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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In 1885, the Southern Kansas began to make plans for a grand new depot. Plans for a bigger, better depot The Southern Kansas Railway Company (under the ownership of the Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fe Railroad) made plans to enlarge the machine shops and roundhouse and build a bigger, more elegant depot. Workmen began excavating …
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Save Our Stairs” Committee Pittsburg Mary Kay Caldwell, President
Box City Program Center for Understanding of the Built Environment (CUBE) Prairie Village Ginny Graves, Director
The Pittsburg Public Library first opened its doors in January 1902 when the west wing of the city office building was used to house a small collection of books. The citizens of Pittsburg quickly realized the value of a public library and in 1907 the Library Board of Trustees began looking for ways to secure …
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Lackman-Thompson House (11180 Lackman Road, 1887, in Lenexa, a State Register residence which is an unusual composite of the Second Empire and Queen Anne styles.
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