The idea for the St. Johns Salina Hospital was pitched by Rev. Father Maher of the Sisters of St. Joseph who then brought the idea to other non-Catholic citizens of Salina who agreed there was a need...
Table of Contents To Read More And See Exclusive Pictures of White Lakes Mall Click Here to Order ‘Abandoned Topeka: Psychiatric Capital of the World’White Lakes Mall Through the YearsClosingFire and...
Table of Contents Douglas DC-3 “Skysleeper”Douglas DC-4Convair 240 “Big Sky One”Cessna PlanesGallery Below of Airplane Graveyard Never in my life had I ever come across...
To Read More And See More Pictures Click Here to Order ‘Abandoned Topeka: Psychiatric Capital of the World’ 1880-1935 Sumner Schools History The first Sumner school was built around 1875 as a one...
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...
Table of Contents To Read More And See More Pictures Click Here to Order ‘Abandoned Topeka: Psychiatric Capital of the World’Security Benefit AssociationMenninger Sanitarium (East Campus)Menninger...
Table of Contents Roller Coaster/The Nightmare:Whacky Shack:Skycoaster:The Log Jam:Ferris Wheel:DODGEM — Classic Bumper Cars:Frontier Town:Porky the Paper Eater:Louie The...
The Ravanna School was built in late 1888, it was a two-story, stone building that would serve the community. By November twenty-one men had been employed to work on the new educational facility and...
Table of Contents Sunflower Ordnance WorksSunflower Army Ammunition PlantGallery & Video Below of Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant Sunflower Ordnance Works Starting originally as the Sunflower...
Prior to this building being constructed another one existed “on the old Fair Ground Road”. In January 1909 a boy discovered the Guinn School house in flames with the cause of origin...
Joseph C. Smith Sr. and Mary Francis Burt Smith had decided that Wellington Kansas would be the place they settled down to have and raise their children. Mary had birthed four children Edwin, Joseph...
Much isn’t known about the Dorrance Drug Store, from what we could find it was built prior to 1908. The store can be seen in the picture above next to the Dorrance Post Office which accompanied...
Table of Contents Sedgwick County Poor Farm Infirmary 1926-1930Sedgwick County Tuberculosis Sanitorium 1931-1945Sunflower School Inc Christian Day and Boarding School 1946-1950Wichita Eagles Lodge...
The small town of Bavaria sounds like something you would run across in Germany rather than Kansas. That’s because its name originates from Germany. Once a bustling town it boasted a brand new...
Table of Contents Wyandot Swim ClubKansas City Beach ClubGallery Below of Wyandot Swim Club Wyandot Swim Club Once a luxury swim club is now a derelict memory of what it used to be. The vision for...
Driving down a dirt or gravel road, a wheat field on one side, cornfield on the other and prairie grass for miles ahead. Inevitably if you drive long enough you’re bound to come across a few...
The small town of Furley Kansas was sitting at a population of 200 in 1911. Gene Merrill felt the city was in need of a bank and decided to be the head organizer for an institution. With help from...
Table of Contents Kansas State Office BuildingDocking BuildingDemiseGallery Below of the Docking Building Throughout the 1940s and early 50s state agencies were housed within the State Capitol...
This Arkansas City depot was a part of the Midland Valley, Western District Division of the Texas & Pacific Railway. In August 1917 E.L. Kingsbury, the agent for the Midland Valley Railroad...
The Frederick Jail is an amazingly preserved example of a single cell jail from the early 1900s. These small jails were typically made of concrete, built to last decades and deter the most...
The Loy School was birthed when a local farmer by the name of Robert Loy donated a parcel of his farmland on October 17, 1891 for the purpose of building a school. The limestone schoolhouse was named...
The Phyllis Wheatley Wichita Childrens Home was organized by Elsie Miller and the Federated Womens’ Club, a group of selfless and caring women that wanted to provide a safe place for African...
The Holcomb depot that sits out in a field in Bucklin, Kansas is only a shell of what it used to be. Once bustling with activity it now gathers dust and dirt from the plains. The start of this depot...
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