page_title: John Keys Winchell
section_title: Work
hierarchical_section_title: John Keys Winchell / Work
caption_attribution_description: English: Photo of the Thomas P. Kennard &amp; John Gillespie Houses in Lincoln, Nebraska; as seen looking east-southeast from the Nebraska State Capitol in 1872.
context_page_description: John Keys Winchell was an architect in Chicago who worked on buildings in Nebraska's then newly designated capitol of Lincoln. He designed the state's first insane asylum. He also designed the Thomas P. Kennard House for the state's first secretary of state and Butler Mansion for Nebraska Governor David Butler in Lincoln, Nebraska.
  The Butler House was used by a Klavern of the KKK before the great depression, was then a clubhouse for a golf course, and was also a radio station and Ideal Grocery before being razed by 1960. Winchell designed houses for all three commissioners who oversaw the relocation of Nebraska's Capitol from Omaha to Lincoln, including the Thomas Kennard house. It is the oldest extant building in the original plat of Lincoln, Nebraska. It was designated the Nebraska Statehood Memorial in 1965.
  A May 27, 1875 news brief in the Sacramento Daily Union described Winchell as the architect of Nevada's state capitol grounds and building. Other sources credit the Nevada State Capitol to Joseph Gosling, a San Francisco architect.
context_section_description: Thomas P. Kennard House (1869) at 1627 H. Street
  John Gillespie (auditor) House (1869)
  David Butler House (1869) for Nebraska Governor David Butler
  Nebraska Asylum for the Insane (1870), burned down in 1871
  State Prison in Reno, Nevada
  Bigelow House Hotel (1871), destroyed by the Great Chicago Fire in 1871
  Nye County Courthouse (1875)
caption: Kennard and Gillespie houses in 1872
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