Northern Kansas – Page 10 – Kansas Preservation Alliance & Abandoned Atlas Foundation

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Carnegie Library – Lawrence

Year(s) Listed: • 1996 • 1998 | City/Town: • Lawrence

Picture and Info by Carnegie Library The Carnegie building was constructed in 1904 with a grant worth approximately $27,000 from Andrew Carnegie. During the 1930’s an addition was build to accommodate the growing volume of books and materials. It served as the Lawrence public library until a new library was constructed in 1972. The Lawrence …

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Huron Building

Year(s) Listed: • 1998 | City/Town: • Kansas City

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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Kansas River

Year(s) Listed: • 1996 • 1998 | City/Town: • Kansas City • Lawrence • Topeka

Featured Image by: By Dicklyon – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=106194214 The Kaw was historically a wide, shallow, silty, slow-moving, braided river, but it has been heavily modified by flood control measures, water diversions, bank stabilization, and dredging. The Kaw’s degraded habitat has made the American River’s Most Endangered Rivers list 5 times since …

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909 Pennsylvania

Year(s) Listed: • 1997 | City/Town: • Lawrence

Created in 1873 by the railroad as worker housing, the building was built in the National Folk Style. It has not been maintained and will be lost to demolition by neglect unless a solution can be found.

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Dillion House

Year(s) Listed: • 1997 | City/Town: • Topeka

Photo from: Dillion House Built in the Italian Renaissance style the Dillon House is a rare survivor of an elite pre-World War I residential neighborhood. Its overall form and many of the character-defining features are still clearly evident today. A passionate man famous for his hospitality, Hiram Price Dillon’s robust spirit is evident throughout the …

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Nicodemus, Kansas

Year(s) Listed: • 1993 • 1996 | City/Town: • Nicodemus

Photo by: unknown/Library of Congress The only remaining western Kansas town established by African Americans during the Reconstruction period following the Civil War. A report by the National Park Service indicates that “if Nicodemus is not protected and preserved…..it is inevitable that the historic structures will continue to deteriorate and eventually be razed.”

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Old Town, Lawrence

Year(s) Listed: • 1996 | City/Town: • Lawrence

One of the most historic neighborhoods in Lawrence the area is threatened by downtown development and a proposal for an Eastern Parkway to provide easier access for cars to the downtown. https://www.livingplaces.com/KS/Douglas_County/Lawrence_City/Old_West_Lawrence_Historic_District.html

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Haskell-Baker Wetlands

Year(s) Listed: • 1996 | City/Town: • Lawrence

Photo By Sprout and the Bean at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=16386508 The Baker Wetlands (also known as the Haskell-Baker Wetlands) is a nature preserve and artificially sustained wetland,[1] spanning approximately 927 acres (3.8 km2)[2] south of Lawrence, Kansas, United States. It is associated with the Wakarusa River and sustained by levees and flood controls built in the 1990s.[3] Baker University owns 573 acres, the major portion of …

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First National Bank – Topeka

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

Photo by: Engineered Demolition Inc. Built in 1932 the structure stands vacant at 535 S. Kansasa Ave. The buildings current owner is the City of Topeka and local preservationists fear the city will want to raze it. The building is on the Register of Historic Kansas Places.

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Huron Place

Year(s) Listed: • 1993 • 1996 | City/Town: • Kansas City

Historical overview of the churches, schools, businesses, and other important sites within the boundaries of the old Huron Place cemetery in Wyandotte County. The orginal cemetery boundaries were located between 6th and 7th streets, from Minnesota Avenue to Anne Avenue, in what is now downtown Kansas City, Kansas. The land was orginally designated a burial …

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