The BUSTER KEATON MUSEUM

Area maps and approaching views

Click Map 1	Located in the southeast corner of Kansas, little Piqua is about 100 miles southwest of Topeka, the state capital.
Click Map 2	A medium-range map shows Piqua, located in Woodson county near the Allen county line.
Click Map 3	Just off State Hwy. 54, Piqua is located on the road to nearby Iola, home of the annual Keaton Film Festival.

Click Photo 1	The view approaching Piqua traveling west on Hwy. 54 from Iola. Turn left at the plant in the near distance.
Click Photo 2	Traveling east on Hwy. 54 toward Piqua, turn right just past the plant. Continue on 100 yards (past the honorary "Keaton Bypass" seen here on the right) down to the Water District building on the left.
Click Photo 3	Just before reaching the Water District building, which houses the Keaton Museum, is an adjoining field which contains the plaque dedicated to Keaton's birthplace.

The Water District Building and surrounding views of Piqua, KS.

Click Photo 4	The Water District building contains the Buster Keaton Memorial Museum in the front room.
Click Photo 6	Standing in front of the adjoining field, looking back to the left (from which direction you came), one can glimpse St. Michael's Church on the far side of Hwy. 54.
Click Photo 8	Standing in front of the Water building turning right, one sees the essence of rural Kansas..

Click Photo 5	The Buster Keaton Memorial Museum sign, created by a local artisan with tile, decorates the building entrance.
Click Photo 7	Turning further still to the left, one sees the local grainery.
Click Photo 9	Facing straight ahead, one sees the town of Piqua, including the post office (brick front in center), a large old house (not unlike the one where Keaton was born nearby), and the farmer's CO-OP store (tanks in front, far right) located on the lot where Keaton was born..

Points of interest in Piqua, KS.

Click Photo 10	The Post Office in Piqua.
Click Photo 12	Across from the post office, to the right, is the local farmers CO-OP store, located on the site of Buster Keaton's birth on October 4, 1895.
Click Photo 14	Continuing west out of Piqua.
Click Photo 16	On the side of Hwy. 54 opposite downtown Piqua, St. Michael's church (perhaps the "Catholic hall" referenced by Joe Keaton, which served as a substitute location for their medicine show when the cyclone ripped through Piqua on the day of Buster's birth).

Click Photo 11	Standing in front of the post office in Piqua, looking back toward the Water building which houses the Keaton Museum.
Click Photo 13	The old railroad depot building, moved from its original location, setting next to the lot where Keaton was born.
Click Photo 15	At the same point, looking east back toward Piqua, over fields of rich Kansas wheat, one can glimpse the spire of St. Michael's.
Click Photo 17	Back out on Hwy. 54, looking west, from Xylan Rd., on which the Keaton Museum is located.

The BUSTER KEATON MEMORIAL MUSEUM located in Piqua, Kansas.
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This page was last updated on February 21, 2006.