40 Amazing Photos Capture Kansas Houses and Buildings in the Late 1940s

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Kansas is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its capital is Topeka and its largest city is Wichita. It is a landlocked state bordered by Nebraska to the north; Missouri to the east; Oklahoma to the south; and Colorado to the west. Kansas is named after the Kansas River, which in turn was named after the Kansa Native Americans who lived along its banks.

Houses and buildings around Lawrence, Kansas from 1947 to 1949

For thousands of years, what is now Kansas was home to numerous and diverse Native American tribes. Tribes in the eastern part of the state generally lived in villages along the river valleys. Tribes in the western part of the state were semi-nomadic and hunted large herds of bison.

Kansas, which has an area of 82,278 square miles (213,100 square kilometers) is the 15th-largest state by area and is the 34th most-populous of the 50 states. Residents of Kansas are called Kansans. Mount Sunflower is Kansas’s highest point at 4,039 feet (1,231 meters).

These amazing photos from Lou Horacek were taken by Leo Horacek that show houses and buildings around Lawrence, Kansas (and maybe also in the Topeka area) from 1947 to 1949.