Please join us to help celebrate the recent completion of a comprehensive rehabilitation of this 1870 gable-front National Folk style house by LPA board member Pat Watkins. Located one door south of the Castle Tea Room, this house has been vacant since 2006, but has now been brought back from death’s doorstep by Pat and a trusted group of contractors, including Kyle Weiland of Stonehouse Construction.
Read MoreThe 2022 Douglas County Preservation Conference will be held Friday, June 24th and Saturday, June 25th, in Baldwin City, Kansas.
Read MoreJoin the Lawrence Preservation Alliance as we host “After La Yarda”, a historic walking tour of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania Streets with our guide, Brenna Buchanan.
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On Sunday, May 1, Lawrence Modern and Lawrence Preservation Alliance will join forces to celebrate the awesome rehabilitation-- and successful nomination to the National Register of Historic Places-- of the iconic Zimmerman Steel Building at 701 E. 19th Street by new owner Mar Lan Construction.
In 1959 Lee Zimmerman, a leading Lawrence figure in the midcentury-modern movement, designed the shop space that is now the back portion of the building—with his company fabricating the steel frame—as he moved his business from its previous location at 1832 Massachusetts Street. In 1963 he added the classic modern-style office portion in front. Zimmerman built his home at 200 Nebraska in the same style, and his company over the next several decades also supplied steel and fabricated components for most of the midcentury-modern residential, commercial and institutional building projects in Lawrence, the University of Kansas campus and other locations throughout the eastern part of the state.
You know it’s going to be a great party whenever LPA and Lawrence Modern get together to celebrate! Make plans to stop by, say hello and join in the festivities.
