1999 – Kansas Preservation Alliance

Endangered:
Leavenworth Veterans Affairs Complex

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

Photo by Vickie Bach In 1884, Leavenworth was chosen as the site for a home for disabled veterans. James McGonigle was a local builder and a veteran who had been wounded in the Civil War and also designed the Riverfront Community Center in Leavenworth. At the home for disabled soldiers, McGonigle’s firm constructed 17 buildings on 650 acres of land. …

Endangered:
Windsor Hotel

Year(s) Listed: • 1993 • 1997 • 1999 | City/Town: • Garden City

Photo by: By Ammodramus – Own work, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=39265993 Construction began on the Windsor in 1887. Its chief builder was John A. Stevens, a former buffalo hunter and wild horse wrangler. He was backed by the building and architecture firm Stevens and Thompson and only decided to build when he saw another of Garden City’s …

Endangered:
Thompson-Wohlschlegel Barn

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

Photo from NRHP Nomination Form The Thompson-Wohlschlegel Round Barn near Harper, Kansas is a round barn that was built during 1910 to 1913. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985, and was delisted in 2020.[1][2] It is about 80 feet (24 m) in diameter and has a three-tier domed roof which is 75 feet (23 m) tall. Its first floor …

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. …

Year Listed: 1999