Fort Scott – Kansas Preservation Alliance

Awards of Excellence:
Fort Scott Tribune – Monitor Building

Year(s) Listed: • 2023 | City/Town: • Fort Scott

The Tribune-Monitor Building is a contributing property located in the National Register Fort Scott Downtown Historic District, which is in the central business district of Fort Scott, Kansas and the county seat of Bourbon County. The District comprises nine and one-half blocks incorporating approximately eighty-eight buildings with fifty-eight of those being contributing historic structures. On …

Endangered:
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. Station

Year(s) Listed: • 2023 | City/Town: • Fort Scott

This building sits alone, vacant and abandoned on the outskirts of Fort Scott. While the building itself history is little to none that could be found it is a part of history much bigger, that of the Southwestern Bell Telephone Company. Southwestern Bell purchased this property in March 1930 and constructed the building shortly after. …

Awards of Excellence:
Common Ground Coffee Co.

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

The single story building was fully rehabilitated to bring the building from a vacant structure to a fully operational and vibrant business that enlivens the street in Downtown Fort Scott. The exterior primary stone façade (north) and the red brick secondary facades were fully repointed. The north stone façade was labeled and disassembled from the …

City: Fort Scott