Independence City Hall is a classical revival-style building that serves the municipal functions of Independence for just over 100 years. It was designed in 1915 by Rose and Peterson Architects, from Kansas City, Kansas, to gather all the City departments into one structure. The building housed the city administration offices, city clerk, municipal court, city …
The Coal Creek Library Association was established in 1859; the library building was constructed in 1900 by community craftsmen and laborers. Community members and groups actively supported the library and helped maintain the building for more than 120 years. Rehabilitation of the Coal Creek Library began with a project to address moist conditions in the …
The Bonner Springs Government Services Center (GSC) unites the city’s operational services into one complex that blends historic architecture with modern amenities. The project involves a full city block in downtown Bonner Springs and includes two buildings – one old and one new. The project team transformed the historic 1918 school building, listed on both …
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 building was completely renovated to its current footprint in 1905 by the Stringley Brothers. The expansion created a number of office spaces that were occupied by various professionals over the years; these included doctors, dentists, realtors, and attorneys. When the bank moved into new facilities at 7th and Poyntz in the 1970’s, this building …
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, …
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 …
Completed in 1913, the Neo-Classical Revival style Ottawa post office is a stand-alone building at the north end of Ottawa’s downtown. The adaptive re-use from an institutional use to an event space was a good fit to utilize the building’s open volumes and to revive its status as a community gathering space. This rehabilitation project …
A critical supply point on the Santa Fe Trail, the town of Council Grove had been bypassed by both the Santa Fe and Union Pacific Railroads in the 1860s, but by 1886, the KATY and Missouri Pacific railroads had put the community’s development back on track. It was in this economic environment that the Morris …
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 …
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