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Museum Artifacts Tell a Story
May 02, 2011
The bombing of the Murrah Building on April 19, 1995, damaged a total of 312 buildings in downtown Oklahoma City, fourteen of which had to be demolished. Damage totaled $652 million.
One of the many churches affected was St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, located two blocks north of the Murrah Building at 7th and Robinson. Its congregation restored the historic structure’s sanctuary, education facilities and courtyard. This stone fragment, donated to the Memorial’s Archives, is a piece of the Celtic Cross broken off the roof of St. Paul’s Cathedral by the blast. The remainder of the cross was built into the masonry in St. Paul’s Murrah Memorial Gate, which surrounds a garden courtyard.
The Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum is the repository for all things that have to do with the April 19, 1995, bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building and its aftermath. An important task of the Archives staff is to collect artifacts and documentary collections so the stories related to this event will be preserved for future generations.
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