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New Melbourne hotel

Commercial
1920s
c. 1927
Corner of Broadway and Maple
Verbatim Passage from Source
"the New Melbourne hotel, a brick structure at the corner of Broadway and Maple collapsed with a loss of 18 lives."

— Source: Deem's History of Butler County Missouri (referenced c. 1927)

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A hotel that collapsed during the 1927 tornado.

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