City: Emporia

Awards of Excellence:
Baldwin Motor Company Building

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 …

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Awards of Excellence:
715 Commercial Building

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 …

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Awards of Excellence:
Citizens National Bank – 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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Awards of Excellence:
Emporia Main Street

During the 2009 Legislative Session, the State Historic Tax Credit Program was cut. Because of outdated information, it was essential that better information regarding the economic impact of historic preservation projects on local economics be provided. Emporia Main Street was a key player in the advocacy team that worked lobby the Kansas legislature to restore …

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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, …

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