Guide to Kansas Architecture

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Some were designed in elaborate styles bearing elegant names—Beaux-Arts, French Renaissance, Art Deco. Others were humbly handcrafted from easily accessible materials—wood, stone, and sod. But whether courtly, colloquial, capricious, or curious, every of the state’s architectural configurations has grow to be an aesthetic slice of Kansas.

In Guide to Kansas Architecture, David Sachs and George Ehrlich spotlight hundreds of these surprisingly diverse homes, businesses, schools, churches, courthouses, theaters, bridges, and barns spread during all 105 counties. Encompassing the historical and latest, the vernacular and singular, this book features Victorian masterpieces, stately courthouses, and split-level suburban homes alongside the likes of “the world’s most beautiful gas station” and Big Brutus, the enormous electric coal shovel turned museum.

Illustrating where, how, and why Kansans assembled and altered their physical surroundings, the authors have amassed information on 700 structures—including descriptions, construction dates, architects, historical background, and strange traits. Additionally they provide maps and addresses to lead them to easy to find.

This one-of-a-kind guide for Kansas underscores architecture’s bond with the state’s artistic, cultural, historical, social, political, and economic attributes and idiosyncrasies. As a at hand reference and traveling companion, it’s going to be invaluable to the well-versed architect, preservationist, or historian, in addition to to the merely inquisitive and adventurous.

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