Award Type: Merit Award

Awards of Excellence:
Klock’s Grocery & Independent Laundry

Following the death of Helmer Klock, R.M. Reeves, a well-known local grocer, purchased the property and operated the store as Reeves Grocery until 1959. After Reeves Grocery, the store was converted by Ed Elam to a laundry facility for the Independent Laundry and Dry-Cleaning Company. Elam’s company had been founded in Lawrence in 1930, and …

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Citizens National Bank – Emporia

Citizens National Plaza & Lofts is a multi-use adaptive reuse project with multi-family residential and commercial use components in downtown Emporia, KS. Before the project, the building housed a bank on the first floor and basement levels while the upper four stories were rented office spaces. The multi-family portion of the project includes 20 units, …

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Chase County Courthouse

2009: The Chase County Courthouse Interior Project in Cottonwood Falls received a Rehabilitation Medallion Award Rehabilitation restored the courtroom and preserved character-defining features while making the building usable as a modern courthouse. 2021: As Chase County is largely a rural setting, the Courthouse is one of its more grandiose structures, designed by the architect John …

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Whipple House

This project preserved the 1887 former residence of John and Eva (Dalton) Whipple, an 1887 contributing property part of the Dalton Gang Hideout and Museum in the city of Meade. Eva (Dalton) Whipple was sister to the famed outlaw Dalton brothers known for their robberies of trains and banks. The Whipple House faces west toward …

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United Telephone Building

The 1931 Telephone Building is located on the southeast corner of Main and 10th Streets.  At the time the building was constructed, Main Street was a primary thoroughfare, Main Street brewing U.S. North Highway 40 in 1931 and changed to State Highway 24 in January 1936, remaining until the early 1940’s when Highway 24 was …

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Baccus Hatchery

The Baccus Hatchery is one of the earliest buildings in Lincoln dating to 1885. It’s served a number of businesses ranging from a hatchery, drug store, hardware store, printing shop, millinery and insurance agency. The project included:  Clearing out all collapsing portions of the building and reconstructing them, stabilizing the rear masonry wall, replacing the …

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Seven Dolors Catholic Parish

The weekend of April 14th/15th, 2018 Fr. Kerry gave an update on the Church Renovation Project. If you missed it, here is the update. “I am here to give an update on our Church Renovation. This process began over three years ago. One of the driving forces behind our renovation is that in less than …

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Orville Huntress Building

Although various sources give this building a construction date of 1883, evidence suggests construction may have begun prior to 1881. Commissioned by Stingley and Huntress, they were listed as the building’s occupants in 1886.  The building was occupied by the post office in 1894.  The owners expanded the building between 1885 and 1890.  In 1886, …

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Wilcox School

Built in 1886, Wilcox School District 29 is significant as one of only a few remaining rural school houses in Trego County and one of a few remaining native limestone one-room schools left in the United States. The school served Wilcox Township for sixty years. District 29 was eventually consolidated with other rural districts and …

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North Broadway School

The North Broadway School building is a great example of a ‘modern elementary’ City School.  The building, designed by prolific school architect Charles A. Smith in 1922, retains a majority of the character defining features of schools built in this time period. After years of sitting vacant and in disrepair, Exact Partners took on the …

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