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LAWRENCE
Historic house now open to public for guided tours
BY DAVID UGARTE
dugarte@kansan.com
A historic landmark in east Lawrence is now open to the public from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays through September 21.
The Murphy-Bromelsick House, located at the corner of 10th and Delaware Streets in Hobbs Memorial Park, was built in the 1860s after the infamous raid by William Quantrill. John Speer, one of the little-known founders of Lawrence, constructed the house between 1866 and 1869.
Mark Kaplan, Lawrence preservation activist, said John Speer was the first newspaper publisher in Kansas in the 1860s and a radical abolitionist. He said Speer was one of the first advocates for having a university built in Lawrence. However, Kaplan said Speer's influence in Lawrence and Kansas history had gone almost
totally unnoticed.
"Speer was way,way ahead of his time," Kaplan said. "He's like a giant in Kansas history, but nobody knows about him."
John Speer's great-great-grandson, Marty Speer, shows the Murphy-Bromelsick house to anyone interested in the history of Lawrence and the historic events in Kansas that led to the Civil War. Inside the old brick house, Marty Speer has a collection of black and white photos of his great-great-grandfather and other Lawrence founders as well as maps, documents and other pieces of Lawrence history.
"I'm here to carry on John Speer's legacy," Marty Speer said. "There is an extreme amount of history here that is untapped."
What he most proudly displays is the giant re-creation of an original document he keeps at home, called
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