In another end-of-an-era moment for Wichita, what’s left of the Green Elephant Village is going to be going away, but a popular business there will live on.
A 1992 Wichita Eagle article said the center at 505 N. Lorraine near Central and Hillside, “with shops set up in renovated 1900s-era homes and well-tended flower gardens all around,” was “more mellow than mall.”
Founder Nancy Farrow started the center in 1984 when she moved her pottery business there, which she started in her home in 1972. She named the center for an empty green house on the property and then purchased some adjacent homes to create a cluster of businesses.
Her Green Elephant by Nancy shop grew into much more than a pottery shop before closing late last year. Within months of closing, Farrow died…