Eastern Kansas – Page 7 – Kansas Preservation Alliance

Awards of Excellence:
City National Bank Building – Atchison

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

Awards of Excellence:
Lackman-Thompson Estate

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

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.

Endangered:
Leavenworth Veterans Affairs Complex

Year(s) Listed: • 1996 • 1999 | City/Town: • Leavenworth

Photo by Vickie Bach In 1884, Leavenworth was chosen as the site for a home for disabled veterans. James McGonigle was a local builder and a veteran who had been wounded in the Civil War and also designed the Riverfront Community Center in Leavenworth. At the home for disabled soldiers, McGonigle’s firm constructed 17 buildings on 650 acres of land. …

Endangered:
Old Main Building – Osawatomie State Hospital

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

Photo by: Unknown The Old Main Building was built in 1869 at a cost of $20,000. It was built to replace all of the existing structures on the Osawatomie State Hospital grounds. It was built exactly to the specifications of the “Kirkbride Plan”, having a central building and two wings, swept back in sections. The …

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:
Ottawa Middle School

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

Photo BY: By Nja1985 – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=33751700 The Ottawa High School and Junior High School, located at 526 and 506 S. Main St. respectively, are the historic former high school and junior high school in Ottawa, Kansas. The high school was built in 1917, while the junior high school was built from 1927 to 1928; an enclosed hallway …

Endangered:
Sante Fe Depot – Emporia

Year(s) Listed: • 1997 | City/Town: • Emporia

Photo by Richard Hitchcock It was originally build of limestone in 1882 in the Romanesque style. In 1925-26 the building had two wings added on in the Tudor Revival style of brick and half timbering. In the past few years suggestions have been made to use the building as a railroad museum or community center, …

Endangered:
Ferrell Hall at Benedictine College

Year(s) Listed: • 1997 | City/Town: • Atchison

Photo by Benedictine College Completed in 1893, Elizabeth Hall served as the original Abbey for the Benedictine monks. It first became used as a residence hall in 1929, when it was known as Freshman Hall. It was completely renovated in 2001. Now called Elizabeth Hall in honor of Elizabeth Ferrell, it currently houses 152 women …

Endangered:
Stilwell Hotel

Year(s) Listed: • 1993 | City/Town: • Pittsburg

Picture by: TravelKS.com The hotel was built in 1890. The non-profit Stilwell Hotel Heritage and Education Foundation bought the building this summer during a foreclosure sale. The building has been winterized to protect it from the elements but the Stilwell Hotel foundation will have to stabilize the front of the building by next spring. The …

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