LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Expansion plans are on hold for a historic Lawrence hotel that stands on the site of one destroyed in 1856 and again in 1863 by pro-slavery forces.

Eldridge Hotel general manager Nancy Longhurst says in an email that the owners have made the decision not to proceed with the project for now. The Lawrence Journal-World

reports that plans had called for an approximately 50-room expansion of the hotel. The structures that preceded it were targeted for destruction when Lawrence was an Abolitionist stronghold before the Civil War.

Longhurst didn’t explain why the ownership group decided to cancel the expansion plans, which also called for more restaurant and banquet space.

She says the owners “look forward to investing in this project in the future.” But she didn’t provide a timeline.