Located within the Council Grove Downtown Historic District, 204 W Main Street is also listed as a contributing building on the National Register. The two-story building has a small retail space on the first floor and the second floor was converted into two apartments with the design guidance of Ben Moore Studio. To ensure code …
The historic character of the Newmark Building was not only retained, and preserved but improved. Hernly Associates, Inc performed Architectural services associated with the project. The building currently houses retail on the first level and residential apartments on the second level. Prior to an electrical fire in October 2019, an axe-throwing business was in this …
The Tribune-Monitor Building is a contributing property located in the National Register Fort Scott Downtown Historic District, which is in the central business district of Fort Scott, Kansas and the county seat of Bourbon County. The District comprises nine and one-half blocks incorporating approximately eighty-eight buildings with fifty-eight of those being contributing historic structures. On …
Located within the Emporia Downtown Historic District, 715 Commercial Street is also listed as a contributing building on the National Register. This brick two-part commercial block is two bays wide with two large window openings containing non-historic fixed aluminum-framed windows defining the bays. Before the project started, a non-historic storefront comprised of brick infill around a high-set …
The Manhattan Community House was built by Mont Green from H.B. Winter’s 1917 plans. It was the first permanently constructed community house in the United States, built to serve the soldiers during the war and the community afterward. A plaque on the building is inscribed, “1917 Manhattan Camp Funston-Community Building-A Tribute from the Citizens of …
The Wellsville Bank Building is a two-part commercial block with a single-story west addition. The original portion is a simple two-story brick building whose main ornamentation is its applied, pressed metal, High Victorian Gothic entablature on the primary façade. It is one of a few remaining commercial structures built in Wellsville in the 1880s and …
The Limerick Building was constructed in 1890 and housed the Bank of Alma that J. F. Limerick owned with his brother, G.W. Limerick of Wamego. The building was also known as the Limerick and Crafts block, as druggist, Fred Crafts, joined the building venture and operated his drug store in the south building in the …
The Smith Building has been occupied by many different businesses throughout its time. The earliest record of that location states it was an attorney’s office, when Walters redesigned the building, it was used for a furniture store. From there the building was converted to hardware stores, a clothing store, and for a time was used …
The HD Lee Mercantile Company Building, the north building in the complex, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and Register of Historic Kansas Places in 2008. The entire complex is nationally significant in the areas of Commerce and Industry because of the building’s association with Henry Daniel Lee. Lee founded the HD …
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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