250 Douglas Place

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250 Douglas Place
250 Douglas Place, Garvey Center, night.jpg
250 Douglas Place
General information
StatusComplete
Typecommercial office, residential, restaurant
LocationWichita, Kansas
Coordinates37°41′13″N 97°20′25″W / 37.68694°N 97.34028°W / 37.68694; -97.34028Coordinates: 37°41′13″N 97°20′25″W / 37.68694°N 97.34028°W / 37.68694; -97.34028
Completed1969
Opening1969
Height
Roof262 ft (80 m)
Technical details
Floor count26

250 Douglas Place (also known as the Garvey Center[1]) is a high-rise apartment community. It is the second tallest building in Wichita as well as in the state of Kansas. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021.[2]

The Garvey Center was completed in 1969.

From 1969 until 1987, it was the tallest building in Wichita, until the Epic Center was constructed, it still has the most number of floors of any building in the state.[3]

On August 11, 1976, Michael Soles, an unemployed welder from Sand Springs, Oklahoma, set up a sniper position on the roof of the Holiday Inn Plaza, as the building was then named. Over the course of an eleven-minute shooting spree, he killed 3 and wounded 6. The gunman was wounded by police and taken into custody.[4]

250 Douglas Place in 1999, then known as the Garvey Center.

The building appeared the 1976 film King Kung Fu (a low budget knock-off of King Kong).[5]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Garvey Center Homepage". Garvey Center. Retrieved 8 April 2015.
  2. ^ "Weekly listing". National Park Service.
  3. ^ "250 Douglas Place". Emporis.com. Retrieved 2009-07-27.
  4. ^ "Wichita Sniper Kills Three Men, Wounds Six". Spokane Daily Chronicle. 12 August 1976. p. 11.
  5. ^ Cooper, Beth (2011). Wichita haunts. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing. p. 43. ISBN 9780738582870.
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