Year Listed: 2013

Awards of Excellence:
Wells P. Bailey Log House

The Wells P. Bailey House represents a strong tie to the Native American history of Osage county and the city of Lyndon. The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 began displacing Euro-American pioneers amidst Indian reservations. Unsurprisingly W.P. Bailey, the brother of Lyndon co- founder Judge L.D. Bailey, moved his family to a 160 acre claim in …

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Theo Poehler Mercantile

Built in 1904 as a four-story grocer distribution warehouse, the Poehler building has stood as one of the city’s most identifiable brick buildings of Lawrence’s East side. Given its ideal position adjacent to the railroad tracks, German immigrant Theodore Poehler built this warehouse to support his growing wholesale grocery business he started in the late …

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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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Luling’s City Laundry

The Luling’s City Laundry building was constructed in 1924 with the west addition completed in 1936.  Newspaper articles lauded the company’s industrial advances with a water softener promising “clothing washed in softened water has a sweet-smelling freshness that is a constant delight”.  Ironically the 1936 expansion coincided with the home washing machine industry’s eclipse of the industrial laundry …

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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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Fort Leavenworth Building 427

Built as a Progressive-Era Commercial style building, it served as the married officer’s quarters in 1921. Building 427 has seen minor physical modifications over the years. Unique to this building is the two sets of stairs within one single core – a public access wrapped around a service access. Utilizing the building’s existing layout, an …

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Fairview Apartments

Built in an uncommon U-shape configuration, this 1924 low-rise apartment structure borders downtown Wichita’s north end industrial region.  A block west of North Broadway on 18th street, the Fairview apartments exude a much greater streetscape than its previous condition thanks in part to brick cleaning and spot re-pointing of deteriorated mortar.  The inherent geometry of the buff brick …

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Ambassador Hotel – Union National Bank Building

Upon completion in 1926, the Union National Bank building, financed by Chicago’s Edith Rockefeller McCormick Trust, has proudly occupied the intersection of Main and Broadway.  The prominent fixture in Wichita’s skyline is best known for its contribution to Civil Rights history.   In July of 1958, a youth member of the NAACP was refused service at …

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