are cantilevered, which means they are anchored on one end and project from the attached point. The façade is hung
from the cantilevered portions, with the support columns back away from the façade.

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**tomt** · January 30th, 2022, 11:08 PM

**tomt** · January 31st, 2022, 01:52 PM

The aim of each and every person’s life was “to achieve long-term growth and prosperity” for this enterprise – in other words, to protect and increase the wealth of the capitalist elite.
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This all became even clearer in 1987, when Schwab renamed his European Management Forum the World Economic Forum.
The WEF describes itself on its own website as “the global platform for public-private cooperation”, with admirers describing how it creates “partnerships between businessmen, politicians, intellectuals and other leaders of society to ‘define, discuss and advance key issues on the global agenda’.”
The “partnerships” which the WEF creates are aimed at replacing democracy with a global leadership of hand-picked and unelected individuals whose duty is not to serve the public, but to impose the rule of the 1% on that public with as little interference from the rest of us as possible.
In the books Schwab writes for public consumption, he expresses himself in the two-faced clichés of corporate spin and greenwashing.
The same empty terms are dished up time and time again. In Shaping the Future of the Fourth Industrial Revolution: A Guide to Building a Better World Schwab talks of “the inclusion of stakeholders and the distribution of benefits” and of “sustainable and inclusive partnerships” which will lead us all to an “inclusive, sustainable and prosperous future”! (1)
Behind this bluster, the real motivation driving his “stakeholder capitalism”, which he was still relentlessly promoting at the WEF’s 2020 Davos conference, is profit and exploitation.
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