Eastern Kansas – Kansas Preservation Alliance

Endangered:
Tiny Jails

Year(s) Listed: • 2022 • 2023 | City/Town: • Central Kansas • Eastern Kansas • Northern Kansas • Southern Kansas • Western Kansas

It’s safe to say that Tiny Jails have become a niche at the Abandoned Atlas Foundation. Making it a journey to document tiny jails all over the state. Most built in the 1880-1920s era they were used as merely holding tanks in their later years. Some were able to survive into the 1960s but most …

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Immaculata High School

Year(s) Listed: • 2022 | City/Town: • Leavenworth

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 …

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Wellsville Bank Building

Year(s) Listed: • 2022 | City/Town: • Wellsville

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 …

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Mike Marsh

Year(s) Listed: • 2021 | City/Town: • Overland Park

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. …

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Little Stranger Christian Church

Year(s) Listed: • 2021 | City/Town: • Leavenworth

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 …

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Citizens National Bank – Emporia

Year(s) Listed: • 2021 | City/Town: • Emporia

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, …

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Atchison YMCA

Year(s) Listed: • 2021 | City/Town: • Atchison

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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Ridge Top II

Year(s) Listed: • 2020 | City/Town: • Leavenworth

Following the Section 106 Review, VALOR’s core members informed executive members of the National Trust of the district’s impending demolition and it was placed on 11 Most Endangered Historic Places list in 2000. The VA heard the community’s concerns and reviewed the proposed alternatives for the historic buildings. In 2001, the VA proposed to rehabilitate …

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Fox Theatre

Year(s) Listed: • 2020 | City/Town: • Atchison

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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Ottawa Post Office

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

Completed in 1913, the Neo-Classical Revival style Ottawa post office is a stand-alone building at the north end of Ottawa’s downtown. The adaptive re-use from an institutional use to an event space was a good fit to utilize the building’s open volumes and to revive its status as a community gathering space. This rehabilitation project …

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