City: McPherson

Awards of Excellence:
McPherson Community Building

Year(s) Listed: • 2020 | City/Town: • McPherson

In the early 1970’s there was a push to demolish the building to open up additional space for the downtown. Community outpouring against the concept of demolishing the building ultimately led to a change in momentum to perform restoration instead of demolition. On August 6, 1974, a bond issue to renovate the building was passed …

Awards of Excellence:
McPherson Opera House

Year(s) Listed: • 2010 | City/Town: • McPherson

Listed in the National Register of Historic Places since 1972, by 1986 local residents organized the McPherson Opera House Preservation Company in an effort to save the building from destruction. Still with an uncertain future, KPA placed the building on its Most Endangered list in 1998. Rehabilitation of the 1888 McPherson Opera House began in …