Northern Kansas – Page 5 – Kansas Preservation Alliance & Abandoned Atlas Foundation

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Glasco Lumber Company

Year(s) Listed: • 2012 | City/Town: • Glasco

This collection of three utilitarian buildings dates to around 1903 and various lumber enterprises occupied the buildings for a near century. The office and coal storage buildings are both excellent examples of the increasingly rare False Front building type. Unfortunately the buildings have been underutilized since 1992 and vacant since 2007. The property was listed …

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Judy Billings

Year(s) Listed: • 2011 | City/Town: • Lawrence

As director of the Lawrence Convention and Visitors Bureau and the chair of the Freedom’s Frontier National Heritage Area planning committee, Ms. Billings has created an effective partnership between tourism and preservation. Freedom’s Frontier National Heritage Area is an initiative that enhances, preserves, and promotes the Territorial, Civil War, and civil rights stories of 29 …

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H. W. Gates Funeral Home

Year(s) Listed: • 2011 | City/Town: • Kansas City

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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St. Luke African Methodist Episcopal Church – Lawrence

Year(s) Listed: • 2011 • 2023 | City/Town: • Lawrence

The St. Luke African Methodist Episcopal Church, built in the style of 20th century ecclesiastical Gothic Revival Architecture, is an icon of Old East Lawrence. Constructed in 1910, this church has been an anchor in Lawrence’s African American community for 101 years. In particular, during times of racial discrimination and segregation in the early 20th …

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1120 Rhode Island

Year(s) Listed: • 2011 | City/Town: • Lawrence

The building at 1120 Rhode Island, which was listed on the National Register of Historic places on July 14, 2004, is a contributing property in the North Rhode Island Historic District and a remnant of a block once known as “Merchants Row”. This structure is a good example of vernacular architecture cobbled together over time …

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Lowell Elementary School

Year(s) Listed: • 2011 | City/Town: • Kansas City

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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Carnegie Library – Lawrence

Year(s) Listed: • 2011 | City/Town: • Lawrence

The Old Lawrence City Library (Lawrence Carnegie Library) was one of 66 Carnegie libraries built in Kansas. The building was constructed in 1904 and an addition was built in 1937. By the 1960’s the community had outgrown the building and in 1972 the city library moved to its new location leaving the Old Lawrence City …

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Standard Mutual Life Insurance Company Building

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

After a fire substantially destroyed the previous building in 1930, the Standard Mutual Life Insurance Company of Lawrence, Kansas, rebuilt on this site; incorporating the earlier foundation into a new Renaissance Revival style building. One Two Three, LLC began rehabilitation work in 2008 and the building reopened as leased offices in 2009. The building is …

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Weaver Hotel

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

This rusticated concrete block building dates to 1905 when it opened as the Weaver Hotel, which continued in operation until 1985. Known as the “pride of the Central Line,” a reference to the Union Pacific Railroad that ran through town, the building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. Rehabilitated with …

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First National Bank – Hiawatha

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

The former First National Bank building has been a local landmark in Hiawatha since its construction in 1891. This significant commercial building is a contributing resource in the National Register-listed Hiawatha Courthouse Square Historic District. The building was vacant for more than fifteen years until the Brown County Historical Society purchased the building for a …

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