05/27/2026
What a process this has been - but I’m so thankful to be where we are today and slowly breathing life back into this beautiful downtown fixture.
For Preservation Month we are going to share a composite photo of the A.S. Allen Building at 1401 Main in Great Bend, Kansas. As you can see this building has had many lives and many storefronts over the years. In 2017, the present owners decided to embark on a journey to reverse some of the many horrors that have been done to this building. The worst of these was a 1970s metal mansard roof that covered 2/3 of the front of the building. In 2023 Kansas Main Street was involved and with some design services and some Historic Tax Credits a dramatic transformation took place!
