Central Kansas – Page 8 – Kansas Preservation Alliance

Awards of Excellence:
Geary County Courthouse

Year(s) Listed: • 2000 | City/Town: • Junction City

The 2000 awards ceremony was held at the Carnegie Arts Center in Leavenworth on March 31, 2000, in conjunction with the annual Statewide Preservation Conference. For the second yearSouthwestern Bell provided a generous grant to underwrite the event.

Awards of Excellence:
First United Methodist Church – Manhattan

Year(s) Listed: • 2000 | City/Town: • Manhattan

Awards of Excellence:
The Riley County Courthouse

Year(s) Listed: • 2000 | City/Town: • Manhattan

The 2000 awards ceremony was held at the Carnegie Arts Center in Leavenworth on March 31, 2000, in conjunction with the annual Statewide Preservation Conference. For the second years Southwestern Bell provided a generous grant to underwrite the event.

Endangered:
Strong City Opera House

Year(s) Listed: • 2000 | City/Town: • Strong City

Photo from Strong City Preservation Alliance One of the few true opera houses left in Kansas and the mid-west region. Unfortunately, the city has been forced to declare this structure a dangerous building and has advocated its demolition. However, recent interest in the building as a tourism destination may have encouraged the city to reconsider. …

Endangered:
Bartell House

Year(s) Listed: • 1998 • 2000 | City/Town: • Junction City

Featured Image from: https://www.homesteadks.org/bartell-pl-junction-city2.html 2000 Update: This National Register property is an 1880 hotel at the main intersection of the city. During it’s life it has been home to many famous and infamous guests and served as the social center of the community for many years. It is currently facing demolition unless funds can be …

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.

Awards of Excellence:
J. J. Krehbiel Carriage Factory

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

Carriage Factory Art Gallery’s history can be traced back to 1883, when John Jacob (J.J.) Krehbiel founded a carriage factory on the site where the gallery is now located. A descendant of Swiss Mennonites, he and wife Anna and children had moved to Kansas from Iowa in 1879. When he constructed a two-story wagon and carriage …

Endangered:
Rural Churches of Kansas

Year(s) Listed: • 1998 • 2009 | City/Town: • Central Kansas • Eastern Kansas • Northern Kansas • Southern Kansas • Western Kansas

Rural churches all over the State of Kansas are in danger of disappearing. With smaller rural communities finding it harder and harder to keep their incoming revenue sustainable the upkeep of church buildings has become harder to maintain. In addition these communities are losing population faster than they can repopulate leaving congregations to die out …

Endangered:
Rural Schoolhouses of Kansas

Year(s) Listed: • 1998 | City/Town: • Central Kansas • Eastern Kansas • Northern Kansas • Southern Kansas • Western Kansas

Schoolhouses all across the state of Kansas are in danger of being turned to dust. Many of our one room schoolhouses, left vacant in the 1960s-1980s during consolidation and funding changes within the government have been abandoned for so long most are a shell of what they used to be. Rural high school buildings vacated …

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 …

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