WI St.Louis was made the US capital?

In the 1870's there was a movement to make St. Louis the new location for the US capital as it was a more centralized location in the country.

Would a US capital in the midwest have made sense or still does more so than one on the eastern seaboard?
 
In the 1870's there was a movement to make St. Louis the new location for the US capital as it was a more centralized location in the country.

Would a US capital in the midwest have made sense or still does more so than one on the eastern seaboard?

We can fly across the country in a few hours now and communicate instantly. Not as important to have a central location.

I would like to see headquarters for federal departments distributed throughout the country but that's more to keep the higher level employees from seeing themselves as a ruling class and the rest of us as peons.
 
We can fly across the country in a few hours now and communicate instantly. Not as important to have a central location.

I would like to see headquarters for federal departments distributed throughout the country but that's more to keep the higher level employees from seeing themselves as a ruling class and the rest of us as peons.
I agree and I think it way to revialtes falling cites it would also save the federal government big bucks
 
This would have a huge impact on St. Louis as a city. It's very possible that the 1893 city-county divorce would happen early with the cession of land to form a federal capital, but that also likely means that St. Louis itself gets a much more densely populated urban center due to a desire to be in the proximity of the federal government. I would assume that some kind of l'Enfant-style rebuilding project would be carried out to turn St. Louis into a national capital, which would have an interesting impact on the cityscape itself - would they want to emulate the grand boulevards and Palladian architecture of the monuments of DC, or perhaps it becomes a Queen Anne/Italianate/Neo-Gothic mishmash that only the gilded age could pull off. Almost certainly it becomes a hub of railroads, and perhaps this would impact Reconstruction and southern industrialization with railroad magnates connecting a triangle of nearby factories, the federal capital, and Texas oil fields.
 
This would have a huge impact on St. Louis as a city. It's very possible that the 1893 city-county divorce would happen early with the cession of land to form a federal capital, but that also likely means that St. Louis itself gets a much more densely populated urban center due to a desire to be in the proximity of the federal government. I would assume that some kind of l'Enfant-style rebuilding project would be carried out to turn St. Louis into a national capital, which would have an interesting impact on the cityscape itself - would they want to emulate the grand boulevards and Palladian architecture of the monuments of DC, or perhaps it becomes a Queen Anne/Italianate/Neo-Gothic mishmash that only the gilded age could pull off. Almost certainly it becomes a hub of railroads, and perhaps this would impact Reconstruction and southern industrialization with railroad magnates connecting a triangle of nearby factories, the federal capital, and Texas oil fields.


Oh, I'd love to see what they'd build.
 
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