This page is about Emporia-related restorations. Or Emporia-related real-estate needing restoration. Or Emporia-related real-estate that I just like. Or just cool stuff in Emporia.
Emporia, Kansas, is a city of 25,000 people, and right in the middle of America.
I have always liked the name Emporia. It has a nice 19th-century flavor.
The Why of the Buy
Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans — John Lennon The powerful truth of this well-known quote has made itself evident to me many times. While I furiously make plans, life often saunters in from nowhere and bashes me in the head with its own agenda. I really hate this. Life did it again in…
Continue ReadingLooking for Mr. Squires
The Cross House was designed by architect Charles W. Squires. But who was Squires? I can only find scant historical documentation, and would love to learn more. Charles Wesley Squires was in born Southampton Township, Long Island, New York on February 5, 1851, and lived there until 1870 when he left for Columbus, Ohio, to study…
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