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8 ELEMENTS OF KANSAS RURAL CULTURE

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DRINKING FOUNTAIN

Goff Drinking Fountain

Across from the Goff Bank (5200 Stahl) is a 1930 green-and-white drinking…

📍 Goff, Nemaha County

HISTORIC BUILDING

Gold Dust Hotel

The three-story Italianate building commands the corner of the courthouse square, where…

📍 Fredonia, Wilson County

ARCHITECTURE

Golden Rule Oil Company Building

This small tin-clad building with matching parapets on all four sides, was…

📍 Isabel, Barber County

CARNEGIE LIBRARY

Goodland Carnegie Arts

The art exhibits inside this 1913 former library change regularly and much…

📍 Goodland, Sherman County

STATE HISTORIC SITE

Goodnow House State Historic Site

Pioneer educator Isaac Goodnow and his wife, Ellen, built this limestone farmhouse…

📍 Manhattan, Riley County

COURTHOUSE

Gove County Courthouse

The smallest county seat in the state, Gove's two-story red-brick courthouse originally…

📍 Gove, Gove County

COURTHOUSE

Graham County Courthouse

As most courthouses built in the 1950s, this 1958 structure was built…

📍 Hill City, Graham County

ARCHITECTURE

Grain Bin Scale House

Vance and Louise Ehmke's grain bin also serves as a scale house…

📍 Around the county, Lane County

GRAIN ELEVATORS

Grain Elevator Museum

The Grenola Mill and Elevator served the community from 1909 to 1986,…

📍 Grenola, Elk County

HISTORIC OPERA HOUSE

Grainfield Opera House

This elegant opera house, built in 1887 with local brick and limestone,…

📍 Grainfield, Gove County

ARCHITECTURE

Grange Hall

The New Lancaster Grange bought the 1885 Baptist church in 1901 and…

📍 New Lancaster, Miami County

COURTHOUSE

Grant County Courthouse

Art deco, earth tone tiles accent the brick exterior of this 1930…

📍 Ulysses, Grant County

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