Atchison County Historical Museum

Atchison is a city and county seat of Atchison County, Kansas, United States, along the Missouri River. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 10,885. The city is named in honor of US Senator David Rice Atchison from Missouri and was the original eastern terminus of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. Atchison is also the home of Benedictine College.

The A. J. Harwi House is a historic two-story house in Atchison, Kansas. It was built in 1886 for Alfred Jonathan Harwi, the founder of the A. J. Harwi Hardware and vice president of Atchison's Exchange National Bank. His son Frank purchased the Francis and Harriet Baker House, also listed on the NRHP. The house was designed in the Victorian architectural style. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since May 6, 1975.

The Price Villa is a historic house in Atchison, Kansas. It was built in 1872 for John M. Price, a politician. It was acquired by Benedictine Sisters in 1877, and it became home to Mount St. Scholastica College's Music department.The house was designed by architects Thomas Wise and F. W. MeLaughlif in the Renaissance style. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since March 16, 1972.

The Campbell Chapel AME Church is a church at 715 Atchison Street in Atchison, Kansas. It was built in 1878 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.It is a one-story gable-front south-facing church built of red brick in 1878. Its exterior was stuccoed and painted white in 1919. A limestone staircase in front was added in the 1950s.

The McInteer Villa is a historic house in Atchison, Kansas. It was built in 1889-1890 for an Irish immigrant. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Trinity Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church in Atchison, Kansas. The church building was constructed in 1866. Aviator Amelia Earhart was baptized in the church in 1897 and attended the church as a child. She was born nearby in the Amelia Earhart Birthplace. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

The W. W. Hetherington House is a historic house in Atchison, Kansas. It was built in 1879 for Webster Wirt Hetherington, the second president of Atchison's Exchange National Bank, founded by his father William.The house was designed in the Romanesque architectural style by Alfred Meier. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since July 12, 1974.

Ebenezer Baptist Church is a church at 826 Riley in Atchison, Kansas. It was built during the period from 1911 to about 1923. In 1911 they benefited from the generosity of either Andrew Carnegie or John Rockefeller to acquire their pipe organ. They had written to both men; and the organ company received a check, but from whom remains unknown ("the flock does not know whether to thank the oil magnate or the ironmaster"). It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. The building was deemed notable in architecture:as a very good example of the Gothic Revival style. This masonry structure has well-executed stained glass gothic windows, distinctive use of limestone articulating windows, entrances, buttresses, blind flowing tracery details, and interior wood trim and ceilings. The building exemplifies the attention that was paid to craft and utility and form that expresses the interior shape. The sanctuary level of the building is emphasized with the use of stained glass windows and the stairwell stained glass windows leading up to the sanctuary. Opposite of the chancery is the memorial stained glass window dedicated to Reverend William Strothers, who designed the church building and served as the pastor from 1881 to 1913.

The Atchison County Courthouse, located at the southwest corner of 5th and Parallel Streets in Atchison, is the seat of government of Atchison County, Kansas. The stone courthouse was built from 1896 to 1897 and replaced the county's first courthouse, which had been built in 1859. County officials wanted the courthouse to resemble the Franklin County Courthouse in Ottawa, so they hired that building's architect, George P. Washburn, to design the new courthouse. Washburn designed the building in the Romanesque Revival style. The courthouse's design features four corner towers, including a seven-story clock tower. The main entrance to the courthouse has a porch within a large arch; the doorway is contained in a smaller arch. The building has a hip roof with intersecting gable dormers; the towers have pyramidal roofs.The courthouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 16, 1975.

The Frederick W. Stein House is a historic house in Atchison, Kansas. It was built in 1948 for Frederick W. Stein, the founder and president of the Steinlite Corporation, and his wife, née Helen Moore. Stein's company sold the Steinlite Moisture Tester. By the late 1940s, Stein served as Atchison's mayor.The house was designed by George J. Davidson and G. Alden Krider in the Classical Revival architectural style. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since January 14, 2004.

The Robert L. Pease House is a historic house in Atchison, Kansas. It was built in 1879 for Robert L. Pease, the cashier of the Bank of the State of Kansas. He later worked for the National Mail Company. Pease lived in the house with his wife, Amanda Van Atta Skidmore.The house was designed in the Italianate architectural style. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since August 26, 1983.

The Amelia Earhart Birthplace is a historic building and museum that was the birthplace of aviatrix Amelia Earhart. It is located at 223 N. Terrace St. in Atchison, Kansas, United States. The house was built in 1861 in a Gothic Revival style and is on a bluff overlooking the Missouri River. There was one major addition to the home in 1873, during which the formal dining room, cook's quarters, and a back porch were added. In 1897 Amelia Earhart was born in the home, which belonged to her maternal grandfather, Alfred Gideon Otis (1827–1912), a former judge, president of the Atchison Savings Bank, and a leading citizen in Atchison. The Earhart family attended nearby Trinity Episcopal Church, where Amelia was baptized. The birthplace was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971, and is now a museum featuring memorabilia and artifacts about Amelia Earhart. The house served as a private residence until 1984 when a local citizen, Dr. Eugene J. Bribach, contributed $100,000 to the Ninety-Nines to acquire the property. Since 1984 the building has been maintained by the Ninety-Nines, an international group of female pilots of whom Amelia was the first elected president.