Scott Joplin — popularly known as the “King of Ragtime”— lived at 2658 A Morgan Street 120 years ago. Plenty has changed since then: Morgan Street was renamed Delmar and the modest apartment and adjacent buildings were transformed into the Scott Joplin House State Historic Site. Since 1991, the museum exhibits have kept Joplin’s music and legacy alive. Cookie Jordan, site administrator at Scott Joplin House State Historic Site, dives into Joplin’s time in St. Louis, his experience being a musician in America at the turn of the century, and the many discoveries still left to unearth about this legend of music.
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