The Goodnow House is a historic two-story stone house located at 2301 Claflin Road in

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. It was built in 1857 in the ''Plains Vernacular'' style. From 1861 Isaac Goodnow and his wife, Ellen lived in the house. Goodnow was an

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and co-founder of both

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Description

The Goodnow House is a stone structure with gable roofs over a two-story main block and a one-story wing. The rough limestone walls are accented by smooth

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s at the corners. Several additions were made over the years. There is a cellar under the 1857 section.

History

Goodnow and his wife Ellen had no children. Hattie Parkerson, a niece whom they had adopted, inherited the house after Ellen died in 1900. After Hattie's death in 1940, the house was passed to a friend, Mary Payne, who later donated it and many of the Goodnow's belongings to the

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, a state agency which operates it today as the Goodnow House State Historic Site. On February 24, 1971, the Goodnow House was added to the

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. The house "tells the story of free-staters".

References

External links

Goodnow House
at the Kansas State Historical Society *

External links

Goodnow House State Historic Site website
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Kansas Museums in Riley County, Kansas Houses completed in 1857 Kansas state historic sites Historic house museums in Kansas Historic American Buildings Survey in Kansas Houses in Riley County, Kansas National Register of Historic Places in Riley County, Kansas 1857 establishments in Kansas Territory Manhattan, Kansas {{Kansas-NRHP-stub