Wiley Building

Historic Downtown Hutchinson Tour

Wiley Building

Hutchinson, Kansas 67501, United States

Created By: Reno County Museum

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After outgrowing his original location, dry goods dealer Vernon Wiley made plans for a bigger location. In 1912, Wiley bought the Opera House, built in 1882, with plans to raze it. He planned to make the building twice as tall as any other building in Hutchinson. Once completed in 1914, the Rorabaugh-Wiley Company occupied the first four floors of the building while the rest was devoted to rented office space. In the 1930s, the Wiley company built the Fox Theater and in the 1940s, built a bridge over the eastern alley between the two buildings. Renovated in 2015, this building is now an apartment complex.

This point of interest is part of the tour: Historic Downtown Hutchinson Tour


 

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