Lassen Hotel (Wichita, Kansas)
The Lassen Hotel in Wichita, Kansas, also known as Market Centre, was built in 1918. It was designed by architects Richards, McCarty & Bulford. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. It is an 11-story building. Originally it had an L-shaped plan for floors 3 to 11. It was expanded in 1922 by adding a wing that gave the upper floors a U-shaped plan. The building has a 2-story annex that is not included in the NRHP listing. In 1954 a satellite studio of Hutchinson-based television station  KTVH opened in the building. This was the first television station to open that covered Wichita, the state's largest city. KTVH's attempts to provide service to Wichita, in what would become a running theme in the first three decades of station history, rankled the stations licensed there. KAKE radio and television petitioned the FCC in November 1954 to order KTVH to stop identifying as a "Wichita station"; it declined to do so. In 1956, KTVH moved its Wichita facilities out of the Lassen and into quarters formerly used by the defunct KEDD. Between 1968 and 1971, it was  operated as the Radisson Wichita Hotel. In 1971, it was purchased by the Defenders of the Christian Faith and was operated as a retirement home with offices and retail space. It was the subject of the Kansas Supreme Court case, "Defenders of the Christian Faith v. Board of County Commissioners", 219 Kan. 181, 547 P.2d 706 (1976). In 1983, the building was under renovation to become an office building. By 1986 the building was fully renovated from the Lassen Hotel to an office building.