Changes to the Pottawatomie County Courthouse — including demolition — must first meet the approval of the Kansas State Historical Society.
Patrick Zollner, division director of cultural resources for the historical society, delivered this message Monday to the Pott County Commission.
Officials invited Zollner to Monday’s meeting to explain the commission’s structural authority over the courthouse and the nearby stone jail, both of which were listed early last year on both the Kansas and National Register of Historic Places.
(Read more: Parsons Sun)