Highlights from the 2008 Kansas Preservation Conference Awards Reception

Medallion Award for Rehabilitation

Bartell House – Junction City, KS

Homestead Affordable Housing, owner.  Now Bartell Place Senior Residences, the rehabilitation of the Bartell House was a long effort by many preservationists and other interested groups in Junction City.

Medallion Award for Rehabilitation

Ottawa Junior and Senior High School - Ottawa, KS

5th & Main Housing, LP, owner.  Steve Foutch, Gastinger Walker Harden Architects.  The High School building was constructed in 1917, reflecting the 20th century Collegiate Gothic motif.  The 1927 junior high was constructed north of the high school, also of brick to compliment the 1917 school.  The rehabilitation caps over ten years of effort by preservationists in Ottawa.

Notable Achievement in Rehabilitation

Cooper Drug Store - Augusta, KS

Brett Kappelmann, owner; William Morris Associates, Architects.  Two buildings are included in the Cooper Drug Store dating from the early 1900s.  Cooper Drug Store has operated as a drug store since 1922.

Notable Achievement in Rehabilitation

Keep Klean Building – Wichita, KS

John Belford, Waterman Properties, LLC, owner; Wilson, Darnell, Mann Architects.  The 1929 building represents the early twentieth-century Commercial Style, featuring simple lines and an emphasis on fire-resistance with fire-proof materials such as reinforced concrete, brick and steel.  "Keep Klean" is inscribed in the limestone above the main entrance of the building, a towel and linen supply business that operated from 1929 to 1978.

Notable Achievement in Rehabilitation

Mahaska High School – Mahaska, KS

Mahaska Housing Partnership, LP, owner; Steve Foutch, Gastinger Walker Harden Architects.   Designed in the Collegiate Gothic Revival style opening in 1926 and closing ca. 1955.  Built during the Progressive Movement of school building (1910s-1930s) in the northwestern corner of Washington County, near the center of a local agricultural trade center on the former Chicago, Rock Island Pacific Railroad.

Notable Achievement in Rehabilitation

Sentney Wholesale Grocery Building – Hutchinson, KS

South Elevation - Main entrance to Sentney Wholesale Grocery and to the New Sentney Loft Apartments.

Downtown Hutch Housing Partners, owner; Wilson, Darnell, Mann Architects.  Built in 1904 as a wholesale grocery; 1938 became the home of Western Food Products producing pickles, vinegar, mustard, preserves, and other products until closing in 1983.

Lifetime Achievement Award

Richard Pankratz – Topeka, KS

Dick Pankratz spent 34 years at the Kansas State Historical Society and was the agency's first full-time staff person dedicated to the historic preservation program.