Charles A. Smith

Works Smith was involved with a number of building listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. These include (and attribution with variations): Attucks School, 1815 Woodland Ave. Kansas City, Missouri (Smith, Charles A.) Bonner Springs High School, 200 East Third Bonner Springs, Kansas (Smith, Charles A.) Chambers Building, 25 E. 12th St. Kansas City, Missouri (Smith, Charles A.) Hiland Telephone Exchange Building, 1020 E. 63rd St. Kansas City, Missouri (Smith, Charles) IOOF Liberty Lodge No. 49, 16-18 E. Franklin St. Liberty, Missouri (Smith, Charles A.) Jenkins Music Company Building, 1217-1223 Walnut St. Kansas City, Missouri (Smith Charles A.) Kansas City, Missouri Western Union Telegraph Building, 100-114 E. 7th St. Kansas City, Missouri (Smith, Charles A.) Osceola Public School Building, at the junction of Fifth and Pine Sts. Osceola, Missouri (Smith, Charles A.) Professional Building, 1101-1107 Grand Ave. Kansas City, Missouri (Smith, Charles A.) Switzer School Buildings, generally bounded by Madison Ave. and Summit St., 18th to 20th Sts. Kansas City, Missouri (Smith, Charles A.) Tower of Memories, 8500 W. Twenty-ninth Ave. Denver, Colorado (Charles A. Smith, Fisher & Fisher, (John Monroe) One or more buildings in Howard Neighborhood Historic District, roughly bounded by SE 5th St., SE Green St., SE 7th St., and SE Miller St. Lee's Summit, Missouri (Smith, Charles A.) Liberty High School now Heritage Middle School, 600 W Kansas St, Liberty, Missouri. This building was re-built after a fire burned down the historic Women's Collage, a new High School was built in the same location. (Charles A. Smith)

Titanic salvage In 1914, Smith proposed a salvage idea regarding the Titanic. According to the idea it involved a custom designed unmanned submarine which would have featured electromagnets that would attach themselves to the hull of the liner. Upon attaching to the hull it would then release a buoy showing the location of the ship. Once this was done other magnets would do the same thing. His thought was that with enough magnets he could then raise the ship with winches attached to barges. His idea would have worked had it actually been known the exact condition of the ship and funding available. Most consider Smiths idea to be the most plausible of all ideas to raise the lost Titanic.