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1921: Vault door arrives. When the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City moved to its permanent headquarters at 925 Grand Boulevard, a 100,000-pound vault door was installed to provide safekeeping for the bank's valuables.
Manufactured by the Mosler Safe Co. in Hamilton, Ohio, the door was shipped by rail to Kansas City. A tractor, two five-ton trucks and a team of four horses were needed to haul the door and frame the 10 blocks from the railroad yard to the Kansas City Fed. The vault door itself weighs 35 tons and the door frame weighs 15 tons. That original door is still in place, securing the 10th District's supply of currency and coin. Delivering vault doors to the new Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis two years ago was much less cumbersome. The Minneapolis Fed has four large vault doors-two doors to the currency vault and two doors to the coin vault. The combined weight of those doors is about half the weight of the Kansas City Fed's single vault door. —Patti Lorenzen |
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