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Landmark Center and the gangster trials
Saint Paul, Minnesota
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The old federal courthouse, a pink granite Richardsonian pile, where the Barker-Karpis gang and the Hamm and Bremer kidnappers were tried. Scheduled for demolition in the 1970s and saved by a campaign led largely by women's civic groups.
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