The Bonner Springs Government Services Center (GSC) unites the city’s operational services into one complex that blends historic architecture with modern amenities. The project involves a full city block in downtown Bonner Springs and includes two buildings – one old and one new. The project team transformed the historic 1918 school building, listed on both …
Located within the Emporia Downtown Historic District, 714-718 Commercial Street is also listed as a contributing building on the National Register. This brick two-part commercial block occupies a triple-width lot and the building is six bays wide. Before the project, paired upper-story window openings define the bays, each of which contained brick infill. Four brick piers define …
Located within the Emporia Downtown Historic District, 715 Commercial Street is also listed as a contributing building on the National Register. This brick two-part commercial block is two bays wide with two large window openings containing non-historic fixed aluminum-framed windows defining the bays. Before the project started, a non-historic storefront comprised of brick infill around a high-set …
The historic Immaculata High School was originally constructed in 1922. From 1923-2017, the Sisters of Charity provided instructions to students, until they had to officially close their doors due to continuing enrollment problems and rising tuition costs. After the building sat vacant for a number of years, slowly deteriorating, Exact Partners announced they would be …
The Wellsville Bank Building is a two-part commercial block with a single-story west addition. The original portion is a simple two-story brick building whose main ornamentation is its applied, pressed metal, High Victorian Gothic entablature on the primary façade. It is one of a few remaining commercial structures built in Wellsville in the 1880s and …
Mike has dedicated much of his career to the advancement of historic preservation in Kansas through the establishment of tax credits in support of historic preservation. He was involved in helping to shape Kansas legislation to promote preservation by testifying during the review process for statue #79‐32,211, which started the Kansas preservation tax credit program. …
The adaptation of the church to meet the community’s needs over time is a markedly unique component of its history, and evidence of its importance to rural residents. The church remained an active meeting spot throughout the 1960s, 70s, and 80s until interest and resources for maintenance dwindled. In the mid 2010s, interest in restoring …
Citizens National Plaza & Lofts is a multi-use adaptive reuse project with multi-family residential and commercial use components in downtown Emporia, KS. Before the project, the building housed a bank on the first floor and basement levels while the upper four stories were rented office spaces. The multi-family portion of the project includes 20 units, …
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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