Award Type: Medallion Award

Awards of Excellence:
Bartell House

Homestead Affordable Housing, owner. Now Bartell Place Senior Residences, the rehabilitation of the Bartell House was a long effort by many preservationists and other interested groups in Junction City.

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St. Anthony of Padua Roman Catholic Church

St. Anthony Church is the oldest Catholic church in Wichita still in use. In 1902 work began on the present church building and was completed in 1905. From the earliest days, the church was artistically and historically significant. The church was designated a local historic landmark in 1988. The house of worship’s architectural spirit is …

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Crancer Building

The six-story 1908 warehouse was built for the Crancer Hardware Company. They were at one time the largest supplier of tin fabrications and tools west of the Mississippi. From the 1940s to 1971 the building operated as a Montgomery Wards. All historic materials and interior configuration of the building were retained in the rehabilitation. Mechanicals, …

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Manhattan Union Pacific Depot

The Manhattan Union Pacific Depot project was a combined effort involving state and local professionals and advocates for preservation.  The project took over twelve years to complete with the final phase completed in 2006. The Kansas Union Pacific Depot  (c1901) served the community until 1984 when service to the community ceased.  The original brick single-story …

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Eisenhower Ridge

The buildings that comprise the Eisenhower Ridge project were originally built as part of a planned community for disabled soldiers from the Civil War. The campus in Leavenworth was started in 1885 and by 1890 there were 40 buildings. In 1930 the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers was incorporated into the newly created Veterans …

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The Pioneer Group, Inc.

The Pioneer Group, Inc. of Topeka received the coveted Medallion Award for Excellence for a preservation project for their work to preserve and reuse the Roosevelt-Lincoln Junior High School in Salina.  The Lincoln building was designed by William Schmitt and the Roosevelt building was designed by Charles Shaver and were built around 1917.  The two …

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Great Overland Station

The former Union Pacific Railroad Station is a grant neoclassical passenger depot, designed by noted architect Gilbert Stanley Underwood who designed at least twenty-six Union Pacific stations and depots.  It has a spectacular interior, typical of the grand stations of the early part of this century.  Once a bustling center of the capital city, the …

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Abernathy Lofts

The Abernathy Furniture Company building was constructed in 1879 and served the Leavenworth community until 1950.  By the 1990’s the building was used as a flea market.  Purchased by Allied Development of Kansas City, the building has been converted to affordable Apartments.  The architect and developer was Steve Foutch of Allied Development LLC, Straub Construction …

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Stiefel Theater for the Performing Arts

The Fox-Watson Theater opened in 1931, a lavish Art deco facility that served the Salina community until 1987. The City of Salina and the Historic Fox Theater Foundation completed restoration and reopened the theater with a sell-out concert in March 2003. Jones Gillam Architects Engineers were the architects for the project, and Norm Yenkey was …

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Santa Fe Depot – Dodge City

City of Dodge City Boot Hill Repertory Company. Stehlik-Holt Fundraising, Kansas Department of Transportation, Gossen Livingston Architects of Wichita, D&D Builders of Garden City, General Contractors Historic Dodge City Santa Fe Depot completed in 1898 housed a Fred Harvey Hotel and the “El Vaquero” dining room. The largest Rail Depot building in Kansas renovated to …

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