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Dossier 0854Historic SiteMedium 62

Owens House

Lawrence, Kansas3212 Rochester Road1 min readFile amended Directions

Owens House is a historic site in Lawrence, Kansas, a National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom listing. NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad. HauntHunt files it with dark history, Underground Railroad history and the Underground Railroad. The dossier holds 2 documented facts — the record is history-forward, no paranormal claims on file. Access is restricted — check current rules before planning anything.

Archive note: 4 conflicting records
Status
Operating
Designation
National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom listing
Coordinates
38.960, -95.265 · Approximate (city centroid)
County
Shawnee

NPS public listing access field: No. This is a listing snapshot; current arrangements still require confirmation.

Is Owens House haunted?

No claims are filed here — the record keeps this place for its documented history, not for a haunting on file.

The record — long form

Owens House is the last — the 'January '59' that's the Brown's final, the 'Shawnee County' that's the last county crossed. The 'breakfast asked' is the told — the 'Packards waked' that's the memoir's detail, the 'gone before dawn' that's the station's rhythm. The 'Rhode Island' is the moved — the 'Owen abolitionist' that's the '56 built, the 'trading post' that's the cover worked.

The '23 depots' is the counted — the 'Puff's map' that's the network dense, the 'never lost one' that's the county's claim. The 'fire then razed' is the gone — the ''09 burned' that's the near-miss, the ''15 demolished' that's the final loss. Owens is the documented — the 'certified' that's the NTF verified, the 'Brown slept' that's the guest recorded.

The file keeps Owens: Brown's last night, the pre-dawn breakfast, the 23-depot map, and the house lost twice.

Owens House is the archive's Kansas file — John Brown's last bed in Shawnee County.

Why this file matters

Owens House is the archive's Kansas file — where Brown slept his last free Kansas night.

A site keeps its night — the file's suggestion being that Owens' hold is the final: the 'January '59' that's the last trip, the 'breakfast before dawn' that's the memoir's detail, and the 'demolished '15' that's the house gone.

Two accounts on file

Short Description
On file

NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad.

Also reported

The Owens house—the family’s station.

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Public Access
On file

RESTRICTED

Also reported

PUBLIC

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Historic Designation
On file

National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom listing

Also reported

NPS Network to Freedom

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Research Notes
On file

Government-registry discovery record, unique ID 17KS01, source row 349. Inclusion concerns slavery, freedom-seeking and resistance history; no haunting is inferred. City, coordinates and detailed history are not inferred from the name. The source Year Established field is not treated as year built/opened.

Also reported

UGRR enrichment wave 4; VERIFY task auto-queued.

Preserve both source-backed variants; no automatic overwrite.

Documented history

  • NPS includes this site in the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom. Owens House's past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer the museum itself interprets. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. The detail is preserved in 'Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01'. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from.

    Verified historyNational Park Service
  • Owens House is documented on the National Park Service Network to Freedom for its role in the Underground Railroad. A documented site gives the file real substance; this entry is part of that record. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. The detail is preserved in 'NPS Network to Freedom listing'. It is the kind of fact the rest of the dossier leans on.

    Verified historyNational Park Service

Sources on file

Field notes & open questions

Government-registry discovery record, unique ID 17KS01, source row 349. Inclusion concerns slavery, freedom-seeking and resistance history; no haunting is inferred. City, coordinates and detailed history are not inferred from the name. The source Year Established field is not treated as year built/opened.

"Owens House." HauntHunt dossier 0854, https://haunthunt.com/place/owens-house-kansas/ (file amended October 2, 2026).

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