National and State Registers of Historic Places

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County: Shawnee
Records: All Properties

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Hughes Conoco Service Station

400 SW Taylor St
Topeka (Shawnee County)
Listed in National Register Jul 5, 2011

Architect: Unknown
Area of Significance: specialty store
Architectural Style(s): Tudor Revival; Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals
Thematic Nomination: Roadside Kansas

Built in 1930 at the corner of Fourth and Taylor Streets in Topeka, the Hughes Conoco Service Station was strategically located to be accessible from two primary arterial streets allowing the station to pull in traffic from all directions. Typical of early 20th-century gas stations, this one was built in the Tudor Revival-style to both blend in with its residential surroundings and serve as a corporate advertisement. The brick building features a round-arch entrance, narrow multi-light casement windows, and a steeply pitched side-gable roof. Its 198 square feet include a sales room and two washrooms. In 1956, Edwin Hughes leased the Conoco Station and added a cement block garage to the east elevation. Hughes became one of the first African Americans in Topeka to operate a business outside of Topeka’s established black commercial district and to operate a station selling gas supplied by a major petroleum company. The building was listed in the Register of Historic Kansas Places in 2009, and was nominated to the National Register as part of the “Roadside Kansas” multiple property nomination for its associations with local commercial and transportation history and for its architecture.

James and Freda Lippitt House

2532 SW Granthurst Avenue
Topeka (Shawnee County)
Listed in National Register Oct 5, 2020

Architect: L.F. Garlinghouse Company
Area of Significance: domestic; secondary structure; single dwelling
Architectural Style(s): Colonial Revival; Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals
Thematic Nomination: Historic Houses of the Garlinghouse Company in Topeka

The James and Freda Lippitt House (Lippitt House) is a two-and-one-half-story Colonial Revival dwelling constructed in 1933 in Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas. It features a side-gable roof, limestone and wood clapboard cladding, and simple massing. The dwelling corresponds to Garlinghouse Company plan number 1246, published in the New American Homes.” Improved ed. (1938) Garlinghouse Company plan book. The exterior remains largely unchanged and retains its historic form, materials, and features illustrated in the plan. While the windows are replacements, they fill historic openings and mimic the configuration and size of the historic windows. The interior retains its historic plan, finishes, and character-defining built-in features typical of early-twentieth century Garlinghouse dwellings. The Lippitt House retains integrity and communicates feelings about and associations with the period of significance.

Jayhawk Hotel, Theater and Walk

117 SW 7th
Topeka (Shawnee County)
Listed in National Register Mar 11, 1982

Architect: Thomas Williamson
Area of Significance: specialty store; hotel; theater
Architectural Style(s): Other

Kansas State Office Building

915 SW Harrison St
Topeka (Shawnee County)
Listed in National Register Jan 20, 2022

Architect: John A. Brown and Robert Slemmons
Area of Significance: government office
Architectural Style(s): Modern Movement

The Kansas State Office Building was constructed between 1954 and 1957, it is an exceptionally intact and unique example of Modern Movement architecture applied to a public office building. The pure geometric forms, contrasting horizontal and vertical emphasis, glass, stone, and aluminum curtain wall, and smooth limestone facing on the exterior epitomize the primary tenets of the style. The interior configuration remains largely unaltered from the period of construction, retaining key features such as the marble elevator lobbies and open office space organized around a central core. The building was constructed to house multiple state agencies in close proximity to the Kansas State Capitol. Its simple form, stark exterior, and modern materials contrast with the surrounding governmental buildings, including the Capitol, which were constructed earlier in the twentieth century.

Kouns, Charles and Dorothy, House

1625 SW MacVicar Avenue
Topeka (Shawnee County)
Listed in National Register Oct 5, 2020

Architect: Chandler & Emshwiller
Area of Significance: domestic; single dwelling
Architectural Style(s): Tudor Revival; Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals

The Charles and Dorothy Kouns, Jr. house is a unique two-story eclectic Tudor Revival house. The house was designed by the architectural firm of Chandler & Emshwiller. Built in 1923, the house retains most of its original Storybook exterior appearance with a faux thatched roof, wood casement windows and twin pointed arched dormers surrounding an arched front door. The frame house is clad in stucco and the curved roof has custom bent wood shingles. The interior contains its original floor plan, rough stucco walls, wide plank flooring, plank doors and iron light fixtures. The house also has a rear southwest corner addition, added in 1950. The house is in excellent condition and retains integrity of design, location and materials.

Luttjohann, Fred and Cora, House

2053 S Kansas Ave
Topeka (Shawnee County)
Listed in National Register Feb 20, 2004

Architect: Not listed
Area of Significance: domestic
Architectural Style(s): Prairie School; Late 19th and Early 20th Century American Movements

Lyons, Horace G., House

4831 SE 61st St
Berryton (Shawnee County)
Listed in National Register Aug 1, 1984

Architect: Not listed
Area of Significance: secondary structure; single dwelling
Architectural Style(s): Italianate; Second Empire

Masonic Grand Lodge Building

320 SW 8th Avenue
Topeka (Shawnee County)
Listed in National Register Oct 8, 2014

Architect: Tilton, Edward Lippincott
Area of Significance: museum
Architectural Style(s): Classical Revival

The Masonic Grand Lodge has served as the headquarters for the Kansas Masons since 1917. The Classical Revival-style building was designed by notable New York-based architect Edward Lippincott Tilton, whose body of work includes the first phase of buildings at Ellis Island and several Carnegie libraries. The building is comprised of offices for the Grand Lodge, a library and museum of Kansas Masonry, and an archive for organizational records. The Masonic Grand Lodge, which is prominently located across the street from the Kansas Statehouse, was nominated for its local significance in the areas of architecture and social history.