City: Pittsburg

Awards of Excellence:
The Besse Hotel

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

The Besse Hotel is largest building in southeastern Kansas and the most recognizable visual landmark from the outskirts of Pittsburg. The 12-story grand hotel was designed using traditional three-part building form, popular Late Gothic Revival ornamentation and modern ziggurat massing. It opened to the public in 1927, remained in business until 1979 and was later …

Endangered:
Colonial Fox Theatre

Year(s) Listed: • 2007 • 2008 | City/Town: • Pittsburg

Opened in 1920 as the Colonial Theatre, this Italian Renaissance Revival Building features Beaux Arts details and is the only remaining theater in Crawford County from the `Movie Palace’ decade of the 1920’s. Prominent local builder, Asa Messenger modeled the building after a theater in Kansas City and local craftsmen produced the stone, steel and …

Awards of Excellence:
Mary Kay Caldwell

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

Save Our Stairs” Committee Pittsburg Mary Kay Caldwell, President

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Pittsburg Public Library

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

The Pittsburg Public Library first opened its doors in January 1902 when the west wing of the city office building was used to house a small collection of books. The citizens of Pittsburg quickly realized the value of a public library and in 1907 the Library Board of Trustees began looking for ways to secure …

Endangered:
Stilwell Hotel

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

Picture by: TravelKS.com The hotel was built in 1890. The non-profit Stilwell Hotel Heritage and Education Foundation bought the building this summer during a foreclosure sale. The building has been winterized to protect it from the elements but the Stilwell Hotel foundation will have to stabilize the front of the building by next spring. The …