Hutchinson – Kansas Preservation Alliance

Awards of Excellence:
European Hotel

Year(s) Listed: • 2018 | City/Town: • Hutchinson

The European Hotel in Hutchinson was built in 1888 and has had many different names and businesses inside its walls throughout the years. The European hotel remained a hotel through the 40’s with a consistent turnover of business on the bottom floor. Wes and Gwen Bartlett’s dream of owning a bookstore became a reality in …

Awards of Excellence:
Wiley Building

Year(s) Listed: • 2015 | City/Town: • Hutchinson

In 1912, dry goods merchant Vernon Wiley announced plans to build an 8-story concrete and steel skyscraper that would be twice as tall as any other building in downtown Hutchinson at the time. Searching for $350,000 in funding, Wiley traveled to New York with building plans in hand. After multiple rejections, he successfully piqued the …

Awards of Excellence:
Sentney Wholesale Grocery

Year(s) Listed: • 2008 | City/Town: • Hutchinson

Downtown Hutch Housing Partners, owner; Wilson, Darnell, Mann Architects. Built in 1904 as a wholesale grocery; 1938 became the home of Western Food Products producing pickles, vinegar, mustard, preserves, and other products until closing in 1983. Photo by The Hutchinson News

Endangered:
Conventional Hall

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

At the turn of the century, Huchinson was quickly growing. As the county seat, it was necessary that a convention center would need to be built to further business interests in the area. President Taft was invited to lay the cornerstone to the Convention Hall in 1911. The hall is actually built on a bridge …

Endangered:
Wiley Building

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

For more than half a century Wiley’s was the place to shop in Hutchinson. Started by Vernon Wiley in 1901 as the Rorabaugh-Wiley Dry Goods Company the store originally stocked ladies’ cloaks, jackets and underwear for men and women, domestics, linens, dress goods and notions. A.O. Rorabaugh, whose home base was in Wichita, was considered …

City: Hutchinson