Pettit Cleaners Building
Winfield, United States
Exterior only
Visible from the street; the inside is private.
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Located at 114 E. 8th Avenue in Winfield, Kansas, the Pettit Cleaners Building is a commercial structure with a complex building history. The original stone portion dates to approximately 1880, but the structure was substantially remodeled in 1947 when local architect William N. Canton designed the current Streamline Moderne facade. The building, which measures 25 by 145 feet in plan, is configured as a partial one-story and partial two-story structure. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005 and is also registered on the Kansas Register of Historic Places, recognizing its significance as an example of mid-twentieth-century commercial modernization.
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- Built
- Type
- commercial building
- Materials
- stone
- Heritage
- listed on the Register of Historic Kansas Places, National Register of Historic Places listed place
- Place
- Winfield, United States
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