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250 Douglas Place (also known as the Garvey Center) is a high-rise apartment community. It is the second tallest building in Wichita as well as in the state of
Kansas Kansas () is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its capital is Topeka, and its largest city is Wichita. Kansas is a landlocked state bordered by Nebraska to the north; Missouri to the east; Oklahoma to the south; and Colorado to the ...
. It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
in 2021. The Garvey Center was completed in 1969. From 1969 until 1987, it was the tallest building in Wichita, until the
Epic Center The Epic Center is a high-rise building located at 301 N. Main St. in Wichita, Kansas. At 320 feet (top floor)/ 385 feet (tip of sloped roof), it is the tallest building in the state of Kansas. The tallest structure in the state is the KWCH 1 ...
was constructed, it still has the most number of floors of any building in the state. On August 11, 1976, Michael Soles, an unemployed welder from
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, 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. The building appeared the 1976 film '' King Kung Fu'' (a low budget knock-off of ''
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'').


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List of tallest buildings in Wichita This List of tallest buildings in Wichita ranks high-rises from a starting point of at least tall, based on standard height measurement. This measurement includes architectural details (such as spires), but this does not include Radio m ...
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List of tallest buildings by U.S. state The following is a list of the tallest buildings by U.S. state and territory. Forty are in their state's largest city, and 18 are in their capital city. The tallest building in the U.S. by architectural height is currently One World Trade Cent ...
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Sedgwick County, Kansas __NOTOC__ This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Sedgwick County, Kansas. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Sedgwick County, Kan ...


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Apartment buildings in Kansas Buildings and structures in Wichita, Kansas Office buildings in Kansas Residential skyscrapers in Kansas Skyscrapers in Kansas National Register of Historic Places in Sedgwick County, Kansas 1969 establishments in Kansas Residential buildings completed in 1969 {{Kansas-struct-stub