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History of Kensington, Kansas - Centennial Edition, 1987

Fire

In 1909 there was a destructive fire in the hotel building where the Kilmer Hotel is now located, and all the buildings north of it in that block where consumed. They were all frame buildings and housed the Gremmel and Simmons Furniture and Hardware Store, the Golden and Hollister Drug Store and the Citizens State Bank building.

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