Springfield (The Simpsons) endowed with flippered mutants. In the Season 25 episode "Homerland", he comments that the air conditioning system has never worked properly. In one episode, Mr. Burns mentions that he owns the electric company as part of his power monopoly. The design and folly of Springfield Nuclear Power Plant is often rumored to be based on the troubled Trojan Nuclear Power Plant (closed in 1993 due to defects) near Matt Groening's home town of Portland, Oregon, or the Hanford Site in southeastern Washington. However, Antonia Coffman, Groening's publicist, has said that the Springfield plant's design is generic and that "the Springfield
Mid-Town Historic District (Springfield, Missouri) Mid-Town Historic District (Springfield, Missouri) Mid-Town Historic District is a national historic district located in Springfield, Missouri, United States. The district encompasses 455 contributing buildings, 8 contributing structures, and 7 contributing objects in a predominantly residential section of Springfield. The district developed between about 1871 and 1952, and includes representative examples of Late Victorian, Colonial Revival, and Bungalow / American Craftsman style architecture. Located in the district are the separately listed Bentley House and Stone Chapel. Other notable buildings include buildings on the Drury College campus, Central Christian Church (1926), St. Johns Episcopal Church (1886), Mary S. Boyd School (1911),