Results for city: Topeka, Kansas
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Abraham Lincoln (seated) Sculpture - "Man Of Sorrow"
This sculpture of Abraham Lincoln was designed and constructed by Robert Merrell Gage, a native Kansan. It is a bronze statue on a four-foot high granite base in the southeast quadrant of the State Capitol grounds in downtown Topeka. Gage based his work on numerous photographs and sketches depictin... [more]
Bronze plaque with head of Lincoln and text of the Gettysburg Address, dedicated in 1936 by the Sue Lovell Tent No. 6, Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War and placed in the lobby of the main Topeka Post Office.... [more]
Congregational College in Topeka founded Feb. 6, 1865. The name was changed to Washburn College in November 1868, in honor of a large donation by Ichabod Washburn of Worcester, Massachusetts. In 1941 the name was changed again to Washburn Municipal University of Topeka.... [more]
Grade School which stood at 5th and Madison in Topeka, constructed in the 1880s but no longer in existence.... [more]
Seated Lincoln statue based on Daniel Chester French statue in Washington, D.C., can be found at Topeka's Mount Hope Cemetery in the Lincoln Gardens. Created by Almo Lavagnini in 1961.... [more]
Lincoln Street runs intermittently as a north-south street in Topeka. North of the Kansas River it runs between Laurent and Gordon; Lower Silver Lake Rd. and 6th NW; and 7th NW and Lyman Rd. South of the Kansas River it runs between 4th SW and 21st SW; and 29th SW to Cornwall.... [more]