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The City Workhouse Castle, also known as the Vine Street Workhouse Castle, has stood as a symbol of Kansas City's complex history since its construction in 1897. Located at 2001 Vine Street in the historic 18th and Vine District, the building was designed by Kansas City architects A. Wallace Love and James Oliver Hogg in the Romanesque Revival style, reflecting the popular architectural tastes of the city's upper class at the time.