page_title: Goodnow House
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Goodnow House / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Eastern facade of the Isaac Goodnow House, a historic house in Manhattan, Riley County, Kansas, United States. Built in 1857, the house was added to the National Register of Historic Places as the "Goodnow House" on 24 February 1971.
context_page_description: The Goodnow House is a historic 2-story stone house located at 2301 Claflin Road in Manhattan, Kansas, United States. It was built in 1861 in the Plains Vernancular style. From 1861 Isaac Goodnow and his wife, Ellen lived in the house, until Isaac's death in 1894. Goodnow was an abolitionist and co-founder of both Kansas State University and Manhattan.
context_section_description: Goodnow and his wife Ellen had no children. Hattie Parkerson, a niece whom they had adopted, inherited the house after Isaac died in 1894.  After Hattie's death in 1940, the house was passed to a friend, Mary Payne, who later donated it and many of the Goodnow's belongings to the Kansas Historical Society, a state agency which operates it today as the Goodnow House State Historic Site.
  On February 24, 1971, the Goodnow House was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
caption: Goodnow House in June 1958 prior to restoration.
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