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THE BUILDING at 1040 New Hampshire St., built in 1870 as English Lutheran Church, now houses a variety of offices.
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Haskell names new leader ——
University picks internal candidate Venida Chenault for top position By Sara Shepherd sshepherd@ljworld.com
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nymore, a church bell pealing at 11th and New Hampshire streets doesn’t mean Sunday services are about to begin. An attorney who just won a case is probably pulling that bell rope — an attorney who happens to work in a more-sacred-than-average office building.
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The English Lutheran Church at 1040 New Hampshire St. is one of several pre-1900 Lawrence churches finding new life as homes or businesses after once-thriving congregations abandoned them. Tenants love the typically light, airy spaces. Architecture buffs love seeing the
TOM HARPER, OF LAWRENCE, sands wood planks during recent construction work at the former Life Tabernacle Church, 1146 Connecticut St. Harper is renovating the 1100-square-foot space into a unique, single-family residence. unique buildings carry on, despite often costly and challenging renovations. “Buildings can’t really be maintained if they have no purpose,” said architectural historian Dennis Domer, a faculty member in Kansas University’s School of Archi-
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tecture, Design and Planning. “But if you repurpose them, you can save them.” Small churches once boomed on corners throughout Lawrence’s residential areas, Domer said. They were well attended, often by ethnic populations living in
the neighborhoods where they were built. Some churches outgrew their small homes and moved, Domer said. Others faced major building repairs and opted to relocate instead of taking Please see CHURCHES, page 5A
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Guide for interns stops short of rules on perfume, other items
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For a photo gallery and an interactive map featuring Instagram images of some of Lawrence’s old churches, find this story online at LJWorld. com.
Haskell Indian Nation University’s next president is a longtime school insider, a trait she says will help her be effective in the position. Venida Chenault, Haskell’s vice president of academic affairs since 2004, will become the school’s president effec- Chenault tive Sunday, the federal Bureau of Indian Education announced Friday. Chenault, a Lawrence resident, attended Haskell as a student and has held several faculty and administrative positions at the school dating to 1991. She said her love for the university, its potential and its long history in Indian education are among reasons she wanted to be its president. “I have witnessed from multiple vantage points the difference that Haskell
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Topeka (ap) — The new guide for legislative interns at the Kansas Capitol does not contain proposed revisions that would have restricted the amount of perfume and number of earrings interns can wear. Numerous rules suggested last week for inclusion in the 2014 intern handbook by Rep. Peggy Mast, an Emporia Republican, were edited out, including a rule asserting that “inappropriate” photographs and language had to be deleted from personal social media sites. The handbook also doesn’t have suggested mandates on the quantity of perfume and cologne, “over the top” hair coloring, Please see FASHION, page 2A
Kindergarten funding A Kansas legislative leader says a full-day kindergarten proposal is “a very complicated issue.” Page 3A
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