The Park Cherry Building, with its beautiful red brick, limestone trim, one-of-a-kind architecture from the 1800s, still stands in the heart of Olathe, at the corner of Park and Cherry streets, and now sits across the street from the new Johnson County Square and within walking distance of the new County Courthouse, the Admin Building, City Hall, the new Downtown Library, the Post Office, the new Arrello Apartments, and numerous new (and upcoming) restaurants including Park Street Pastry, Pizza 51, Third Street Social, Austins, Fifth and Emery Frozen Yogurt and Chocolates, Char Bar, and Duck Donuts. Free parking is provided by the City including on-street parking, a surface parking lot north of the building, a parking garage one half-block south of the building, and a new parking garage coming soon just north of City Hall.
For 150 years, the Park Cherry Building has been home to numerous stores, banks, professional offices and other businesses which played major roles in the city of Olathe's history including a 500-seat theater operated under various names on the east end of the building from 1927 to 1984 and J. C. Nichols, the developer of the Country Club Plaza during the time his father-in-law owned the building. Today, the Park Cherry Building, with its completely renovated interior (high ceilings, large windows, lots of brick, and lots of woodwork) continues to be called home for a variety of stores, professional offices and other businesses in Downtown Olathe including Kansas 4D Ultrasound, Lucky Rooster Yarns, the Olathe Art Gallery, Harmony Heights Counseling and Wellness, Sunflower Stitchery, Oakbridge Real Estate, Omega Tecks, Consentus Tax Services, GoldenLink, Talaske, Trinity Fellowship Church Offices, Caring Senior Services, Fortitude Mental Health as well as nine law firms.
"The Park-Cherry Corner is arguably the most historic location in the city, other than perhaps Courthouse Square. The intersection of Park and Cherry streets in down Olathe, as well as the Park Cherry Building on the northeast corner at 100 East Park Street, is still an historically significant location, and the building exterior is perhaps still one of the most elegant in Olathe. In some ways, the history of Olathe can be told in the history of this building and its occupants."-- Trails, Rails, & Tales, Olathe's First 150 Years by Geroge R. Bauer
