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Lawrence was the first city in Kansas to enact an ordinance prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation (enacted in 1995, after a campaign called Simply Equal). On October 4, 2011, Lawrence became the first city in Kansas to prohibit discrimination based on gender identity with the passage of City Ordinance No. 8672. [241]
Lawrence's Downtown Historic District comprises the commercial core of Lawrence, Kansas. The district comprises areas along Massachusetts Street between 6th Street and South Park Street. Nearly all of the contributing structures are masonry commercial buildings, typically with display windows at street level and smaller windows at upper levels.
In 2014, Mass Street was named the most popular tourist attraction in Kansas by TripAdvisor. [3] The 900 block of Massachusetts Street, 2009 The Eldridge Hotel, 2004. The 600 through 1200 block of Massachusetts is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places under Lawrence's Historical District. Most of the buildings were built ...
Douglas County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kansas.Its county seat and most populous city is Lawrence. [3] As of the 2020 census, the county population was 118,785, [1] making it the fifth-most populous county in Kansas.
The Kansas City-Overland Park-Kansas City MO-KS (USA) Combined Statistical Area (CSA) encompasses the Metropolitan statistical areas (MSA) of Kansas City MO-KS, the St. Joseph metropolitan area and the Lawrence, Kansas metropolitan area with the Micropolitan Statistical Areas (μSA) of Warrensburg, Missouri, Atchison, Kansas, and Ottawa, Kansas.
Old Lawrence City Hall: Old Lawrence City Hall: February 24, 1971 : 1047 Massachusetts St. Lawrence: Built 1885-88 for Watkins National Bank; city hall, 1929-1970; Watkins Community Museum since 1975. 67: Old Lawrence City Library
The Kansas River in confluence with the Missouri in Kansas City, Kansas with Kansas City, Missouri in the background. The Kansas River at Lawrence, Kansas, aerial view from the north with Lake View Lake (the oxbow lake in the right foreground) and I-70 crossing. The first map showing the Kansas River is French cartographer Guillaume de L'Isle's ...
Map of the United States with Kansas highlighted Kansas is a state located in the Midwestern United States . According to the 2023 United States Census estimate its population is 2,940,546 and Kansas has a growth rate of 0.09% annually, which ranks 31st among all 50 states.