Southern Kansas – Page 7 – Kansas Preservation Alliance & Abandoned Atlas Foundation

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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Awards of Excellence:
Don & Marlene Chew

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

For their hard work in ensuring the preservation of the Skinner-Lee House.

Endangered:
Allis Hotel

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

When the Allis Hotel was completed in 1929, its 17 stories made it the tallest building in Kansas, and it remained so for many years. The Allis’s art deco design was patterned after New York City’s Waldorf-Astoria, and the Allis was considered Kansas’s finest hotel. After closing in 1984, the structure deteriorated and was vandalized. …

Endangered:
Campbell Castle

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

Photo from Priceypads.com Perhaps one of the best-known buildings on the list, Campbell Castle is owned by Maye Crumm. The 28-room castle designed in the classic feudal architectural style of Scotland and England, was built in 1886-1888 by cattleman Burton Campbell. It is the only castle-style home remaining from Wichita’s building boom of the 1880’s. …

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