City: Kansas City

Awards of Excellence:
St Margaret’s Hospital

Ushering in the next era of historic preservation, the St. Margaret’s Lofts rehabilitation of the 1954 St. Margaret’s Hospital helped preserve an enduring example of Modernist style architecture. Constructed at a time when the medical industry was undergoing a widespread modernization following World War Two, the hospital stands as an excellent example of institutional Modernist …

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Horace Mann Elementary School

Horace Mann Elementary School was built in 1909, designed by William W. Rose, the architect for the Kansas City, Kansas School District. Built during the height of the Progressive Era, the Classical Revival styled building includes features of the era’s education reforms, like tall windows for plenty of natural daylight, and art, music, kindergarten, and …

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KCI Soccer Club, Kansas City High School Gymnasium and Laboratory

The 3-story structure was built in 1923 as part of the Kansas City High School by association.  Interestingly, the Gymnasium and Laboratory facility was built across 9th Street from the school house and was connected by an underground tunnel.  After a 1934 fire that started in the boiler room destroyed the school house on the far West Edge of downtown …

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Originally built in 1887 as a wood-framed Methodist church, the building was remodeled and enclosed in the current brick cladding around 1909. An excellent example of the Gothic Revival style, this church building was sold to the Catholic diocese in 1937 and became a cultural anchor in the historically Mexican-American neighborhood of Argentine. Unfortunately, with …

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H. W. Gates Funeral Home

The H.W. Gates Funeral Home was built in the Neoclassical style from a design by the Kansas City architect Fred S. Wilson for local undertakers Horatio and Mary Gates. The Neoclassical style was popular for buildings of this function for various reasons: to convey business importance in community; the single-family building form evoked an air …

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Lowell Elementary School

Lowell Elementary School is located in the Riverview Neighborhood in Kansas City, Kansas. The school is the neighborhood landmark in and otherwise residential area and was nominated to the National Register as being representative of the renowned regional architect W.W. Rose’s work displaying an unrestrained interpretation of the Classical Revival style with Beaux Arts decorative …

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Fairfax Bluff’s Apartments

The Fairfax Bluffs Apartments Project in Kansas City, Kansas received a Certificate of Honor for Rehabilitation. Constructed in 1943 to house civilian and government workers, this 48-building complex was adapted for contemporary affordable housing.

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Northeast Junior High

The Northeast Junior High Project in Kansas City, Kansas received a Rehabilitation Medallion Award. Designed and built in 1922-23, the former school was rehabilitated as an income-adjusted elderly housing project.

Anton Philip Sauer immigrated to Kansas City from New York in 1868. Originally from Hessen Germany, the wealthy entrepreneur spent his younger days traveling all over South America and other countries. Finally settling down in Kansas City Anton owned around two hundred acres and picked a spot that reminded him of his homeland along the Rhine River. …

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Featured Image Credit to : Missouri Valley Special Collections, Kansas City Public Library, Kansas City, Missouri. Huron Building 1922-24 North 7th Street Trafficway, Kansas City, Kansas W. S. Frank (St. Louis), Architect J. G. Braecklein, Associate Architect Kansas City, Kansas Historic Landmark: June 28, 1983 Register of Historic Kansas Places: February 25, 1984 National Register …

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