If buildings could talk, the Missouri Trust Building could fill volumes.
Located at the corner of South Ohio Avenue and West Fourth Street, the building’s story is really the story of Sedalia, punctuated by a cycle of boom and bust years beginning with the city’s place as a railroad hub in the 1880s and flowing through history to today’s efforts to reshape and revitalize the city’s downtown core.
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