Kansas Central Offices

KANSAS CITY "LENEXA"

Lenexa is another Southern suburb of Kansas City, KS adjacent to Lenexa on its north. AT&T stages cabinets in another site in Lenexa.

KANSAS CITY "SHAWNEE"

Shawnee and Mission are nearly adjacent suburbs of Kansas City KS, southwest of the City. They are both west of the actual “Shawnee Indian Mission State Historic Site” which is in Fairway, KS. This is a very prosperous area of the Kansas City, KS Metroplex.

KANSAS CITY "STANLEY"

The office was a small farm house when Southwestern Bell bought the company in the 1950s. The original Stanley office was the small building on the left rear of this picture. It is home to a Nortel DMS100.

Old Exchanges: STanley

LAWRENCE

It is in the heart of the historic district of this university home to the Kansas Jayhawks. In 1981 the city decided that the radio horns did not look good in this district and they required Southwestern Bell to pour an enormous amount of money into the aesthetic tower before they would allow the placement of additional antenna. I believe the price tag was $1M. The city outgrew the No2 ESS switch here in 1982 so the existing switch was removed and reinstalled in Little Rock Mohawk basement to allow the removal of the No 5 Crossbar to clear the way for the No. 1A ESS switch needed in Mohawk.

This office is also unique in that the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce is located inside the building as shown.

MANHATTAN

Manhattan is the home to Kansas State University.

Old Exchange: FAirchild

MARYSVILLE (ORIGINAL CO)

MARYSVILLE (CURRENT CO)

The new office was built in the 1950s to replace the old office which is now home to a newspaper. It was impossible to do a building addition to the old office so the 355CDO in the old building was replaced by a no. 5 Crossbar in the new building. This city was the first station west of Saint Joseph, MO on the Pony Express route.

Old Exchanges: ELm

OTTAWA

This immaculate little town is 25 miles southwest of Kansas City. It is the county seat for Franklin county and has an impressive Courthouse built in 1893.

TOPEKA "AMHERST"

As you can see it sports the new AT&T logo which is now being widely deployed on offices which had no signage for the last 8 or 9 years. It serves southeast Topeka.

Old Exchanges: AMherst

TOPEKA "JACKSON"

This is the AT&T Central Office which serves the Capitol.

Old Exchanges: JAckson

TOPEKA "JUNCTION"

Houses a remote switch which serves Southwest Topeka.