Register of Historic Kansas Places – Page 3 – Kansas Preservation Alliance

Endangered:
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. …

Endangered:
Strong City Opera House

Year(s) Listed: • 2000 | City/Town: • Strong City

Photo from Strong City Preservation Alliance One of the few true opera houses left in Kansas and the mid-west region. Unfortunately, the city has been forced to declare this structure a dangerous building and has advocated its demolition. However, recent interest in the building as a tourism destination may have encouraged the city to reconsider. …

Awards of Excellence:
Lackman-Thompson Estate

Year(s) Listed: • 1999 | City/Town: • Lenexa

Lackman-Thompson House (11180 Lackman Road, 1887, in Lenexa, a State Register residence which is an unusual composite of the Second Empire and Queen Anne styles.

Awards of Excellence:
Frisco Water Tower

Year(s) Listed: • 1999 | City/Town: • Beaumont

The 1885 Frisco Wooden Water Tower was built to service the steam locomotives, supply water for feeding stationary boilers, washing cars, and floors, cleaning out boilers, cooling ashes, fire protection, and similar purposes, at shops, engine houses, and station buildings. Friends of the Beaumont Water Tower was founded in 1989 and raised funds to preserve …

Endangered:
Sauer Castle

Year(s) Listed: • 1996 • 1999 | City/Town: • Kansas City

Anton Philip Sauer immigrated to Kansas City from New York in 1868. Originally from Hessen Germany, the wealthy entrepreneur spent his younger days traveling all over South America and other countries. Finally settling down in Kansas City Anton owned around two hundred acres and picked a spot that reminded him of his homeland along the Rhine River. …

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:
Huron Building

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

Featured Image Credit to : Missouri Valley Special Collections, Kansas City Public Library, Kansas City, Missouri. Huron Building 1922-24 North 7th Street Trafficway, Kansas City, Kansas W. S. Frank (St. Louis), Architect J. G. Braecklein, Associate Architect Kansas City, Kansas Historic Landmark: June 28, 1983 Register of Historic Kansas Places: February 25, 1984 National Register …

Endangered:
Stilwell Hotel

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

Picture by: TravelKS.com The hotel was built in 1890. The non-profit Stilwell Hotel Heritage and Education Foundation bought the building this summer during a foreclosure sale. The building has been winterized to protect it from the elements but the Stilwell Hotel foundation will have to stabilize the front of the building by next spring. The …

Endangered:
First National Bank – Topeka

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

Photo by: Engineered Demolition Inc. Built in 1932 the structure stands vacant at 535 S. Kansasa Ave. The buildings current owner is the City of Topeka and local preservationists fear the city will want to raze it. The building is on the Register of Historic Kansas Places.

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. …

Historic Designation: Register of Historic Kansas Places