Historic Designation: National Historic Landmark

Endangered:
Ft. Leavenworth Garrison Homes

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

Photo credit to The Kansas State Historical Society As many as 185 homes are on the chopping block in Fort Leavenworth. These properties include grand, gabled homes and multi-family barrack housing for soldiers, dating back as far as 1919. The reason given for their proposed demolition is due to raising costs to maintain them. Originally …

Endangered:
Nicodemus, Kansas

Year(s) Listed: • 1993 • 1996 | City/Town: • Nicodemus

Photo by: unknown/Library of Congress The only remaining western Kansas town established by African Americans during the Reconstruction period following the Civil War. A report by the National Park Service indicates that “if Nicodemus is not protected and preserved…..it is inevitable that the historic structures will continue to deteriorate and eventually be razed.”