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VIEW OF SOUTH AND EAST SIDES. VIEW TO NORTHWEST - Fletcher-Switzer House, Washington and Second Streets, Nicodemus, Graham County, KS
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VIEW OF SOUTH AND EAST SIDES. VIEW TO NORTHWEST - Fletcher-Switzer House, Washington and Second Streets, Nicodemus, Graham County, KS
Description
Fletcher, Z T; Switzer, Fred; Switzer, Ora; St. Francis Hotel; Fly, La Barbara Wigfall, field team; Hamilton, Kenneth M, field team; Prucha, Marion L, field team; Van Dyke, Bettina C, field team; Everett, J Keith, project manager; Tiller, deTeel Patterson, project manager; Fraser, Clayton B, photographer; McNamara, Richard W, delineator; Parr, Ruth K, delineator; Fly, Everett L, delineator
Depicted place Kansas; Graham County; Nicodemus
Date Documentation compiled after 1933
Dimensions 4 x 5 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Accession number
HABS KANS,33-NICO,1-G-4
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • See HABS No. KS-49 for list of structures that are contributing to the historic district and fieldnotes.
  • Significance: The Fletcher-Switzer site was an important focus of activity on the Nicodemus town-site. The existing house and outbuildings are remnants of a complex with historic origins and functions. The house is one of the few remaining examples of early residential architecture left on the town-site. The first owner of the site was Z.T. Fletcher who was secretary of the colony which arrived in Nicodemus in July 1877. He and his wife lived in a dugout on the northwest corner of Block 12; Lot 12. There he opened a post office and she ran a school. In 1880, Fletcher built the St. Francis Hotel on Lot 10 and a livery stable on Lots 13 and 14. A limestone structure was eventually built around the dugout where they continued the post office until 1886 and ran an emporium while living in a residence on Block 14. After rail service failed to materialize, he sold his town lots to the original promoter, W.R. Hill, but continued to run the businesses. The site reverted to Graham County for a time but was bought back into the family in the 1920's by Fred Switzer, a great nephew raised by the Fletchers. When Switzer married Ora Wellington in 1921 they made the hotel their home. He farmed in the township and she ran a restaurant in the residence and later rented out the bunk house.
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-6
  • Survey number: HABS KS-49-G
  • Building/structure dates: 1880 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: ca. 1921 Subsequent Work
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This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 76000820.
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ks0124.photos.069537p
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Camera location39° 23′ 35.52″ N, 99° 36′ 47.52″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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