Places and activities around my home town, Topeka,
KS.
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Wet weather, farmland, Lower Silver Lake Rd., Aug. 2015 |
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Baby tigers, Topeka Zoo | Beautiful day at Ensley Garden, Lake Shawnee, Topeka: April 11, 2014 |
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Beautiful day at Ensley Garden, Lake Shawnee, Topeka: April 11, 2014 |
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Storm clouds, Kaw River, 9-'13 | Smashing pianos to raise money for music fraturnity, Washburn University, August, 2013 |
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Flowers and shed roof, Meyer's Market, Lower Silver Lake Rd. | Sunset, 8-1-13 |
Sunset, Shunga Park, 8-1-13 |
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Removing the Highway 75 cloverleaf, July, 2013 |
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Kansas River at boat landing, January 21, 2013 |
Mr. Ichabod at sunset |
Dome under repair, Nov. 2012 |
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View of Wouthwest Topeka near 29th and Wnamaker |
Cityscape, November, 2012 |
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An August visit to the Kansas Capitol gives hints of how impressive the restoration work will be. Rotunda may be opened before October '12. |
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New stained glass at the Kansas State Capitol | John Steuart Curry's John Brown mural | Governor's door, temporary | Copper columns are everywhere |
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Restored elevator | Skyline detailing | Rotunda under renovation | Rotunda under renovation #2 | Capitol dome copper repair |
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The Eclective (NOTO) has signed Max Yoho books | Under ground level, Harley Davison, Topeka. + Eagle's Nest, west | Outer Spece Room, Topeka Shawnee Co. Public Library |
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First spring flowers, late February, 2012. | Westar's baby falcons. Can watch via live cam some years. | Dome renovation |
SW toward Burnett's Mound from WU, 1-2011 |
Stickwork outside Mulvane by Patrick Dougherty |
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November 18, 2010 | Hallween moon, October, 2010 | Jack-O-Lanterns, Halloween | Evening sky with jet-trails |
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Sunset over Fairlawn Plaza Shopping Center, Nov. 2008 | Prefabricated steel with porcelain-enamel-coated panels. Lustron Corporation constructed 2560 Lustron homes between 1949 and 1950. Read personal memory about building home at right above. See also: NYTimes , 7-18-2008. |
TSCPL, 12-2007 |
Oldest Topeka tree, a locust, Huntoon/ Clay |
Kansas Capitol dome, July 2008 |
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Washburn sunset, Oct. 2005 |
Westboro Neon |
May evening, near sunset, at stone pavillion, Lake Shawnee, Topeka |
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Sunset, early November 2006 |
Sunset, W. 29th St., Sept. 2005 | Sunset, looking west from 7th floor, Stormont-Vail Medical Center, Apr. 2006 | Sunset, April 2006 |
Sunset, April 2006 |
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Above: Coneflowers, Washburn University |
Black-eyed Susans, |
Views from The Palace, converted to apts., downtown |
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Beautiful woodwork, Topeka home | Devon Apartment, 12th & Western, Topeka | ||||
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Topeka Fire Station #7 | Fire Station #7 & truck | Westboro Shopping Area | Southwest corner, Westboro |
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Above & left: Kansas Capitol 4-2005 |
Charles Curtis State Office Building | Capitol dome & fountain | Capitol dome reflection, Curtis Building |
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Fleming Mansion | Construction is ruining SBA Hill | Tower, SBA | Prairie wildflowers, including Kansas sunflowers |
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New underground parking garage, Kansas Capitol. Walkway cut through foundation sandstone of the building. Neat fossils! | Gage Park train runs through the park during nice weather months. |
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Perkins flag |
Sunset 11/6/2004 |
Campanile WU |
Ichabod statue, Moore Bowl, Washburn University |
Washburn U. Student Union |
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Fiftieth Anniversary Commemoration, Brown v Board National Historic Site, Dedicated May 17, 2004. | The ex-Monroe School is now Brown v Brd. National Historic Site |
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Peacock vase and stained glass window are in the Topeka Room of the Topeka-Shawnee Co. Public Library | New "Chandler Pavilion" is located in a small triangular park space between streets just south of the Topeka-Shawnee County Public Library -- incorporates parts from old County Court House | Huge old cottonwood tree grows in a private yard at 18th and Collins. |
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Pet rabbit
visits the Mountain-Plains Art Fair, spring 2003 |
Flying
pig metal sculpture, Mountain-Plains Art Fair, Washburn U. |
Capitol building at sunset, October 2003 |
Capitol
dome, photographed November 2004 |
Spires, St.
Joseph's Church, downtown |
Plenty
of art, Mountain-Plains Art Fair, Washburn University, spring 2003 |
This row of rooms along 10th St. is rental property. I don't know the name, but they are rented as apartments. My dad says that shortly after WWII they were the only space available for rent in town. |
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Budweiser Clydesdales -- summer 2001, state capitol grounds
Ross Row House — 500 block of Van Buren St. , Topeka:
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This dramatic sunset was photographed in mid-October 2000. | The addition to the Public Library is nearing completion. | This building, once the Hotel Kansan, is now private residences. | Old Center Building has been demolished. Was part of the now-closed Topeka State Hospital. |
Shunga Park trail, Oct. 15, 2000. |
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Sculpture in Mulvane Court is by Jim Bass, Topeka. | Mulvane Court is tucked between sections of the Fine Arts building at Washburn U. | Mulvane Court view. | Renovated Blaisdale Swimming Pool, Gage Park. |
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North edge of town, near a family-run produce farm where we buy sweet corn. | This sculpture of an Indian and buffalo is at the center of a fountain located at the Kansas History Museum. | This photo of progress
in construction at the Public Library was taken 8/15/00. |
Washburn University is the nation's only municipally-owned university--owned by the city of Topeka. | Hicks Block. Beautiful Victorian apartment building, built around 1889 at 6th and Tyler. | Eagle, Gage Park. |
from e-mail: I just had a beautiful trip throughout my old hometown! Surfing the site of Topeka I found your pictures. Thank you very much. Many pictures are remembered. I grew up in Topeka and lived there for 23 years when I married and moved eventually to New Hampshire. I miss Topeka and all the old haunts. Will enjoy more if you add them to you show! I am now 78 years old, and still come back to my hometown often. Thanks again. I'm one of the Stolpe Girls. —Eleanore Janetos 3/21/2007 |
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