Award Type: Merit Award

Awards of Excellence:
Fort Riley Main Post Residential

The Fort Riley Main Post Historic District is home to over 100 historic residences, dating from the earliest days of the fort in the 1850s through to the New Deal-era construction of the 1930s. By 2006, the homes were considered outdated and were hard to lease, with many military families choosing to live elsewhere. That …

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Awards of Excellence:
Sentney Wholesale Grocery

Downtown Hutch Housing Partners, owner; Wilson, Darnell, Mann Architects. Built in 1904 as a wholesale grocery; 1938 became the home of Western Food Products producing pickles, vinegar, mustard, preserves, and other products until closing in 1983. Photo by The Hutchinson News

Awards of Excellence:
Mahaska High School

Mahaska Housing Partnership, LP, owner; Steve Foutch, Gastinger Walker Harden Architects. Designed in the Collegiate Gothic Revival style opening in 1926 and closing ca. 1955. Built during the Progressive Movement of school building (1910s-1930s) in the northwestern corner of Washington County, near the center of a local agricultural trade center on the former Chicago, Rock …

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Awards of Excellence:
Keep Klean Building

John Belford, Waterman Properties, LLC, owner; Wilson, Darnell, Mann Architects. The 1929 building represents the early twentieth-century Commercial Style, featuring simple lines and an emphasis on fire-resistance with fire-proof materials such as reinforced concrete, brick and steel. “Keep Klean” is inscribed in the limestone above the main entrance of the building, a towel and linen …

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Awards of Excellence:
Cooper Drug Store

Brett Kappelmann, owner; William Morris Associates, Architects. Two buildings are included in the Cooper Drug Store dating from the early 1900s. Cooper Drug Store has operated as a drug store since 1922.

Awards of Excellence:
Landon House

Photo by CJ Online It is reported that Kansas Governor Alf Landon (1933-37) completed construction of the white, brick house (on Westchester in Prospect Hills) in 1937 for his wife Theo because, although he had lost the presidential election (to Roosevelt), he felt that she deserved to live in a “White House.”  Current owners David and …

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Awards of Excellence:
Geary County Courthouse

The 2000 awards ceremony was held at the Carnegie Arts Center in Leavenworth on March 31, 2000, in conjunction with the annual Statewide Preservation Conference. For the second yearSouthwestern Bell provided a generous grant to underwrite the event.

Awards of Excellence:
The Riley County Courthouse

The 2000 awards ceremony was held at the Carnegie Arts Center in Leavenworth on March 31, 2000, in conjunction with the annual Statewide Preservation Conference. For the second years Southwestern Bell provided a generous grant to underwrite the event.

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