Northern Kansas – Page 9 – Kansas Preservation Alliance

Awards of Excellence:
Ludington-Thatcher House

Year(s) Listed: • 1999 | City/Town: • Lawrence

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Awards of Excellence:
House of Representatives Hall

Year(s) Listed: • 1999 | City/Town: • Topeka

When Representative Hall was under construction in 1880, it was reported in the Topeka Commonwealth that the new west wing of the Kansas State Capitol, would feature “medallions of Kansas men who have been prominent in the history of the State, and are now gone to their final rest.” The reporter acknowledged that “the selection was bound …

Endangered:
Sauer Castle

Year(s) Listed: • 1996 • 1999 | City/Town: • Kansas City

Anton Philip Sauer immigrated to Kansas City from New York in 1868. Originally from Hessen Germany, the wealthy entrepreneur spent his younger days traveling all over South America and other countries. Finally settling down in Kansas City Anton owned around two hundred acres and picked a spot that reminded him of his homeland along the Rhine River. …

Endangered:
Rural Churches of Kansas

Year(s) Listed: • 1998 • 2009 | City/Town: • Central Kansas • Eastern Kansas • Northern Kansas • Southern Kansas • Western Kansas

Rural churches all over the State of Kansas are in danger of disappearing. With smaller rural communities finding it harder and harder to keep their incoming revenue sustainable the upkeep of church buildings has become harder to maintain. In addition these communities are losing population faster than they can repopulate leaving congregations to die out …

Endangered:
Rural Schoolhouses of Kansas

Year(s) Listed: • 1998 | City/Town: • Central Kansas • Eastern Kansas • Northern Kansas • Southern Kansas • Western Kansas

Schoolhouses all across the state of Kansas are in danger of being turned to dust. Many of our one room schoolhouses, left vacant in the 1960s-1980s during consolidation and funding changes within the government have been abandoned for so long most are a shell of what they used to be. Rural high school buildings vacated …

Endangered:
Topeka State Hospital

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

Photo by: Ralena Gordon of www.theemptyplaces.com It was determined that Topeka needed a mental institution around the 1870s, the state legislature would put up $25,000 under the condition that they wouldn’t have to buy the plot of land for it. Thanks to the donation of $12,000 from both Topeka and Shawnee County 80 acres of …

Endangered:
Carnegie Library – Osborne

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

Photo by: By Ammodramus – Own work, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=35626813 The Osborne Public Carnegie Library is a historic Carnegie library in Osborne, Kansas. It was built around 1913 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.[1] It is located at Third and Main in Osborne, the county seat of Osborne County.[3] It is Classical Revival in style, and is a one-story ted …

Endangered:
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 …

Endangered:
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 …

Endangered:
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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