Iconic figure on Capital City skyline is coming down

Photograph courtesy of Missouri American Water Company
An aerial view of Capital City Water Company from about 1960 shows the standpipe water tower in the upper right corner before it was capped in the 1980's.
Photograph courtesy of Missouri American Water Company An aerial view of Capital City Water Company from about 1960 shows the standpipe water tower in the upper right corner before it was capped in the 1980's.

For 143 years, the cylindrical white water tower on West Main Street has stood resolutely among the Capitol building, church steeples and clock towers that make up the Jefferson City skyline.