Central School Apartments LLC led this sensitive rehabilitation of the former elementary school building into apartments. The plan is very sympathetic to the existing layout, generally inserting a new apartment into each classroom, retaining the existing classroom entries and original demising walls. The gymnasium was retained as a communal area, which preserves the historic open …
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The A.J. Harwi Hardware Company Building was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021. The four-story brick and timber building reflects the wholesale and warehouse businesses that operated in Atchison and is an excellent example of an early twentieth century commercial warehouse of mill construction. The building represents the apex of …
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The Atchison YMCA has continuously served the community needs of the citizens of Atchinson. The building functioned as the city’s only YMCA facility until it closed in 2017. A new YMCA facility was constructed adjacent to the historic building, which opened in 2018. The Atchison YMCA organization continued to adapt its program and modify the …
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The Fox Theatre, built in 1949, occupies a prominent location in the middle of the 600 block of Commercial Street, the primary commercial thoroughfare in downtown Atchison. The site of the 1949 Fox Theatre illustrates a long association with the motion picture business in Atchison; prior to the nominated theater, the parcel was the location …
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This 108 year old building first served as a monastery for Benedictine monks and later as a residence hall for college freshmen. Vacant for thirty years, the building reopened in August of 2001 as a residence hall for upperclassmen following extensive rehabilitation. Architects of the project was Treanor Architects of Lawrence and J.E. Dunn Construction of Kansas …
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