E. A. and Ura Wharton House
Manhattan, United States
Exterior only
Visible from the street; the inside is private.
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The E. A. and Ura Wharton House in Manhattan, Kansas, built in 1897, exemplifies Shingle style residential architecture of the era. The first story is constructed from native limestone quarried by William and Edward Ulrich, while the upper portions employ shingle cladding characteristic of the style. Edward Augustus Wharton, who relocated to Manhattan from Pennsylvania in 1880, was a merchant and civic figure; his wife, Ura Burgoyne (Higinbotham) Wharton, was a native of the town. The home's architect remains uncertain, though professor J. D. Walters of Kansas State Agricultural College may have been involved—a 1902 student newspaper article noted his class visit to view the "model residence," praising its arrangement of modern conveniences. After E. A. Wharton's death in 1939 and Ura's in 1941, the house passed to Ura's sister with instructions to bequeath it to the Christian Scientist Church of Manhattan, which used it from 1955 until 1956. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.
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- Built
- Type
- house
- Materials
- stone
- Heritage
- listed on the Register of Historic Kansas Places, National Register of Historic Places listed place
- Place
- Manhattan, United States
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