[2] The Goodnow House is a stone structure with gable roofs over a two-story main block and a one-story wing.

Hattie Parkerson, a niece whom they had adopted, inherited the house after Ellen died in 1900.

After Hattie's death in 1940, the house was passed to a friend, Mary Payne, who later donated it and many of the Goodnow's belongings to the Kansas Historical Society, a state agency which operates it today as the Goodnow House State Historic Site.

[2][3] On February 24, 1971, the Goodnow House was added to the National Register of Historic Places.

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