“None come too early, none stay too late,” Hiram Price Dillon inscribed on the entry hall fireplace mantel of his 1913 home at 9th and Harrison Streets in Topeka. He had swapped his existing home and an undisclosed amount of cash for the location. After the swap, Dillon worked to design and build a new home on the …
Standing 304 feet tall, the Kansas Statehouse is a prominent feature of the Topeka skyline. The pride Kansans took in the building of the capital is evident in the decoration and scale. The Kansas Statehouse exterior masonry restoration project began in 2007. The four-year construction project began in early 2008 and was completed December 2011. …
Dick Pankratz spent 34 years at the Kansas State Historical Society and was the agency’s first full-time staff person dedicated to the historic preservation program.
The former Union Pacific Railroad Station is a grant neoclassical passenger depot, designed by noted architect Gilbert Stanley Underwood who designed at least twenty-six Union Pacific stations and depots. It has a spectacular interior, typical of the grand stations of the early part of this century. Once a bustling center of the capital city, the …
After Sitting vacant for more than ten years and with few panes of glass remaining in the windows, Curtis Junior High was purchased by real estate Developers, Pioneer Group, Inc. of Topeka, rehabilitated and reopened last December as senior apartments. Architect One was the architect for the project, Woltkamp Construction the General Contractor.
Owned by Legacy of Justice Foundation serves as offices for Kansas Trial Lawyers Association; GLMP Architects, Lawrence, Kansas Building Systems, General Contractor.
Greg Allen, Chair of the Friends of the Free State Capitol, Topeka has received the Advocacy Award for outstanding efforts of preservation for the 2003 Awards of Excellence.
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