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Collyer Downtown Historic District

Along Ainslie Ave, roughly bounded by 2nd St on North, 4th St on South
Collyer (Trego County)
Listed in National Register Jan 7, 2010

Architect: Not listed
Area of Significance: specialty store; city hall; fire station; post office; music facility; meeting hall; rail-related; water works
Architectural Style(s): Commercial; Other

Like many Kansas farm communities, Collyer thrived during the first decades of the twentieth century. Developments in agricultural technology, including the adoption of gasoline-powered tractors, and recordhigh crop prices during World War I left Kansas farmers with unprecedented sums of disposable income. Small-town businesses scrambled to accommodate the new consumer class. Whereas Collyer's residents at this time included laborers and agents working for the Union Pacific Railroad, most were carpenters, horse traders, merchants, butchers, and barbers who provided goods and services to the surrounding farm and ranch community. In 1917, Collyer was incorporated - for the first time - as a third-class city. It was during the post-World War I years that Collyer took on much of its present character. The district includes twelve historic buildings and structures all constructed between 1926 and 1935. Most buildings have been vacant for many years. The district was nominated for its association with the development of the community.

Keraus Hardware Store

121 North Main Street
WaKeeney (Trego County)
Listed in National Register Oct 10, 2023

Architect: Not listed
Area of Significance: commerce
Architectural Style(s): Commercial Style

Built as the Keraus Hardware Store in 1925, this store is located in downtown WaKeeney, Kansas. The store supplied the region's farmers and ranchers with supplies and household wares from 1925 to 1970. The one-story masonry building is a one-part commercial block design. Absent a hardware store settlement would have been difficult, although there was a railroad close to WaKeeney the lack of ready materials for homesteading would have made the land mostly uninhabitable due to its lack of trees and other resources.

Lipp Barn

17054 130th Ave
Collyer (Trego County)
Listed in National Register Jul 8, 2009

Architect: P Lipp & Sons, M Dreilling, & others Collyer, KS
Area of Significance: agricultural outbuilding; animal facility
Architectural Style(s): Other
Thematic Nomination: Historic Agriculture Related Resources of Kansas

Built in 1917 by the Lipp family, the Lipp Barn typifies the Midwest Prairie style with its center-aisle plan with flanking shed bays, wide sweeping roofline, and large haymow and gambrel-shaped roof designed to maximize hay storage. Originally constructed to house horses, livestock, hay, and grain, the barn has experienced only minor changes as it has adapted to evolving agricultural practices and technology. It was nominated as part of the "Historic Agriculture-Related Resources of Kansas" multiple property listing for its architecture and its association with local agricultural history.

St. Michael School & Convent

700 & 703 Ainslie Avenue
Collyer (Trego County)
Listed in National Register Apr 16, 2008

Architect: C. C. Smith
Area of Significance: school; religious facility
Architectural Style(s): Late 19th and Early 20th Century American Movements

Nominated for their architecture, the St. Michael's School and Convent were constructed in 1916-1917 and 1925 respectively. Designed by C. C. Smith of Salina, the school is a two-story, red brick building featuring Craftsman-style characteristics in its form, low roof pitch, and third-story dormers. The convent, also red brick, has similar characteristics as low-pitched roof and has subtle expressions of the Craftsman style including exposed rafter tails and multi-light windows. Constructed as a parochial school and convent for the adjacent St. Michael Catholic Parish, the school was operational until the late 1960s.

Stradal House

409 North 13th Street
WaKeeney (Trego County)
Listed in National Register Mar 2, 2001

Architect: Not listed
Area of Significance: secondary structure; single dwelling
Architectural Style(s): Modern Movement; Other
Thematic Nomination: Lustron Houses of Kansas

The Stradal House, constructed in 1950, is a one-story, side gabled, Lustron home designed in the two-bedroom Westchester Deluxe Plan. The exterior steel panels are desert tan with white trim. Built by Dreiling Implements of Hays for John and Agnes Stradal, the Lustron was a prefabricated metal home that had interior features of built-in cabinets and bookshelves. It was nominated for its architecture and its significance as one of only a hundred Lustron houses extant in Kansas at the time of nomination.

Trego County Fairgrounds Exhibit Building

Tract 10-12-23, Trego County Fairgrounds
Wakeeney (Trego County)
Listed in National Register Jan 28, 2004

Architect: Not listed
Area of Significance: fair
Architectural Style(s): Other

Constructed in 1916, the Exhibit Building located at Trego County Fairgrounds is a simple rectangular structure with gable roof and a clerestory that rises three feet above the lower roof. The exterior has wood shiplap siding and the interior is open with hardwood floors. It served as the hub of the fairgrounds and provided a space where community organizations could meet and hold events. The Exhibit Building was nominated for its association with local recreation and the Trego County Fair.

Walsh Archeological District

Address Restricted
Collyer (Trego County)
Listed in National Register Jan 15, 1985

Architect: Not listed
Area of Significance: archaeological site

Wilcox School - District 29

RR--15 mi. S of WaKeeney on Highway 283
Ransom (Trego County)
Listed in National Register May 17, 2006

Architect: Not listed
Area of Significance: school
Architectural Style(s): Vernacular

The Wilcox School was constructed in 1886 of limestone quarried from the nearby Smoky Hill River. It is a rectangular building with a gable roof and has two front entrances with three windows on the adjacent sides and a chimney at the rear. It was nominated as part of the "Historic Public School of Kansas" multiple property listing for its association with early local education and as one of the few remaining historic rural schools in Trego County.

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