“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 …
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 …
The area around the Kansas University campus in Lawrence, Kansas, has been under intense development pressure with historic residential properties being lost to large multi-unit housing complexes, commercial development, and expansion of the university itself. The Leonidas W. Coleman Furnished Rooms stands in opposition of this trend, and is a rare example of a restoration …
Standing 304 feet tall, the Kansas Statehouse is a prominent feature of the Topeka skyline. The pride Kansans took in the building of the capital is evident in the decoration and scale. The Kansas Statehouse exterior masonry restoration project began in 2007. The four-year construction project began in early 2008 and was completed December 2011. …
Built in 1904 as a four-story grocer distribution warehouse, the Poehler building has stood as one of the city’s most identifiable brick buildings of Lawrence’s East side. Given its ideal position adjacent to the railroad tracks, German immigrant Theodore Poehler built this warehouse to support his growing wholesale grocery business he started in the late …
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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