Flagpole installation inLawrence, KS

Flagpoles in Lawrence

A university town built on a hill, with a downtown that has stayed a real high street and a research and light-industry belt out along the highways. We cover Lawrence and the Douglas County area, including Mount Oread and the University of Kansas campus along Jayhawk Boulevard, Allen Fieldhouse, Massachusetts Street downtown, Haskell Indian Nations University, the Kansas River levee and North Lawrence, East Hills Business Park and the K-10 corridor west of town.

Wind here. Lawrence sits in a hilly and wind-exposed area, which works out to roughly 110 mph under the code your town uses. That figure decides how wide and how thick the pole has to be, so we check it against your address before we quote. Lawrence looks at historic work closely, and the reach of it surprises people: a Certificate of Appropriateness can be wanted not only on a listed building or inside a district but on a property standing near one. Downtown lays its own design guidelines over the top of that, so an address near Massachusetts Street goes to the Historic Resources Commission on height and position before anything is ordered. Then there is the hill. Mount Oread is a genuine rise between the Kansas and the Wakarusa valleys, and the crest meets wind the bottomland never sees, so a pole on Jayhawk Boulevard is not figured on the same assumption as one in North Lawrence. The rock under that crest is the Oread Limestone, named for the hill itself, and hard enough that a foundation up there is cut rather than drilled; down in North Lawrence it is river silt behind a levee and the footing goes wider instead.

Most of the people who call us from Lawrence are university and college buildings, fraternity and sorority houses, schools, churches, downtown businesses, research and light industrial buildings, city facilities and older residential streets.