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Posted on January 4 at 4:52 p.m.

I live in Baton Rouge and have been attempting to become involved in an effort to save this dome for a few years now. I wish I had seen this article sooner. I was devastated when I found out KCS quietly destroyed it without public notification. In a blind moment of shortsighted thinking they have deprived not only my children, but countless future generations the opportunity to be inspired by it.

In January 2008 it would have been 50 years old, and listed under the National Register of Historic Places. Interesting how it was demolished just two months before.

This was historically one of the most significant important buildings in Louisiana, and certainly among those in the United States of not the world. It symbolized forward thinking, human accomplishment, and Buckminster Fullers true still unrecognized genius. It will be sadly missed.

On A dome of our own