A Look at a home from Leavenworth's once famous "Millionaires Row"

From Leavenworth County Historical Society Facebook post

The home at 307 North Broadway Street was built by Dr. Daniel W. Thomas, a former Confederate Army surgeon, in 1880 on Leavenworth's once-famous "Millionaire's Row". Dr. Thomas is said to have used the front sitting room to see his patients. Henry Helmers Jr., son of another early Leavenworth settler and vice-president of his father’s furniture company, the Helmers Manufacturing Co., purchased the home in 1912. 

Built in the Romanesque Classical Revival style, the spacious residence consists of almost 5,000 square feet. The front entrance is finished in oak floors and oak paneling on the walls, ceiling, and main staircase. The dining room has a distinct French chateau flavor and is paneled in cherry hardwood. The sideboard, cabinets, plate rails, and window bench are also of cherry. The stained glass pocket doors are original to the house, as is the chandelier. The original kitchen now serves as the family den and is paneled in beadboard on the walls and ceiling added by the current owner in 2003. 

Like the dining room, the living room is also paneled in cherry hardwood, as are the bookshelves on both sides of the room. The room is decorated to reflect a European theme and is adorned with sentimental possessions collected by members of the Clay family in their travels to Germany, France, and England. Ornate brass door knobs, pocket doors, and cherry hardwood ceiling beams add to the elegance of the home. A hot water heating system installed about 1900 pumps heated water through a series of ornate registers which keep the house warm and cozy during the coldest of east Kansas winters.