Abilene – Kansas Preservation Alliance

Awards of Excellence:
The Abilene Heritage Homes Association

Year(s) Listed: • 2009 • 2019 | City/Town: • Abilene

The Abilene Heritage Homes Association hosts an annual holiday tour of historic homes and has carried out a number of other programs to help preserve the historic character of Abilene. For over thirty years the Heritage Homes Association (HHA) has been an active public voice and resource for preservation in Dickinson County. The HHA was …

Awards of Excellence:
Abilene Pool Bath House

Year(s) Listed: • 2010 | City/Town: • Abilene

Constructed in 1937, the Abilene Pool Bath House was a project of the Works Project Administration. The pool complex was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2002 as part of the Abilene City Park Historic District under the Multiple Property Documentation Form for New Deal Era Resources of Kansas. Although the swimming …

Endangered:
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 …

Awards of Excellence:
First Presbyterian Church – Abilene

Year(s) Listed: • 1999 | City/Town: • Abilene

It was built in 1882 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. The building was destroyed by a fire on July 23, 2014.

Endangered:
Belle Springs Creamery and Produce Building

Year(s) Listed: • 1997 | City/Town: • Abilene

Photo Courtesy of the Jeffcoat Photography Studio Museum. This longtime Abilene business actually began in the small Dickinson County town of Belle Springs, a community settled by River Brethren families from Pennsylvania. The original creamery was developed for the purpose of manufacturing butter. In 1892, a new creamery was built outside of Abilene in Prospect …

City: Abilene