1998 – Kansas Preservation Alliance

Endangered:
Bartell House

Year(s) Listed: • 1998 • 2000 | City/Town: • Junction City

Featured Image from: https://www.homesteadks.org/bartell-pl-junction-city2.html 2000 Update: This National Register property is an 1880 hotel at the main intersection of the city. During it’s life it has been home to many famous and infamous guests and served as the social center of the community for many years. It is currently facing demolition unless funds can be …

Endangered:
Old Main Building – Osawatomie State Hospital

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

Photo by: Unknown The Old Main Building was built in 1869 at a cost of $20,000. It was built to replace all of the existing structures on the Osawatomie State Hospital grounds. It was built exactly to the specifications of the “Kirkbride Plan”, having a central building and two wings, swept back in sections. The …

Endangered:
Rural Churches of Kansas

Year(s) Listed: • 1998 • 2009 | City/Town: • Central Kansas • Eastern Kansas • Northern Kansas • Southern Kansas • Western Kansas

Rural churches all over the State of Kansas are in danger of disappearing. With smaller rural communities finding it harder and harder to keep their incoming revenue sustainable the upkeep of church buildings has become harder to maintain. In addition these communities are losing population faster than they can repopulate leaving congregations to die out …

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:
Topeka State Hospital

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

Photo by: Ralena Gordon of www.theemptyplaces.com It was determined that Topeka needed a mental institution around the 1870s, the state legislature would put up $25,000 under the condition that they wouldn’t have to buy the plot of land for it. Thanks to the donation of $12,000 from both Topeka and Shawnee County 80 acres of …

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 …

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Carnegie Library – Osborne

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

Photo by: By Ammodramus – Own work, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=35626813 The Osborne Public Carnegie Library is a historic Carnegie library in Osborne, Kansas. It was built around 1913 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.[1] It is located at Third and Main in Osborne, the county seat of Osborne County.[3] It is Classical Revival in style, and is a one-story ted …

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Carnegie Library – Lawrence

Year(s) Listed: • 1996 • 1998 | City/Town: • Lawrence

Picture and Info by Carnegie Library The Carnegie building was constructed in 1904 with a grant worth approximately $27,000 from Andrew Carnegie. During the 1930’s an addition was build to accommodate the growing volume of books and materials. It served as the Lawrence public library until a new library was constructed in 1972. The Lawrence …

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:
Kansas River

Year(s) Listed: • 1996 • 1998 | City/Town: • Kansas City • Lawrence • Topeka

Featured Image by: By Dicklyon – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=106194214 The Kaw was historically a wide, shallow, silty, slow-moving, braided river, but it has been heavily modified by flood control measures, water diversions, bank stabilization, and dredging. The Kaw’s degraded habitat has made the American River’s Most Endangered Rivers list 5 times since …

Year Listed: 1998