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Alma, Kansas

  • The Alma Hotel

    The Alma HotelBuilt in the late 1800s, this hotel was originally known as the Brandt Hotel. This hotel sheltered the railroad crews and almost every hotel service for travelers during the years. At one time the hot...
    The Alma Hotel
  • Alma City Office

    Alma City OfficeThis beautiful and stately native stone building was once one of the finest building in town. It was built in the early 1880s by the Limerick Brothers, two red-headed Irishmen. These freckled, Irishme...
    Alma City Office
  • Alma Bakery and Sweet Shoppe

    Alma Bakery and Sweet ShoppeThe north section of this building houses the Farm Bureau Office. This fine stone building is known as the Kearns and Kinne building. The north half of the stone structure was the C.O. Kinne and J.J. ...
    Alma Bakery and Sweet Shoppe
  • Palenske Hall

    Palenske HallA.E. Forinash was a master craftsman, stone mason and cabinetmaker. He was one of the stone masons who did much of the stone work on this building. This fine stone building was at one time a bawdy sal...
    Palenske Hall
  • Alma Antiques

    This beautiful two story stone building, built in the late 1800s originally housed a book store. Notice the date above the small doorway and the beautiful scroll work that is also around the doorway. ...
    Alma Antiques
  • Hendricks Hardware

    This stone building was built in the middle 1870s by Conrad Mueller. It operated as a saloon until Prohibition and then Mr. Mueller went into the hardware business. Currently the Hendricks own and ope...
    Hendricks Hardware
  • Old Conoco Station

    Originally there were three frame buildings at this location. The first one housed a cigar factory, the second a barber shop and the third was offices for J.B. Fields, Realtor. John Degenhardt purchas...
    Old Conoco Station
  • The American Legion Building

    This brick building was built in 1936 as a memorial to the soldiers and sailors of Wabaunsee County. Currently it houses the Ed Palenske Post #32 American Legion and Auxiilary....
    The American Legion Building
  • Wabaunsee High School

    Wabaunsee High SchoolWHS serves the communities of Alma, McFarland, Paxico and Maple Hill. It was constructed in 1938 and is an example of one of the many native stone buildings located in Alma. With its limestone exterio...
    Wabaunsee High School
  • City Well and Log Cabin

    City Well and Log CabinThe City Well is a hand dug well enclosed in a native stone building, which was built in 1930. Well No. 3 was one of seven wells of which three were hand jug wells that supplied water to the City of A...
    City Well and Log Cabin

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Historic Stone Fences

The federal government abolished the open range in a law passed in 1867. The government paid farmers $.40 per rod (16.5 feet) to build and maintain a 4.5

Alma, KS Scenic Drives

Alma United Methodist Church

This wood frame church was built and dedicated to the Glory of God in 1878. The frame building was of a simple design with narrow pointed gothic arched windows and a slender belfry atop the roof, which boasted the first church bell in Alma. In 1906

Alma, KS Historic Churches


Things to do near Alma, KS

Skyline Scenic Drive

A must see drive where one can view Mill Creek and the Flint Hills. This drive is considered one of the most beautiful in the...

Manka Residence

This house was octagon in shape before an addition was built on. The entrance to the house is of particular interest. Two tal...

Louis Vieux Cemetery

Oregan Trail followers can walk along actual trail ruts outside of Wamego and visit the Louis Vieux Cemetery near the banks o...