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Tower and Power Plant

Security Benefit Association Hospital Building at 5800 SW 6th .5 miles NW on private road in Topeka, Kansas. It is also known as the SBA or Menninger Tower Building. The building was completed in 1930. The 140 foot high clock tower is its central feature. Also visible is the Security Benefit Association Power Plant

 

Originally built as the iconic building of the Security Benefit Association Hospital, a leading hospital. In 1961 the building and the entire SBA complex was purchased by the Menninger Foundation. In 2002 the Menninger Foundation left Topeka for Houston. In 2008 St. Francis Health Center purchased the property to build a future hospital.

 

NRIS #05001341. Added in 2005.

 

For more information:

www.kshs.org/resource/national_register/nominationsNRDB/S...

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Uploaded on May 15, 2011
Taken on May 14, 2011