page_title: Old Prairie Town at Ward-Meade Historic Site
hierarchical_section_title: Old Prairie Town at Ward-Meade Historic Site
caption_attribution_description: English: 1880 Everest Church
context_page_description: Old Prairie Town at Ward-Meade Historic Site is a 5.5-acre open-air museum, park and historic site located in Topeka, Kansas. Old Prairie Town is a county entity, operated by the Shawnee County, Kansas Parks and Recreation Department with a Recreation Program Supervisor and additional staff plus volunteers.
  The complex includes:
  ​2 ¹⁄₂-acre Ward-Meade Park Botanical Gardens. The gardens were designed by the Topeka Garden Clubs and is now under the care of a full-time horticulture staff of Parks and Recreation.
  The restored 1874 Ward-Meade Mansion, which is on the National Register of Historic Places.
  The replica of the Ward's cabin.
  A developing turn-of-the-century town square called “Prairie Crossings Town Square” and includes:
  1891 Victor Schoolhouse from Rossville
  Santa Fe Depot and Caboose
  Lingo Livery Stable and the newly built Lingo Tack Shop
  The original Charles M. Sheldon study
  1880 Everest Church
  Mulvane General Store, with the bank teller's cage from Georgia Neese Gray's bank. This serves as the gift shop and visitors center.
  Potwin Drugstore, with a working soda fountain and physician's and dental offices on the second floor.
context_section_description: Old Prairie Town at Ward-Meade Historic Site is a 5.5-acre (2.2 ha) open-air museum, park and historic site located in Topeka, Kansas.  Old Prairie Town is a county entity, operated by the Shawnee County, Kansas Parks and Recreation Department with a Recreation Program Supervisor and additional staff plus volunteers.
  The complex includes:
  ​2 ¹⁄₂-acre Ward-Meade Park Botanical Gardens. The gardens were designed by the Topeka Garden Clubs and is now under the care of a full-time horticulture staff of Parks and Recreation.
  The restored 1874 Ward-Meade Mansion, which is on the National Register of Historic Places.
  The replica of the Ward's cabin.
  A developing turn-of-the-century town square called “Prairie Crossings Town Square” and includes: 
  1891 Victor Schoolhouse from Rossville 
  Santa Fe Depot and Caboose
  Lingo Livery Stable (which houses an Oregon Trail exhibit) and the newly built Lingo Tack Shop
  The original Charles M. Sheldon study 
  1880 Everest Church
  Mulvane General Store, with the bank teller's cage from Georgia Neese Gray's bank. This serves as the gift shop and visitors center.
  Potwin Drugstore, with a working soda fountain and physician's and dental offices on the second floor.  Ice cream and soda fountain treats are served in the drugstore.
caption: 1880 Everest Church
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