Southern Kansas – Page 6 – Kansas Preservation Alliance

Awards of Excellence:
Kansas Firefighters Museum

Year(s) Listed: • 2002 | City/Town: • Wichita

Photo by Visit Wichita Constructed in 1909, Engine House No. 6 was the last horse-drawn fire station in Wichita. Not used as an active station since 1953, the building had been used primarily for storage. The Kansas Firefighters Museum was formed in 1993 and has rehabilitated the building, primarily through volunteer efforts. The museum is now open, exhibiting …

Endangered:
Ark Valley Lodge

Year(s) Listed: • 2000 | City/Town: • Wichita

Photo by Judy Handley Listed on the National, State and Local Registers of Historic Places this is an important African-American site in Kansas history. It is the only remaining building in Wichita’s early African-American business district and was reportedly designed by local African-American architect Josiah Walker. Sadly, the building is currently vacant and in disrepair. …

Awards of Excellence:
Frisco Water Tower

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

The 1885 Frisco Wooden Water Tower was built to service the steam locomotives, supply water for feeding stationary boilers, washing cars, and floors, cleaning out boilers, cooling ashes, fire protection, and similar purposes, at shops, engine houses, and station buildings. Friends of the Beaumont Water Tower was founded in 1989 and raised funds to preserve …

Endangered:
Thompson-Wohlschlegel Barn

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

Photo from NRHP Nomination Form The Thompson-Wohlschlegel Round Barn near Harper, Kansas is a round barn that was built during 1910 to 1913. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985, and was delisted in 2020.[1][2] It is about 80 feet (24 m) in diameter and has a three-tier domed roof which is 75 feet (23 m) tall. Its first floor …

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:
Woodson Hotel

Year(s) Listed: • 1997 | City/Town: • Yates Center

It was built in 1887. A two story limestone building on the northwest corner of the town square the hotel is within Yates Center’s Courthouse Square Historic District. A portion of the buildings west masonry wall is badly in need of repair. The hotel houses a catering business.

Endangered:
Masonic Temple – Independence

Year(s) Listed: • 1997 | City/Town: • Independence

Built in 1900 the Romanesque-style building is in the central business district of Independence and is listed on the NRHP. A fire several years ago damaged the roof and it has not been repaired. The City Commission has twice voted to demolish the building but further action is pending in court.

Endangered:
The Eaton Hotel

Year(s) Listed: • 1997 | City/Town: • Wichita

Featured image from: By UNOBUDO – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=21831188 By 1997, conditions had deteriorated to the point where the city had to take action. The hotel had recently been placed on the Kansas Preservation Alliance’s list of endangered historic buildings in Kansas. Two other buildings on the block were near collapse and seriously …

Awards of Excellence:
Bob Beardsley

Year(s) Listed: • 1994 | City/Town: • Wichita

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