Central Kansas – Page 6 – Kansas Preservation Alliance & Abandoned Atlas Foundation

Endangered:
Grace Bedell Billings Home

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

When Grace Bedell was eleven years old in New York state, she wrote to candidate Abraham Lincoln suggesting that he grow a beard so he could be elected president. Lincoln requested a stop when the presidential train headed to the inaugural so that he could thank his “Little Correspondent” as he called her. Later, Grace …

Awards of Excellence:
Dr. Patricia J. O’Brien

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

Dr. Patricia J. O’Brien organized an extensive database of information about historic buildings in Manhattan. In 2008, she published “The Architects and Buildings of Manhattan, Kansas”.

Awards of Excellence:
Junction City Opera House

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

The Junction City Opera House in Junction City received a Rehabilitation Medallion Award. Constructed in 1898 and donated to the city in 1982, the building was rehabilitated to provide a venue for arts and entertainment activities.

Endangered:
Stone Arch Bridges

Year(s) Listed: • 2009 | City/Town: • Central Kansas • Eastern Kansas • Northern Kansas • Southern Kansas • Western Kansas

Stone bridges, though the most expensive way to erect a bridge, represented the strongest and most durable bridge construction method. When arranged with an arch, stone can bear an almost unlimited load making it a popular choice near mills where heavy vehicles would cross or along a major roadway into a town. Stone bridges represent …

Endangered:
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 …

Endangered:
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 …

Endangered:
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 …

Awards of Excellence:
Sentney Wholesale Grocery

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

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:
Bartell House

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

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.

Endangered:
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, …

City: Central Kansas