Historic Designation: Register of Historic Kansas Places

Awards of Excellence:
Leavenworth Union Depot

Beginning life in 1888 as the Leavenworth Union Depot, the Riverfront Community Center features Richardsonian Romanesque design elements, which would become popular for important buildings throughout the decade. The Union Pacific, Rock Island, Santa Fe, Missouri Pacific, Leavenworth Northern & Southern, and Leavenworth & Olathe railroads all held an interest in the depot, making it …

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When Grace Bedell was eleven years old in New York state, she wrote to candidate Abraham Lincoln suggesting that he grow a beard so he could be elected president. Lincoln requested a stop when the presidential train headed to the inaugural so that he could thank his “Little Correspondent” as he called her. Later, Grace …

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Thayer State Bank

The Thayer State Bank Project in Thayer received a Certificate of Honor for Rehabilitation. The project included brick masonry repointing and restoration of historic wooden windows.

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Junction City Opera House

The Junction City Opera House in Junction City received a Rehabilitation Medallion Award. Constructed in 1898 and donated to the city in 1982, the building was rehabilitated to provide a venue for arts and entertainment activities.

Originally constructed in 1887 as a business building on the corner of Main Street in Minneapolis, Kansas, the Parker House Hotel was retrofitted into a 26 room hotel by widow Isabelle Parker in 1889. This Italianate structure had an interesting history serving as the primary meeting place for women suffragettes in the early 1900s and …

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Commissioned to be built in 1874 by widow Phillipena Strasser, the Strasser House is the second oldest house in Manhattan’s Ward 2 and one of few surviving examples of stone residences in the city. In an agreement with the City of Manhattan, the Strasser House will remain at its current location though the surrounding context …

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Mahaska High School

Mahaska Housing Partnership, LP, owner; Steve Foutch, Gastinger Walker Harden Architects. Designed in the Collegiate Gothic Revival style opening in 1926 and closing ca. 1955. Built during the Progressive Movement of school building (1910s-1930s) in the northwestern corner of Washington County, near the center of a local agricultural trade center on the former Chicago, Rock …

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Ottawa Junior and High School

5th & Main Housing, LP, owner. Steve Foutch, Gastinger Walker Harden Architects. The High School building was constructed in 1917, reflecting the 20th century Collegiate Gothic motif. The 1927 junior high was constructed north of the high school, also of brick to compliment the 1917 school. The rehabilitation caps over ten years of effort by …

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Opened in 1920 as the Colonial Theatre, this Italian Renaissance Revival Building features Beaux Arts details and is the only remaining theater in Crawford County from the `Movie Palace’ decade of the 1920’s. Prominent local builder, Asa Messenger modeled the building after a theater in Kansas City and local craftsmen produced the stone, steel and …

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Kansas Firefighters Museum

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 …

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