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Piedmont Christian Church

Piedmont Kansas is a small town compared to say Piedmont Oklahoma. But this now tiny town is rich with history, history that needs to be documented. The Piedmont Christian Church, although now...

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Genn Hospital

Genn Hospital 1921-1969 The Genn Hospital was built as a permanent solution to replace a temporary hospital built in Wamego in 1915. Originally referred to as “Wamego Hospital” when it...

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Boulevard Plaza

The Boulevard Plaza in Wichita is a sad reality of what has happened to shopping centers across the Midwest for decades. But before it became what it is now, read any comments about the Boulevard...

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Cottonwood Falls School

In 1903, the Kansas Legislature authorized the Cottonwood Falls School District to issue $8,000 in bonds to build a new grade school. However, when project estimates came in at $10,000, the community...

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Marion County Poor Farm

Marion County Poor Farm 1888-1950 The beginning stages of the inception of Marion County Poor Farm date back to 1887. After discussing and assessing the need, $10,000 was allotted for the purchasing...

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J. B. Cook Mansion

Jeremiah B. Cook Mansion 1886-1933 Jeremiah Brown Cook (1834-1921) led an extraordinary life. After serving as a cavalry commander during the Civil War, he settled in Kansas, where he established a...

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Landmark Hotel Apartments

Fifth Avenue Hotel 1922 Hutchinson Kansas was booming in the 1920s, with many new business ventures coming to life. One of those was a brand-new hotel that would spearhead the expansion of the...

ELIE GREENHOUSE

Elie Greenhouse

Driving through Wichita when you happen upon this building at first one might assume its an intricately designed large house. They would only discover they were wrong when they approached and saw...

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Kansas Masonic Home

The building you see today is not the original building of the Kansas Masonic Home but the one that replaced Robert Lawrence’s Maplewood Mansion – turned KMH after it burned to the ground...

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ARCO Building

Prairie Oil & Gas Company Office The Prairie Oil and Gas Company was a large competitor of Sinclair, and was founded in 1900.  During its initial four years, the Prairie Oil and Gas...

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Docking Building

The history of the Docking Building is one that begins and ends the same. What was once viewed as an issue in the 1950s, leading to its construction would become desirable in the 2020s and that same...

St. Johns Hospital - Salina

St. Johns Hospital – Salina

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...

Pleasant Valley School

Pleasant Valley School

Pleasant Valley School is a native sandstone one-room schoolhouse that was constructed in 1881 just on the outskirts of Yates Center. There are two different colored sandstones giving evidence of an...

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