 On July 17, 1975, the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places.The construction of Memorial Hall was financed by war claims paid to the State of Kansas by the federal government; one for $97,466.02 for equipping and putting soldiers in the field during the American Civil War, and the other for $425,065.43 for repelling invasions of Confederate soldiers and dealing with American Indian Wars.In 1909, a legislative money appropriation act was passed.