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Coffeyville, Kansas
Completed in 1904 at a reported cost of $125,000, the three-story, 16-room Brown Mansion in Coffeyville was built for businessman W.P.…
Wamego, Kansas
Wamego's Columbian Theatre was built in the 1890s by local banker J.C. Rogers as a music hall, and it was decorated with murals and…
Lawrence, Kansas
The Eldridge Hotel stands on the site of the Free State Hotel, built in Lawrence in 1855 by New England settlers and named to signal that…
Hays, Kansas
The legend of the "Blue Light Lady" says Elizabeth Polly still walks Sentinel Hill, seen as a woman in blue with a white bonnet, as a misty…
Holton, Kansas
Hotel Josephine was built in 1889 by Holton businessman A.D. Walker and named for his four-month-old daughter, Josephine. The brick hotel…
Hutchinson, Kansas
The Hutchinson Public Library opened in 1901 and moved into its present building at 901 N. Main in 1951. Its best-known story concerns Ida…
Nicodemus, Kansas
Nicodemus was founded in 1877 by formerly enslaved African Americans from Kentucky seeking land on the Kansas plains, and it remains the…
Wichita, Kansas
Old Cowtown Museum, founded in 1952 on 23 acres beside the Arkansas River in Wichita, is run by Historic Wichita Cowtown, Inc. in…
Wichita, Kansas
The Orpheum Theatre opened in downtown Wichita on September 4, 1922, designed by architect John Eberson in the atmospheric style to feel…
Kansas City, Kansas
Quindaro was founded in the 1850s by Wyandot Nation members and Free State abolitionists as a free-state port on the Missouri River, and it…
Atchison, Kansas
The Sallie House in Atchison was built in the mid-1800s and is tied locally to Dr. Charles Finney. Local lore holds that a girl named…
Atchison, Kansas
The stone Santa Fe Depot in Atchison was built in 1880 as a freight depot for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway. Restored, it now…