Guide to Kansas Architecture

Sachs, David H. & George Ehrlich

ISBN 10: 0700607781 / ISBN 13: 9780700607785

Published by University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, 1996

About this Item

349 pages, soft bound. Slight blemish on fore edge. Otherwise Fine.

Seller Inventory # 037262

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Guide to Kansas Architecture
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas, Lawrence
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0700607781
• ISBN 13: 9780700607785
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Architecture
  • Kansas

About this title

Synopsis

Some were designed in elaborate styles bearing elegant names—Beaux-Arts, French Renaissance, Art Deco. Others were humbly handcrafted from easily accessible materials—wood, stone, and sod. But whether courtly, colloquial, capricious, or curious, each of the state's architectural configurations has become an aesthetic slice of Kansas.

In Guide to Kansas Architecture, David Sachs and George Ehrlich spotlight hundreds of these surprisingly diverse homes, businesses, schools, churches, courthouses, theaters, bridges, and barns spread throughout all 105 counties. Encompassing the historical and contemporary, the vernacular and singular, this book features Victorian masterpieces, stately courthouses, and split-level suburban homes alongside the likes of "the world's most beautiful gas station" and Big Brutus, the enormous electric coal shovel turned museum.

Illustrating where, how, and why Kansans assembled and altered their physical surroundings, the authors have amassed information on 700 structures—including descriptions, construction dates, architects, historical background, and unusual traits. They also provide maps and addresses to make them easy to find.

This one-of-a-kind guide for Kansas underscores architecture's bond with the state's artistic, cultural, historical, social, political, and economic attributes and idiosyncrasies. As a handy reference and traveling companion, it will be invaluable to the well-versed architect, preservationist, or historian, as well as to the merely inquisitive and adventurous.

About the Author

David Sachs is a practicing architect and associate professor of architecture at Kansas State University. George Ehrlich is professor emeritus of art history at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, and author of Kansas City, Missouri: An Architectural Guide.