St. Joseph German Catholic Church was constructed in 1900, by a German-speaking parish founded in 1887 and populated with Volga German immigrants who first arrived in Topeka in the 1870s. Despite being well maintained throughout its 117 year existence, time was taking its toll on the historic brick masonry building. The current parish members decided …
The Carnegie 601 Library was built in 1900 as part of the prestigious collection of libraries built by the Carnegie family. The library was the first Carnegie funded building in the state of Kansas and remained the Leavenworth Public library till 1987, when it was converted to the Carnegie Arts Center. The building remained a …
The first Frisco Depot in Augusta was a wood frame building constructed in the 1880s when the railroad was first built, becoming a hub of life in the city. It was replaced in 1910 with a building made of brick masonry. An expanded freight room was built shortly afterward in 1916 in a response to …
The site of the Rhody Delahunty Complex in Lawrence originally served as both home and business for Rhody Delahunty, a first-generation Irish immigrant driven from his homeland during the mid-nineteenth century famine. He built his two story home in 1871, where he also ran a transfer and storage company out of a barn. He moved …
The Pioneer Bluffs Ranch began as a 160 acre farm settled by Charles Rogler, an Austrian immigrant, in 1859, near Matfield Green in Chase County. Over the years, the Ranch grew to encompass 2,720 acres of Flint Hills tallgrass prairie and 16 buildings at its core. The main barn that stands today was built in …
Standing as a reminder of the western trail days in Kansas, the Hays Tavern was built in 1857. Sitting straight to the Santa Fe Trail (and now askew with present day Main Street), the present building was constructed on the site of Seth Hays’ original 1847 log cabin trading post and restaurant. After an 1886 …
In 1872, Dr. Brewster Higley VI arrived in northern Kansas and built a cabin in which to live. Living in the middle of the plains and surrounded by their splendor, he wrote the poem “My Western Home” that eventually became the well-known cowboy song “Home on the Range.” The cabin passed from owner to owner, …
Beginning life in 1888 as the Leavenworth Union Depot, the Riverfront Community Center features Richardsonian Romanesque design elements, which would become popular for important buildings throughout the decade. The Union Pacific, Rock Island, Santa Fe, Missouri Pacific, Leavenworth Northern & Southern, and Leavenworth & Olathe railroads all held an interest in the depot, making it …
A highly unique building type, the W. R. Gray photography studio in St. John was built in 1900, and was the first structure in the state of Kansas built specifically as a photo studio. Containing both the studio storefront at the street and the residence at the rear, the wood framed building served continuously as …
In 1912, dry goods merchant Vernon Wiley announced plans to build an 8-story concrete and steel skyscraper that would be twice as tall as any other building in downtown Hutchinson at the time. Searching for $350,000 in funding, Wiley traveled to New York with building plans in hand. After multiple rejections, he successfully piqued the …
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