School – Kansas Preservation Alliance

Awards of Excellence:
Dyche Hall

Year(s) Listed: • 2024 | City/Town: • Lawrence

In 2017, the University of Kansas began extensive preservation work on Dyche Hall (also known as the Natural History Museum). Dyche Hall was designed by the architecture firm Siemen & Roots and completed in 1902. Upon commencement of the preservation work in 2017 on Dyche Hall, it was discovered that the eight unique grotesque statues …

Endangered:
Lincoln High School

Year(s) Listed: • 2022 • 2023 | City/Town: • Lincoln

Since 1922, the former Lincoln High School has stood as a cornerstone of the community at the south end of 4th Street. Although it has largely sat vacant since the last class graduated from it in 1996, a group of local citizens organized the 1922 Foundation, a non-profit 501c(3), to purchase the building and work …

Endangered:
Peace Memorial Auditorium

Year(s) Listed: • 2013 | City/Town: • Manhattan

Renovation planned to eliminate the stages and permanent seating to create offices and additional basketball courts. UPDATE! January 2015 On Dec. 16th, the Manhattan City Commission awarded a contract to Cheney Construction for both the City Hall Parks and Rec. office expansion project and for the improvements to the Peace Memorial Auditorium, which include air …

Endangered:
Kansas State University Conservatory

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

The oldest statewide and one of only a few known to be standing in Kansas, this Gothic Revival-inspired plant conservatory dates to 1908. The structure has been preliminarily determined eligible for listing in the National Register of historic places and is thus eligible for rehabilitation tax credits and possibly grant monies. Unfortunately, the structure suffers …

Endangered:
Sumner Elementary School

Year(s) Listed: • 1996 • 2009 | City/Town: • Topeka

Constructed in 1936 this Art Moderne style building is the school Oliver Brown’s daughter was denied admission to in the historic Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in 19554.

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:
Ottawa Middle School

Year(s) Listed: • 1998 | City/Town: • Ottawa

Photo BY: By Nja1985 – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=33751700 The Ottawa High School and Junior High School, located at 526 and 506 S. Main St. respectively, are the historic former high school and junior high school in Ottawa, Kansas. The high school was built in 1917, while the junior high school was built from 1927 to 1928; an enclosed hallway …

Endangered:
Ferrell Hall at Benedictine College

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

Photo by Benedictine College Completed in 1893, Elizabeth Hall served as the original Abbey for the Benedictine monks. It first became used as a residence hall in 1929, when it was known as Freshman Hall. It was completely renovated in 2001. Now called Elizabeth Hall in honor of Elizabeth Ferrell, it currently houses 152 women …

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