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Joyce Boswell of Lawrence works at the Kansas State Historical Society in Topeka. Her desk is surrounded by boxes because of overcrowding at the building.
Society requests adequate building
By Derek Schmidt
Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA - The building that houses the Kansas State Historical Society is too small, lacks atmospheric equipment needed to preserve historical documents and is generally an inconvenient place to do research.
That is the assessment of society officials, who are seeking state funds for a new building.
The 1989 Legislature appropriated funds for a new building, but a state budgetary battle could delay construction at least two more years.
The Kansas State Historical Society is the repository for state documents. It houses state archives, manuscripts and a library. The society works to preserve historical sites to preserve history of History and to sponsor archaeological work, said Ramon Powers, executive director of the society.
Donald McCoy, KU professor of history, said the number of people from the University of Kansas who use the historical society collection was limited because of the collection's location outside of Lawrence.
But society officials worry that a delay in new construction could dim that glowing record by damaging documents.
The society has been at 120 W. 10th St., across from the Capitol, since 1914. The society wants a new building, and the state has encouraged it to move.
McCoy said the Kansas society was one of the nation's best, serving as
The 1988 and 1989 Legislatures appropriated a total of $7.9 million to construct a new building for the society at the Kansas Museum of History, Sixth Street and Wanamaker Road, Marmet said. The funds were to be spent in the 1991 and 1992 fiscal years.
But plans for the new building hit a snag Sept. 5 when Michael O'Keefe, state budget director, recommended to Gov. Mike Hayden that the appropriation for a new building be reviewed. O'Keefe recommended delaying construction for two years.
the center of a network of local historical societies in the state.
The society appealed the recommendation to delay financing to the governor. Hayden will announce his decision when he presents his budget to the Legislature in January, O'Keefe said.
The controversy surrounding the promised new building centers on the
cost and design of new storage space.
The society is seeking $33 million in appropriations, the officials said.
Powers said society officials asked the Legislature "million to collect $72,000-separate-fund"
Architects reviewed that proposal and determined that a building that large would cost $14 million to $15 million.
Society officials said they knew the Legislature would not appropriate that much for the project, so they instead proposed constructing a building of 106,000 square feet, the total amount of storage the society now has at all its sites.
but the cost of the same-sized building still was $3.3 million more than the $7.9 million request. To reconcile the difference, society officials said they directed the architect to cut costs by 50 percent by storage space, but to design the building to allow a later addition.
The result is a plan for a building with less storage space than the society has now. Society officials said they could fit more materials into a smaller space in the new building by utilizing its more efficient storage techniques.
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