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TheWeekInCongress.com (TM) Week Ending March 9, 2006
H.R.1047 To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study to determine the suitability and feasibility of designating the Soldiers' Memorial Military Museum located in St. Louis, Missouri, as a unit of the National Park System.
The city of St. Louis spent $6 million in 1923 for property on which to build a monument to veterans living in the southern Illinois area then found it had no money to build the memorial. Another $1 million was raised in 1935 and the Soldier’s Memorial was begun and opened in 1938.
The site is located at 1315 Chestnut in St. Louis and cost the city $185,000 per year to operate.
This bill directs the Secretary of Interior to study the suitability and feasibility of bringing the memorial into the National Park System. The study results will be reported to Congress.
Sponsor: Rep. William L. Clay (D-MO-1st) Vote: Passed House by voice vote March 5, 2007 Cost to the taxpayers: No discernible cost Earmark Certification: Not applicable to this bill. ## All Rights Reserved. © 2007 TheWeekInCongress.com(TM) No reproduction, language translation or distribution without written permission from TheWeekInCongress.com.(TM)
MORE INFORMATION (a) Findings- Congress finds as follows: (1) The Soldiers' Memorial is a tribute to all veterans located in the greater St. Louis area, including Southern Illinois. (2) The current annual budget for the memorial is $185,000 and is paid for exclusively by the City of St. Louis. (3) In 1923, the City of St. Louis voted to spend $6,000,000 to purchase a memorial plaza and building dedicated to citizens of St. Louis who lost their lives in World War I. (4) The purchase of the 7 block site exhausted the funds and no money remained to construct a monument. (5) In 1933, Mayor Bernard F. Dickmann appealed to citizens and the city government to raise $1,000,000 to construct a memorial building and general improvement of the plaza area and the construction of Soldiers' Memorial began on October 21, 1935. (6) On October 14, 1936, President Franklin D. Roosevelt officially dedicated the site. (7) On Memorial Day in 1938, Mayor Dickmann opened the building to the public.
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