ecowan – Page 5 – Kansas Preservation Alliance & Abandoned Atlas Foundation

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Parker House Hotel

Year(s) Listed: • 2009 | City/Town: • Minneapolis

Originally constructed in 1887 as a business building on the corner of Main Street in Minneapolis, Kansas, the Parker House Hotel was retrofitted into a 26 room hotel by widow Isabelle Parker in 1889. This Italianate structure had an interesting history serving as the primary meeting place for women suffragettes in the early 1900s and …

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Diskau Archeological Site

Year(s) Listed: • 2009 | City/Town: • Manhattan

Archaeological test excavations have recovered Clovis projectile points and the remains of extinct Ice Age mammoths and camels in a cultivated field near Riley, Kansas. State archeologists indicate finding mammoth and camel remains is very rare in not only the state but in North America. Access to the site is being restricted, limiting the further …

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Phillipena Strasser House

Year(s) Listed: • 2009 | City/Town: • Manhattan

Commissioned to be built in 1874 by widow Phillipena Strasser, the Strasser House is the second oldest house in Manhattan’s Ward 2 and one of few surviving examples of stone residences in the city. In an agreement with the City of Manhattan, the Strasser House will remain at its current location though the surrounding context …

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Chouteau Trading Post, Station and Post Office Site

Year(s) Listed: • 2009 | City/Town: • Shawnee

Located at the mouth of the Kaw River, this historic site in Johnson County, Kansas, was home to the first trading post, train station stop and post office for the former Monticello Township (now Shawnee). Established in 1828 by Frederick Chouteau, the site first served as a fur trading post and ferry stop along the …

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Greenwood Hotel

Year(s) Listed: • 2009 | City/Town: • Eureka

Once Eureka’s largest hotel, the Greenwood Hotel served as a popular meeting place for the rich cattle and oil traders in the 20th century. Built in 1883 and remodeled in 1926, the Greenwood Hotel is a rare example of the Spanish Revival style. Its most defining exterior features are the multicolored stucco walls and terra …

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Sumner Elementary School

Year(s) Listed: • 1996 • 2009 | City/Town: • Topeka

Constructed in 1936 this Art Moderne style building is the school Oliver Brown’s daughter was denied admission to in the historic Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in 19554.

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Kansas Barns

Year(s) Listed: • 2007 • 2008 | City/Town: • Central Kansas • Eastern Kansas • Northern Kansas • Southern Kansas • Western Kansas

Historic barns are a symbol of Kansas heritage and landscape. Of the first permanent buildings that farm families constructed, barns served a variety of functions integral to the survival and success of farms. By examining the various construction techniques and materials that were used, these vernacular buildings help to tell the history of Kansas. Vacancy, …

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Bethany Place Landscape

Year(s) Listed: • 2007 • 2008 | City/Town: • Topeka

This year’s list includes eight historic places, including the Bethany Place Landscape in Topeka, Kansas. Started in the 1860s as the College of the Sisters of Bethany, Bethany Place was the first women’s college in Kansas. Georgia Neese Gray, the first female US Treasurer is one of the college’s most notable alumnae. The present day campus still retains …

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Old Abilene Town

Year(s) Listed: • 2007 • 2008 | City/Town: • Abilene

Old Abilene Town is an example of an early heritage tourism site founded to help promote the western heritage of the town. Following the national model of Henry Ford’s Greenfield Village, Old Abilene Town represents a collection of buildings that were moved from their original sites in the early 1960s. Though the practice of moving …

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Kansas Homesteads

Year(s) Listed: • 2007 • 2008 | City/Town: • Central Kansas • Eastern Kansas • Northern Kansas • Southern Kansas • Western Kansas

The Homestead Act of 1862 made much of Kansas available for settlement. The Act provided farmers with 160 acres of land, provided they would live on the land for five years and improve it. Many of these settlers began in sod houses and then built frame or stone buildings depending on available local materials. Most …

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