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Wonderful Old Kansas Homes Spend some time in the Sunflower State! By Marge Marshall |
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Wonderful Old Kansas Homes Spend some time in the Sunflower State! By Marge Marshall |
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Updated 22.Nov.13 |
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When I was a kid, I spent hours at the Carnegie Library, now part of the Coronado-Quivira Museum in Lyons. The museum has been described as "One of the best small museums in Kansas. Separate displays focus on early inhabitants, Spanish explorers, the Santa Fe Trail, and the coming of homesteaders and permanent settlers." |
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Here in Kansas City, Kansas, I can tour a number of older neighborhoods and see neat old homes. Click here to see some photos I've taken. |
Leavenworth, Kansas is more than the location of a famous federal penitentiary. There are many wonderful old homes there, so it's worth the effort to drive around the city. The Esplanade street overlooks the Missouri River and there are quite a few elegant residence there, but none have websites. However, I hit the jackpot in my search for photos of some of the Victorian homes on the Carroll Mansion page. There are also some elegant old buildings on the grounds of nearby Fort Leavenworth. Kaw Point Park in Kansas City KS - Celebrates the journey of Lewis & Clark in 1804. Circle S Ranch and Country Inn, Lawrence - not far from the University of Kansas and the Kansas City metro area. Kansas Outdoor Art - pictures of unusual things. LOL Visit Lawrence - Be sure to include the University of Kansas, my alma mater! Memorable Kansas Restaurants - there are lots of links on this site, and as navigate from it you can see a number of other things around Kansas. Historic homes for sale in Kansas. More photos of historic homes in Kansas. Great Bend - historic homes walk and other walking trails. We lived in Great Bend when our younger son was born in 1962. The name comes from a bend in the Arkansas River just south of town. Historic Landmarks of Kansas - many choices of old homes and other types of buildings. Select the county and go for it! (For example, try McPherson County) Beecher Bible and Rifle Church, near Wamego Governor’s Meeting House, Shawnee - 1850s Federal-Styled Home Visit Clyde Cessna’s home town, Kingman, especially if you're interested in aviation. Cedar Crest, residence of the Governor, in Topeka. French-Norman style, built in 1928 for $60,000. Sibley’s Campsite, Larned - along the Santa Fe Trail. The Little Red House, first house in Larned. Holton House, Holton - 4,000 sq ft Victorian mansion, 1888 - family-style chicken dinners - not far from Topeka, Leavenworth and Kansas City The E.C. Chase House, Overland Park. Perhaps the oldest inhabited residence in Johnson County, it was built around 1869 by Elijah Cornell Chase. Historic Fort Larned - just west of Larned - 150 years old. Fritz’s Railroad Restaurant, Kansas City - Fun for kids of all ages! The Historic Sage Inn, Dover. Once a stage coach station, it is 125 years old. Carrie Nation Home in Medicine Lodge - Mrs. Nation was the hatchet lady who campaigned for temperance. Uniquely Kansas: Moon Marble Company, Bonner Springs Where The Trails Divide - Gardner - "The major intersection of the Oregon and Santa Fe Trails" College Hill Bed and Breakfast - Wichita The Ideal Home, 1926 - in Kansas City The restored Columbian Theater in Wamego - home for artifacts of 1893 Columbian Exhibition in Chicago. The Oz Museum is nearby. Lady Di’s Court, Scott City - Pheasant Hunters welcome Strawberry Hill Museum - the 1887 Cruise-Scroggs Mansion in Kansas City 1906 Courtland Hotel, Fort Scott Brown Mansion, Coffeyville - Sixteen rooms, completed in 1904 Kansas Keepsakes, Lyons - A scrapbookers' delight built in 1907 Sauer Castle in Kansas City - Quite a neat old place about 10 miles from where I live. Wish I could go inside and look around, but it's not open to the public. Ghosts? No way. Endiron Estate, Salina - "A two-story Neo-Colonial style home, with a full-width front porch supported by massive limestone piers and arched balustrades." The Eldridge Hotel A Lawrence hotel with a history dating back to the Civil War. Country Haven Inn - Hillsboro and Burlington - country hospitality in a modern setting. Landmark Inn - Historic Bank Building, Oberlin. After the failure of the ban in 1896, the building became the Decatur County Courthouse. Click here for photo of the current Courthouse 1906 Cottage Garden Guest House in WaKeeney - wild flower tours in season. Along Interstate Highway 70 in western Kansas. Kansas State Historical Museum in Topeka has an elegant Victoria dollhouse. I want to see it in person! www.kshs.org/cool3/dollhouse.htm Savannah House in Kingman. Rich in antiques. My mother lived in Kingman when she was a teenager in the 1920s. Walter P. Chrysler Boyhood Home, Ellis KS. The website features some old Chrysler automobiles. 1950s All-Electric Home - Who would have thought the Fifties would ever be considered history! Morgan House, Peabody KS. A two-story Queen Anne cottage built in 1881. Kyne House Museum, Lincoln. Limestone House built in 1885. You'll want to follow other interesting links on the website, such as Topsy School, the Marshall-Yohe House, and the Cummins Block Building. Leatherock Hotel, Cherryvale - The hometown of Vivian Vance, "Ethel" in I Love Lucy. Glick Mansion in historic Atchison. Elegant 1873 Victorian built by George Click, who later served a term as governor of Kansas Amanna élan Hotel in Tonganoxie. Cool picture of old cars! Clover Cliff Ranch, Elmdale, in the Flint Hills. 1860. If you’ve read PrairyErth by William Least Heat-Moon, you’ve read about Clover Cliff because it’s in Chase County, Kansas. To see a "resurrected" paddle boat, you'll want to visit the Arabia Steamboat Museum in Kansas City, MO. The Barn Inn, Valley Falls. Designed around a 110-year-old historic barn. Chateau Avalon in Kansas City KS. Delightful historic look outside, and period suites inside. Near the exciting new Village West shopping center. Prairie Moon in Hutchinson. Historic Prairie Style house. Painted Garden. In 1928 James Nelson cashed in $10,000 of AT&T stock to build this home for his bride. This restored Greek Revival home is located in Hutchinson's Houston Whiteside Historical District. Stonehouse on Mulberry Hill in Cottonwood Falls, 1874. Located near the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve. Ingleboro Mansion, Smith Center. A Victorian built in 1899. Rosemary Inn. This house was standing when my mother was born in Osage City in 1912, although that particular residence (my great-grandmother's home) is no longer there. Red Rocks, the William Allen White home in Emporia. Famed Kansas newspaperman. Beaumont Hotel "...Created in 1879 as a stagecoach and railroad stop to shelter weary pioneers." Features a small-plane landing strip. Brickyard Barn Inn - Topeka. 1927 dairy barn converted into an inn. The Allen-Lambe House in Wichita - "...The only residence in Kansas designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Completed in 1919, it is the final example of Wright's 'Prairie Houses.' " Cimarron Crossing, 1907. Aunt Sally's old Cimarron home has been modernized, but it's still a place with "small town simplicity." C&W Ranch, Smolan - "A true working ranch headquarters" in the Kansas Flint Hills. Minor Family Sod House -- in northwest Kansas. A "soddy." Sounds like just the place for someone interested in history. I'd like to visit it someday! Only in Kansas! The Prairie Tumbleweed Farm near Garden City. Don't miss this one! ;~) Murphy-Bromelsick House, Lawrence -- "Abolitionist John Speer established a farmstead shortly after his arrival in Kansas Territory in September 1854."
Amelia Earhart's Birthplace in Atchison is now a museum. "The Museum is a wood-frame, Gothic Revival cottage, built in 1861, with the rear brick Italianate addition built in 1873." Ehrsam Place -- Near Abilene, "this Greek Revival mansion has been the showplace of the Kansas Flint Hills for over 120 years." Victorian Reflections in Abilene -- the home of one of President Eisenhower's friends. Back in Thyme and Candlelight Cottage are in Bonner Springs, the edge of the Kansas City metro area. Are you a porch lover? Then check out the House of Seven Porches! An 1874 stone house -- I want to drive by this one in the near future. Cottonwood Falls has a neat old courthouse. This 1883 Italianate is a terrific example of what I think of as a "raised eyebrows" house! Howell House is located in north central Kansas. The Kapp Place at Elm Grove Farm. Another delightful old home -- in historic Fort Scott -- the Lyons' Victorian Mansion. My dad used to work at the Salt Plant in Lyons, so when the new Kansas Underground Salt Museum in Hutchinson (30 miles from Lyons) is ready, you can be sure we'll visit it! Howard's dad worked for Frisco railroad in Lyons. (On the Frisco link, be sure to click on the Railway Station picture to enlarge it.) Zebras, camels, ostriches! Drive along Kansas Highway 96 out of Nickerson, and you won't believe what you'll see. It's Hedrick's Exotic Animal Farm and an extraordinary Bed and Breakfast too. Little Girl Tea Parties are available at Three Sisters Inn, a "recently restored turn-of-the-century home, at one time the residence of the three Ripley sisters - Della Rose, Melissa, and Edith." Baldwin City. Pickering House in Olathe - an Italianate Victorian. "As you enter the home, you will step back in time as you marvel at the detailed craftsmanship of the floating one-piece walnut staircase and the stained-glass window that awaits your eye at the top." Not far from my home so I'm going to drive by it soon! Mahaffie Stagecoach Stop & Farm Historic Site, Olathe. "The last remaining stagecoach stop on the historic Santa Fe Trail still open to the public." Now cross the state to the west to Garden City, and you'll find Sunnyland, "an opulent turn-of-the-20th century Queen Ann style brick home." Wichita's Historic Campbell Castle, now known as The Castle Inn Riverside, "an 1888 Scottish Castle located on the banks of the Little Arkansas River."
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