Sometimes it’s hard to avoid the toll time can take on a building. Over hundreds of years a structure can fall into disrepair and sometimes the only option is to tear it down and salvage what remains, erasing history in the process. One man is trying to save the past in Baxter Springs, and while it’s taken some time, the community is standing behind him. “It is such a symbol of what was going on in America at that time,” says Carla Jordan, Historian, “The boom bust history of Southeast Kansas is also the history of America.”
Source: KSNF/KODE
