Commercial – Page 2 – Kansas Preservation Alliance & Abandoned Atlas Foundation

Endangered:
Bethany Place Landscape

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

This year’s list includes eight historic places, including the Bethany Place Landscape in Topeka, Kansas. Started in the 1860s as the College of the Sisters of Bethany, Bethany Place was the first women’s college in Kansas. Georgia Neese Gray, the first female US Treasurer is one of the college’s most notable alumnae. The present day campus still retains …

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Biggs Building

Year(s) Listed: • 2005 | City/Town: • Glasco

The Biggs Buildings is a small 1-story limestone building on a prominent corner of Glasco. The façade, with its cast iron posts manufactured by Great Western in Leavenworth, appears relatively intact. However, closer examination reveals ceiling material hanging into the interior as a result of roof leaks. The limestone walls are in great need of …

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Pottawatomie County Fair Pavilion

Year(s) Listed: • 2004 | City/Town: • Onaga

The octagonal exhibition hall was built in 1921. Onaga was a thriving railroad town and the county fair was one of the most important social events of the year. When this unique structure is restored, it will contain exhibits to show our increasingly urban population what the fair meant to the farmers, ranchers, and their …

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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. …

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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 …

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Belle Springs Creamery and Produce Building

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

Photo Courtesy of the Jeffcoat Photography Studio Museum. This longtime Abilene business actually began in the small Dickinson County town of Belle Springs, a community settled by River Brethren families from Pennsylvania. The original creamery was developed for the purpose of manufacturing butter. In 1892, a new creamery was built outside of Abilene in Prospect …

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Wiley Building

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

For more than half a century Wiley’s was the place to shop in Hutchinson. Started by Vernon Wiley in 1901 as the Rorabaugh-Wiley Dry Goods Company the store originally stocked ladies’ cloaks, jackets and underwear for men and women, domestics, linens, dress goods and notions. A.O. Rorabaugh, whose home base was in Wichita, was considered …

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