The three-story commercial building at 718 S. Kansas Avenue was constructed in 1910 by local real estate man J.E. Frost. The building held professional offices and a small theater (the Cozy Theatre) into the 1950s. Two days into the new year of 2015, fire engulfed the building that shared a stone party wall to the …
The site of the Rhody Delahunty Complex in Lawrence originally served as both home and business for Rhody Delahunty, a first-generation Irish immigrant driven from his homeland during the mid-nineteenth century famine. He built his two story home in 1871, where he also ran a transfer and storage company out of a barn. He moved …
Belleville High School’s class bell rang for the last time in 2013, after 82 years of service, most recently as a middle school. Built in 1931, the school was constructed in the Collegiate Gothic style, with variegated red brick and ashlar limestone foundations and detailing. Purchased in 2013 by Pioneer Group, the school has been …
The Breezedale Monuments have marked the entrance to the early 1900s Breezedale neighborhood in Lawrence, Kansas, since 1910. The construction of the monuments and the neighborhood generated a lot of press in the local news, as the monuments would mark the terminus of the south end of the streetcar line along Massachusetts Street. Built of …
In 1872, Dr. Brewster Higley VI arrived in northern Kansas and built a cabin in which to live. Living in the middle of the plains and surrounded by their splendor, he wrote the poem “My Western Home” that eventually became the well-known cowboy song “Home on the Range.” The cabin passed from owner to owner, …
Historic preservation projects are often buildings that once served as centers for their communities. Turnhalle in Lawrence is a special example of one such building, serving as the center of the local German community, the largest immigrant group to populate Lawrence in the 19th century. Standing in frontier contrast to the more elaborate Turnhalles that still …
The Dr. E.A. Lyons House, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988, was built by Lyons in 1888 as his home, including the office for his dental practice. Lyons had arrived in Kansas in 1871 as a homesteader, and arrived in Norton by covered wagon in 1885. A prominent civic …
“None come too early, none stay too late,” Hiram Price Dillon inscribed on the entry hall fireplace mantel of his 1913 home at 9th and Harrison Streets in Topeka. He had swapped his existing home and an undisclosed amount of cash for the location. After the swap, Dillon worked to design and build a new home on the …
Multi-year projects are nothing new in the world of historic preservation, but occasionally a project comes along that spans from years into decades, with incredible results. The Brown Grand Opera House was built in 1905-1907 by “Colonel” Napoleon Bonaparte Brown, a colorful local businessman who had arrived in Concordia in 1876 from Missouri with his …
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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