Year Listed: 2008

Awards of Excellence:
Richard Pankratz

Dick Pankratz spent 34 years at the Kansas State Historical Society and was the agency’s first full-time staff person dedicated to the historic preservation program.

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:
Ottawa Junior and High School

5th & Main Housing, LP, owner. Steve Foutch, Gastinger Walker Harden Architects. The High School building was constructed in 1917, reflecting the 20th century Collegiate Gothic motif. The 1927 junior high was constructed north of the high school, also of brick to compliment the 1917 school. The rehabilitation caps over ten years of effort by …

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Awards of Excellence:
Bartell House

Homestead Affordable Housing, owner. Now Bartell Place Senior Residences, the rehabilitation of the Bartell House was a long effort by many preservationists and other interested groups in Junction City.

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