LPA Requests Assistance to Help Save Smith Hall
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As we have reported previously, Smith Hall on the campus of the University of Kansas is in danger of being demolished and we need your help to save it!
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LPA partners with Lawrence Modern and Historic Mount Oread Friends to host Endangered Smith Hall Open House
/Join us for a special opportunity to view Ima I. Smith Hall, home of the Department of Religious Studies, a Modern Movement treasure at the University of Kansas that was built in 1967. KU is currently vacating the building and its future is unknown.
All are welcome.
Read MoreChanges abound at the Turnhalle!
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Turnhalle is coming back! After being shuttered from public use for the past nine years, this landmark German-American community building, built by the Lawrence Turnverein in 1869, is beginning a major rehabilitation project.
Read MoreLPA Announces Old House Warming at 1313 Massachusetts Street
/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 MoreLPA to participate in Douglas County Preservation Conference
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The 2022 Douglas County Preservation Conference will be held Friday, June 24th and Saturday, June 25th, in Baldwin City, Kansas.
Read MoreLPA Announces dates for "After La Yarda" - A walk through history guided by Brenna Buchanan Young
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Join 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.
Read MoreLawrence Modern and LPA to host open house at Zimmerman Steel
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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.