Doctor Judd's Photography

Stone Buildings

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These two photos are taken of the same old house from different angles and obviouilsy different times.  The old house is (or at least WAS) located about 3 or 4 miles west of Phillipsburg, Kansas just off of highway 36.  In this part of the country, particularly in the late 1800s and early 1900s, wood for building was very scarce but limestone was plentiful.  You will find numerous buildings, houses and even fenceposts made from native limestone throughout western Kansas.

This building is (was, actually) an old schoolhouse located about 5 miles north of Hays, Kansas on highway 183.  The building was torn down in the late 1980s or early 1990s.  This one room schoolhouse was typical of rural schoolhouses across the American frontier during the first 150 years of our nation's history.  They began to disappear shortly after World War II when the automobile (and specifically schoolbuses) made it easier to transport students to larger, consolidated schools.

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