Doll Museum | Marysville, Kansas

Dolls, Toys & Indian Artifacts Museum, located near the Historic Koester Block in downtown Marysville of Kansas, features more than 1,000 artisan dolls by Yolanda Bello, Robert von Essen, Patricia Rose, and many other artists. In addition to dolls, The Doll Museum’s collection also includes Indian artifacts and antique toys.

No Comments / Jun 21.10 / Travel / by Jen-Kuang Chang

Memorial Stadium & Go Big Red | Lincoln, Nebraska

Memorial Stadium, the home of Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, is located in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s City Campus in downtown Lincoln. The stadium holds the continuing NCAA-record consecutive sellout streak that reached 300-game milestone on September 26, 2009. The stadium, designed by John Latenser, Sr., was dedicated in on October 20, 1923. After numerous expansion projects, the seating capacity of the Stadium reached 80,000 mark on 2006 with a single-game attendance mark of 86,304 set on 2009.

 

Inscriptions by Hartley Burr Alexander, a former professor of philosophy at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln also responsible for inconography in Kansas City City Hall, Rockefeller Center, and Nebraska State Capitol , can be found on the four corners of the stadium.

SE – “In Commemoration of the men of Nebraska who served and fell in the Nation’s Wars.”
SW – “Not the victory but the action; Not the goal but the game; In the deed the glory.”
NW – “Courage; Generosity; Fairness; Honor; In these are the true awards of manly sport.”
NE – “Their Lives they held their country’s trust; They kept its faith; They died its heroes.”

Additionally, “THROUGH THESE GATES PASS THE GREATEST FANS IN COLLEGE FOOTBALL” was inscribed in the eastern façade of Memorial Stadium.

No Comments / Jun 17.10 / Travel / by Jen-Kuang Chang

Lincoln Amtrak Station (LNK) & California Zephyr

The Lincoln Amtrak Station (LNK), located in 201 North 7th Street, was constructed in 1926. This brick station is the second busiest Amtrak station in Nebraska with 10,968 boarding and alighting rate in 2009. It is served daily by the California Zephyr (“Silver Lady”) passenger train route which connects Chicago, Illinois to Emeryville, California.

No Comments / Jun 14.10 / Travel / by Jen-Kuang Chang

St. Charles Borromeo Church | St. Charles, Missouri

St. Charles Borromeo Church, located at 601 N. Fourth Street in St. Charles, Missouri, is named after Saint Charles Borromeo (Carlo Borromeo) of the Counter-Reformation period and is the third oldest parish in the St. Louis Archdiocese. The original church, dedicated in 1791, was moved to its current location in 1869. The brick church’s structure, damaged during a storm in 1915, was reconstructed in 1916.

No Comments / Jun 13.10 / Travel / by Jen-Kuang Chang

Iowa State Capitol | Des Moines, Iowa

Since I was about 90 minutes ahead of the scheduled meeting in the trendy East Village in downtown Des Moines, I decided to walk to the Iowa State Capitol to redeem my unexpected free-travel-minutes. From the East Village, the Capitol’s colossal five-dome structure, fused with bravura architectural details, and its magnificent golden dome looked like a gigantic democracy fortress of sort with Anton Bruckner’s Symphony No. 7 soundlessly sounded in the background. Pretty imposing, I thought.

The Iowa State Capitol, located in the state capital of Des Moines, was constructed between 1871 and 1886 to replace an old five-story brick building that was then housing the Iowa legislature. The current capitol building features five domes, Grand Staircase, Senate Chamber, House of Representatives’ Chamber, State Library, Capitol Café, and display cases of gowns belonged to 42 first ladies of Iowa and battle flags from the Civil War, Spanish-American War and World War I. Featured art works include mosaic panels created by Frederick Dielman and statuses in the rotunda created by S. Cottin.

 

No Comments / Jun 13.10 / Photo, Travel / by Jen-Kuang Chang