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8 ELEMENTS OF KANSAS RURAL CULTURE

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ARTS CENTER

Lumberyard Arts Center

The renovated 1914 Ives-Hartley Lumber Company building is a work of art…

📍 Baldwin City, Douglas County

BREWERY

Lumberyard Brewery & Tap House

A downtown staple since 1886—once home to the Chicago Lumber & Coal…

📍 Lyons, Rice County

LUSTRON

Lustron Home

The lustrous dove gray Lustron home at 123 N. Missouri is one…

📍 Ulysses, Grant County

LUSTRON

Lustron Homes

Lustron homes, an efficient post-WWII invention, were made from prefabricated steel, inside…

📍 Garden City, Finney County

CARNEGIE LIBRARY

Lyndon Carnegie Library

When this one-story brick and limestone library was built in 1910 it…

📍 Lyndon, Osage County

COURTHOUSE

Lyon County Courthouse

One of the newest courthouses in the state, the fourth Lyon County…

📍 Emporia, Lyon County

BAND SHELL

Macksville WPA Band Shell

From Main, 2 blocks east on Halveson. What is unusual about this…

📍 Macksville, Stafford County

VINTAGE GAS STATION

Madison Gulf Station

A renovated Gulf Station stands at Madison and 4th, complete with gas…

📍 Madison, Greenwood County

MUSEUM

Madison Historical Society Museum

The Madison Historical Society has worked hard to create a museum inside…

📍 Madison, Greenwood County

MUSEUM

Mahaffie Stagecoach Stop and Farm Historic…

Mahaffie is the last remaining stagecoach stop on the Santa Fe Trail…

📍 Olathe, Johnson County

POST OFFICE

Mahaska Post Office

The red-brick 1921 bank building is now the town post office—but maybe…

📍 Mahaska, Washington County

HISTORIC SCHOOL

Mahaska Rural High School

The J-shaped, red-brick 1927 Mahaska Rural High School (NRHP) was constructed during…

📍 Mahaska, Washington County

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