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July - August 2006 Vol. 28, No. 4 Newsletter of the Cultural Resources Division Kansas State Historical Society Experience the field school at Council Grove through a photo essay and firsthand accounts. This issue also includes the Kansas Preservation Plan insert! Plains Anthropological Conference Coming to Kansas The Plains Anthropological and exhibits rooms, and presentations Conference returns to Kansas Novem- of research results. ber 8-11, 2006. Sponsored by the Honored guest Dr. Schuyler Plains Anthropological Society, the Mead Jones will be the banquet CONTENTS three-day conference is a venue speaker. Dr. Jones was born for archeologists, anthro- and raised on a Sedgwick pologists, and historians County farm and is the 3 studying the Great grandson of James R. The Airplane Bungalow: Plains region to pres- Mead, the founder Midwestern Style ent the results of their of Wichita. Trained research. in anthropology, 7 The Plains with degrees from The Castle on Sixth Avenue Conference Edinburgh and began in 1931 Oxford Universi- as a meeting of ties, Dr. Jones Insert archeologists has traveled Kansas Preservation Plan who converged extensively to compare notes and conducted on the current fieldwork in East 10 season’s field Africa, Afghani- KATP Field School investigations. It stan, Nepal, Photo Essay was held intermit- Greenland, China, tently until 1947 but and Tibet. He is has been held annually the author of several 17-18 ever since. books and a frequent Comaraderie Along with Kansas has hosted the contributor to profes- Education Plains Conference four times sional journals. From 1985 between 1965 and 1991. The Kansas to his retirement in 1997, he was the State Historical Society, the Univer- director of the Pitt Rivers Museum in sity of Kansas, and Washburn Univer- Oxford. In 1999 Dr. Jones returned KANSAS PRESERVATION sity are hosting this year’s conference with his family to settle in Wichita. Published bimonthly by the Cultural Resources in Topeka. The Capitol Plaza Hotel is Dr. Jones edited and published the Division, Kansas State Historical Society, 6425 S.W. the conference headquarters. accounts of James R. Mead in Hunt- Sixth Avenue, Topeka, KS 66615-1099. Conference events include a tour ing and Trading on the Great Plains Please send change of address information of the museum gallery and archeo- 1859-1875. The title of his banquet to the above address or e-mail [email protected]. logical laboratory of the Kansas presentation is “James R. Mead’s State Historical Society, an early Memoir: Some Anthropological and Third-class postage paid at Topeka, Kansas. Jennie Chinn, bird welcome party, field trips to the Historical Considerations.” State Historic Preservation Officer Claussen site in Wabaunsee County Registration information and Virginia Wulfkuhle and Robert Hoard, Editors Tracy Campbell, Editorial/Design Services and the Steamboat Arabia Museum other information, can be found in Kansas City, a banquet, book sales online at plainsanth2006.org. Partial funding for this publication is provided by the National Park Service, Department of the Interior. The contents and opinions do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the Department of the Interior, nor does the mention of trade names or commercial products constitute an endorsement or Volunteer Four Hours, recommendation by the Department of the Interior. Attend Conference for Free This program receives federal funds from the National Park Service. Regulations of the U.S. Interested in volunteering? Volunteers are needed to make the Plains Department of the Interior strictly prohibit unlawful discrimination in departmental federally assisted Anthropological Conference run smoothly. Volunteers carry out a variety of programs on the basis of race, color, national duties, including monitoring rooms and helping with registration. Working origin, age, or handicap. Any person who believes he or she has been discriminated against in any at least a four-hour shift waives the registration fee. If you are interested, program, activity, or facility operated by a recipient of federal assistance should write to: Office of Equal contact volunteer coordinator Virginia Wulfkuhle at (785) 272-8681 Ext. 266 Opportunity, National Park Service, 1849 C Street NW, Washington, DC 20240. or [email protected]. 1 2007 Historic Preservation Fund Workshops The State Historic Preservation obtained at the workshop or by calling Office (SHPO) will host two work- (785) 272-8681 Ext. 245. shops in August focusing on the 2007 The deadline for preliminary grant federal Historic Preservation Fund (HPF) applications is October 2, 2006. Prelimi- The first workshop will grant program and National Register of nary applications, which are reviewed by Historic Places program. The workshops the SHPO staff, are not required but are be in Colby on Thursday, will cover the eligibility requirements highly encouraged. Final applications and application process for the Historic must be postmarked by November 15, August 17. The second Preservation Fund (HPF) grant program 2006, or delivered in person to the SHPO and provide a basic understanding of the by 4:30 p.m. on that date. workshop will take place National Register program. Other topics, For more information, contact Teresa such as the Secretary of Interior’s Stan- Kiss, grants manager, at (785) 272-8681 in the KSHS museum dards for Rehabilitation, state and federal Ext. 215 or [email protected], or visit our tax credits, and the requirements for web site at kshs.org/resource/hpfinfo. classrooms on Thursday, becoming a Certified Local Government, will be explored. The workshop will August 24. conclude with ample time for questions from workshop attendees. This is not a Heritage Trust Fund (HTF) grant workshop. HTF workshops For more information about either of are held September through January and these grant programs, contact Grants are listed on the back cover of this news- Manager Teresa Kiss at (785) 272-8681 letter. Each year the SHPO awards HPF Ext. 215, [email protected], or visit us on grants to organizations, such as historical the web at kshs.org. societies, universities, regional planning commissions, non-profit corporations, and city and county governments, to help support local historic preservation activi- ties. These competitive grants are used to fund historic property surveys; National Register nominations; preservation plans; design-review guidelines; and educa- 2007 Heritage Trust Fund tional activities, such as brochures, local conferences, and workshops. An HPF grant must result in a Grant Applications Available completed, tangible product, and all activities must pertain to the preservation Applications for the 2007 round of Heritage Trust Fund (HTF) grants programs outlined in the National Histor- will be available in early September. The HTF is a state program that ic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended. provides matching funds for the preservation of properties listed on the The grant monies may be used to fund up to 60 percent of project costs. The National Register of Historic Places or the Register of Historic Kansas Plac- other 40 percent (recipient match) must es. This is a competitive grant program. be furnished by the project sponsor and may be provided through cash or in-kind The deadline for applications in this round of grants is March 1, 2007. services and materials. To be eligible for funding, applications must be complete and postmarked by The first workshop will be in Colby on Thursday, August 17, 9 a.m.–12 p.m., the stated deadline. If an application is hand delivered, it must be received in at the Prairie Museum of Art and History, the State Historic Preservation Office by 4:30 p.m. on March 1, 2007. Final 1905 S. Franklin Avenue. The second workshop will take place selection of projects will be made at the spring meeting of the Kansas Histor- in the museum classrooms of the Kansas ic Sites Board of Review. History Museum in Topeka on Thursday, August 24, 9 a.m.–12 p.m. A map is Preliminary applications, due January 15, 2007, are not required but are available at kshs.org/places/khc/map. encouraged. Grant application workshops will be held in locations around Reservations for the workshops are the state as listed on the back cover of this newsletter. Dates and locations not required, but in the interest of ensur- ing sufficient seating, please contact for the workshops will be enclosed in the application packet. Cindi Vahsholtz at (785) 272-8681 Ext. To be placed on the mailing list, please call (785) 272-8681 Ext. 245. 245 with attendance information. Applications for the 2007 Historic Preservation Fund grants may be 2 The Airplane Bungalow Midwestern Style 3 A Midwestern airplane bungalow. Note the second floor sleeping porch at the rear. During the early 1900s, the bunga- airplane bungalow had “a unique design low heyday in California, a wide range of (that) created an actual plane of air” for n any given variations on the basic bungalow pattern cooling. The McAlesters, however, spec- appeared. One of the less common–but ulate that the name airplane bungalow Saturday in still very striking–varieties is the airplane arises either from the panoramic view O (or aeroplane) bungalow, which typically afforded by the second story, or because Topeka you can open the features a large, gabled one-story front the small second story to the rear of the section and a wide two-story section house looked similar to a cockpit riding home sales section of the at the rear of the house. The roof lines over the wings of the roof of the main are low and sweeping, sometimes even block. newspaper and find several curved, suggesting an Asian influence. Airplane bungalows are not These California airplane bungalows commonly found in house plan books of ads for houses described were big and beautiful, and probably out the 1920s. In the compilation of house of the reach of the working class.