National Register of Historic Places The Eldridge House Hotel 7th and Massachusetts Street Built c. 1925 The Lawrence Preservation Alliance Submitted by: @shinton
825–827 Massachusetts Street Site of various Lawrence bakeries 1860s–1931 J.A. Keeler Stationery and Book Shop 1886–1909 Montgomery Ward Department Store 1931–1968 Wards combined 825 and 827...
Watkins Land Mortgage Company and National Bank Richardsonian Romanesque style building, designed by Cobb and Frost, architects, erected in 1888 for Lawrence financier, Jabez B. Watkins. ...
Miller’s Hall Built for Josiah Miller, Free State Party activist and Lawrence’s first State Senator. Construction begun late 1850’s; partially destroyed during Quantrill’s raid; reconstruction...
1855 1857 HOTEL ELDRIDGE 1863 1925 Submitted by: @shinton
This marks the site of the Free State Hotel erected in 1855 by the New England Emigrant Aid Society. Destroyed by Sheriff Jones and his posse May 21, 1856 and rebuilt by Col. Schaler W. Eldridge....
Lawrence Studio Constructed Late 1860’s Alexander Marks, jeweler, was an early occupant This building, now reflective of Mission Style, housed dry goods, drugs, and jewelry businesses and...
Round Corner Drug Building constructed in 1866 to house a drug store founded by B. W. Woodward in 1855. Oldest drug store in Lawrence and Kansas in continuous operation. Submitted by: @shinton
Marks Jewelers This building has housed a variety of commercial enterprises since the mid 1860’s including a grocery, clothier, and tobacco shops. Sol Marks began operating a jewelry shop on...
Douglas County Courthouse Designed by John G. Haskill and Fredrick Gunn in the Richardsonian Romanesque style. Constructed by the firm of Cuthbert and Sargent of Topeka, KS 1903–1904. Listed...