Midwest
Lawrence
Douglas County, KS
Population
95,103
Walk Score
97 · Walker's Paradise
Median rent
$1,038
Median home value
$247,300
Founded
1854
On the National Register
Historic districts
- Baker Wetlands (TCP)
- Baker Wetlands (Under Applicable Criterion A)
- Breezedale Historic District · listed 2008
- East Lawrence Industrial Historic District (Additional Documentation) · listed 2007
- East Lawrence Industrial Historic District (Boundary Increase) · listed 2022
- Hancock (12th Street) Historic District · listed 2004
- Haskell Agricultural Farm Property
- Haskell Institute · listed 1966
- Johnson Block Historic District · listed 2019
- Lawrence's Downtown Historic District · listed 2004
- North Rhode Island Street Historic Residential District · listed 2004
- Old West Lawrence Historic District · listed 1972
- Oread Historic District · listed 2007
- Oregon-California Trail Segments (Additional Documentation) · listed 2016
- Pinkney I Historic District (Additional Documentation) · listed 2004
- Pinkney II Historic District (Additional Documentation) · listed 2004
- South Rhode Island and New Hampshire Street Historic Residential District · listed 2004
- Trinity Lutheran Historic District · listed 2024
- University of Kansas East Historic District (Additional Documentation) · listed 2014
- University of Kansas Historic District (Additional Documentation) · listed 2013
Notable landmarks
- Achning, Ralph and Cloyd, House · listed 1987
- Bailey Hall · listed 2001
- Beal, George Malcom, House · listed 2015
- Bell, George and Annie, House · listed 1983
- Benedict House · listed 1992
- Blood, Col. James, House · listed 1972
- Chewning House · listed 2019
- Chi Omega Sorority House
- Clinton School District 25 · listed 1998
- Double Hyperbolic Paraboloid House · listed 2007
- Douglas County Courthouse · listed 1975
- Duncan, Charles, House · listed 1986
- Dyche Hall, University of Kansas · listed 1974
- Eldridge House Hotel · listed 1986
- English Lutheran Church · listed 1995
- Fernand-Strong, House · listed 2008
- First Methodist Episcopal Church · listed 2019
- First Presbyterian Church · listed 2024
- French, Charles & Elizabeth Haskell, House · listed 2012
- Friends’ Place
- Friends’ Place · listed 2025
- Goodrich, Eugene F., House · listed 2001
- Green Hall, University of Kansas · listed 1974
- Greenlee, Michael D., House · listed 2004
- Griffin, Andrew Jackson (A.J.) and Mary Carrol, House
- …and 41 more
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