LPA Announces Old Housewarming at the Colonel Blood Home

1015 Tennessee Street
Saturday, June 29
1-3pm
Ticket Price: $10

Please join us as we explore this beautifully preserved home completed in 1870 for original owners James and Eliza Blood. Built in the Italianate style with a low-pitched roof in a basic T plan, with red clay brick walls twelve inches thick, the front section of this stately home was completed in 1867, with the intricately-detailed front porch and a two-story back addition—also in brick-- coming later.

Listed in the National Register of Historic Places in February of 1972, this is one of the city’s earliest historic listings, with the national register having been established in 1966. It was then listed in the Register of Historic Kansas Places in 1977, the same year that register was established.

After marrying Eliza, James moved from Wisconsin to Kansas in 1854, where he worked as a land agent for Amos Lawrence as the first party of New England Emigrant Aid Company settlers arrived in late July. His many leadership positions during formative years for the state and city included serving as the first mayor of Lawrence in 1857. He was among the original trustees of what would become the University of Kansas. During the Civil War, he served in the Kansas State Militia and rose to the rank of Major General by 1862, but by 1878 James and Eliza had lost the home to foreclosure. It is now the home of Mike and Kathy Delaney.

Tickets are $10 per person and must be purchased in advance. To register and purchase tickets, please go to givebutter.com/ColonelBloodHouse.