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8 ELEMENTS OF KANSAS RURAL CULTURE

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HISTORIC HOME

1872 Gernon House

Built by Russell's first blacksmith, Nicholas Gernon, this home is the town's…

📍 Russell, Russell County

HISTORIC JAIL

1873 Jail

The oldest building in Ellsworth, the limestone jail is a shell of…

📍 Ellsworth, Ellsworth County

LIBRARY

1883 Prescott School

The 1883 two-story red-brick Prescott School building, designed in the Italianate style,…

📍 Prescott, Linn County

CUSTOMS

1889 School Bell

At 2nd and Walnut, the original school bell rests prominently on a…

📍 Medicine Lodge, Barber County

HISTORIC JAIL

1899 Limestone Jail

Long after J.C. Holland designed the Kansas State Capitol, he was the…

📍 Mankato, Jewell County

HISTORIC JAIL

1902 Limestone Jail

Look in on the 1902 limestone jail.

📍 Lucas, Russell County

HISTORIC JAIL

1910 Jail

It just might be the fanciest historic jailhouse in Kansas. Constructed in…

📍 Ellsworth, Ellsworth County

HISTORIC HOME

1950s All-Electric House

Why would electrical outlets be placed waist high? So high-heeled home- makers…

📍 Overland Park, Johnson County

ARTS CENTER

5.4.7 Arts Center

This ultra-modern community arts center is committed to presenting regularly changing fine…

📍 Greensburg, Kiowa County

ARCHITECTURE

A.C. Flack Home

See a textbook example of a Queen Anne cottage home built by…

📍 Fredonia, Wilson County

HISTORIC HOME

A.L. Wynkoop Home

In 1912 local carpenter and contractor Ely Saunders interpreted the popular Prairie…

📍 Highland, Doniphan County

HISTORIC BUILDING

Abandoned Livery Stable

Plat maps show a native limestone structure at 1st and Otis that…

📍 Beverly, Lincoln County

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