From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for June 1, 1989:

In their attempt to place a Lawrence structure on the National Register of Historic places, members of the Lawrence Preservation Alliance were facing opposition from the building’s owner. An owner’s objection would disqualify a building from gaining a place on the national register, according to Martha Hagedorn-Krass, an architectural historian with the Kansas State Historical Society. A lack of owner consent was also a difficult, although not impossible, obstacle for placing a building on the Kansas register, she added. The Chelsea Group, developers of the Lawrence Riverfront Plaza and owners of the 97-year-old barbed wire building, so far had not given the nomination effort its blessing. “Obviously, it’s not our intention to put it on [the register] at this time or we would have worked with the preservation alliance,” Chelsea spokesman David Longhurst said. Longhurst maintained that it was too early to nominate the building to the two registers and that the Chelsea Group would be better off first identifying a tenant and then making renovation plans in conjunction with the tenant and state preservationists.