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Koehn Construction Services completed the full restoration and adaptive reuse of a 137-year-old, three-story masonry building in downtown Fort Scott, Kansas. Vacant for nearly 40 years and damaged by two fires, the building had deteriorated to the point that the roof and interior floors had collapsed — only the historic masonry exterior remained standing.
Rebuilding Inside A Historic Shell
The project rebuilt nearly everything within the historic masonry shell: new floors, roof systems, interior walls, storefront windows and doors, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire suppression, and elevator systems, all while preserving the exposed brick that defines the interior. KCS self-performed a 2,000 SF interior concrete slab on metal deck, a new structural steel mezzanine and balcony with concrete deck, a structural steel staircase, roughly 250 linear feet of steel handrail, and the wood-framed second-floor deck and roof trusses.
The completed renovation turned a vacant, deteriorating structure into a functional mixed-use property: roughly 2,000 SF of second-floor space for an ice cream parlor, and roughly 2,000 SF of third-floor residential space split into two units.
They were fun to work with. They were eager. It was exciting. When they can make a project exciting, it makes it fun for everybody. And we're very pleased.
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