United Building

Historical marker location:

300 NW 3rd Street, Abilene, Kansas

( Marker is at the intersection of NW 3rd Street and Cedar Street, on the right when traveling west on NW 3rd Street.)

Marker installed: 1976

Built 1887.

The famous novel "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote is based on a true story that took place in Holcomb, Kansas in 1959.