Class: School

Awards of Excellence:
Horace Mann Elementary School

Horace Mann Elementary School was built in 1909, designed by William W. Rose, the architect for the Kansas City, Kansas School District. Built during the height of the Progressive Era, the Classical Revival styled building includes features of the era’s education reforms, like tall windows for plenty of natural daylight, and art, music, kindergarten, and …

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Murray Hill School

In 2009, the USD 413 merged four of its elementary schools to create the Chanute Elementary School. As a result, schools like the 1951 built Murray Hill Elementary School stood vacant. With 30,580 square feet available on a 4-acre site, it did not stand vacant for long. With its Mid-Century Modern  simplistic original concrete panel …

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McCormick School Museum

Built in 1890, and the reflective half constructed in 1910, the McCormick School is still owned and maintained by the Unified School District 259 of Wichita. This makes the building the oldest school in Wichita. Having recently undergone re-pointing work on the native limestone and weatherproofing around the foundation, the project has been submitted this …

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KCI Soccer Club, Kansas City High School Gymnasium and Laboratory

The 3-story structure was built in 1923 as part of the Kansas City High School by association.  Interestingly, the Gymnasium and Laboratory facility was built across 9th Street from the school house and was connected by an underground tunnel.  After a 1934 fire that started in the boiler room destroyed the school house on the far West Edge of downtown …

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St. Michael Catholic School

Dedicated in 1917, St. Michael Catholic School was built to withstand Kansas’ hostile environment. Constructed of native limestone and Redox brick, the two-story building served the community until the school closed in 1967. After 28 years of neglect the school building was rescued by the Collyer Community Alliance and earmarked for the community center and …

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Independence Junior High School

Independence Junior High School has functioned without interruption as a public school since it was built in 1923. The recent rehabilitation, completed in 2011, updated the facilities and spaces to meet modern programmatic and educational needs and extend the viable life of the building. The rehabilitation generally retained the school’s historic plan and finishes, reversed …

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Lowell Elementary School

Lowell Elementary School is located in the Riverview Neighborhood in Kansas City, Kansas. The school is the neighborhood landmark in and otherwise residential area and was nominated to the National Register as being representative of the renowned regional architect W.W. Rose’s work displaying an unrestrained interpretation of the Classical Revival style with Beaux Arts decorative …

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Lanesfield School

The Lanesfield School Project, Edgerton vicinity, received an Honorable Mention Award for Rehabilitation. Work on the 1869 building included stone masonary restoration, window replacement and exterior wood restoration.

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Northeast Junior High

The Northeast Junior High Project in Kansas City, Kansas received a Rehabilitation Medallion Award. Designed and built in 1922-23, the former school was rehabilitated as an income-adjusted elderly housing project.

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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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