Grant awarded to WM Main Street

Grant awarded to WM Main Street

Arkansas Historic Preservation Program makes presentation

mark@arkansasheritage.org

LITTLE ROCK— Governor Asa Hutchinson announced today that the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program, an agency of the Department of Arkansas Heritage, has awarded $2,842,862 in grants for projects in 54 Arkansas counties— including Crittenden County—through its County Courthouse Restoration Subgrant, Historic Preservation Restoration Grant, Certified Local Government Subgrant and Main Street Downtown Revitalization Grant programs.

Main Street West Memphis received a $15,000 Downtown Revitalization Grant.

Eighteen Main Street Arkansas programs shared $270,000 in Downtown Revitalization Grants, which are funded through the state Real Estate Transfer Tax and are available to accredited Main Street programs for building rehabilitations, parks, streetscape improvements and other design-related projects that will have major long-term impacts in the local Main Street area.

Main Street programs in Batesville, Dumas, El Dorado, Eureka Springs, Helena-West Helena, Osceola, Ozark, Paragould, Rogers, Russellville, Searcy,Siloam Springs, Texarkana, the Conway Downtown Partnership, Downtown Little Rock Partnership, Downtown Jonesboro Association and Little Rock’s South Main also received $15,000 grants through the program.

An additional $16,000 in Downtown Revitalization Grants was awarded to cities involved in Main Street’s Arkansas Downtown Network.

Grants of $1,000 each were awarded to the programs in Arkadelphia, Clarksville, Forrest City, Fort Smith, Hardy, Heber Springs, Malvern, Monticello, Morrilton, Newport, Paris, Pine Bluff, Pocahontas, Rector, Warren and Wynne.

Twenty counties shared $1,480,452 in County Courthouse Restoration Subgrants, which are financed through Real Estate Transfer Tax funds distributed by the Arkansas Natural and Cultural Resources Council for rehabilitation of historic county courthouses across Arkansas. Funding requests totaled $4,980,466.

Counties receiving courthouse grants were Arkansas, $17,344; Baxter, $50,715; Boone, $14,938; Calhoun, $52,500; Carroll, $19,000; Chicot, $55,237; Clark, $140,289; Cleburne, $66,360; Franklin, $100,000; Garland, $106,500; Jackson, $61,650; Johnson, $71,570; Lafayette, $100,000; Little River, $71,356; Logan, $40,000; Mississippi, $70,000; Polk, $28,080; Union, $122,850; Woodruff, $182,063 and Yell, $110,000.

Thirty-two projects shared $978,069 in Historic Preservation Restoration Grants (HPRG), HPRG recipients, the amount of their grants, and the properties to be restored, were American Legion Post #61, $11,260 to restore the roof, windows and doors at Estes-Williams American Legion Hut #61 at Yellville; Bradley County Chamber of Commerce, $59,602 to restore the roof at the Warren & Ouachita Valley Railway Station in Warren; Cato Historic Church and Cemetery, Inc., $7,942 to restore monuments at Frenchman’s Mountain Cemetery in Cato; Central Arkansas Sphynx Foundation, $13,992 for restoration work at the Bush-Dubisson House in Little Rock; City of Conway, $9,999 for monument restoration at Oak Grove Cemetery; City of Hope, $20,000 for restoration work at the Hope Girl Scout Little House; City of Little Rock, $50,000 for restoration work on the Herschell-Spillman Carousel; City of Mountain View, $87,128 for restoration work at the Mountain View Waterworks; City of Mulberry, $13,913 for second- floor restoration at the Bryant-Lasater House; City of North Little Rock, $40,500 for a master plan and restoration work on the U.S.S. Hoga and $18,348 for repointing at the Park Hill Water Company Historic District; City of Texarkana, $33,170 for restoration work at the Texarkana Municipal Building; Dana’s House, Inc., $50,391 for window restoration at the United Methodist Church in DeWitt; Eureka Springs Historical Museum, $18,800 for wood restoration at the Samuel Calif Building; First Lutheran Church, $127,000 for roof restoration at the Welch-Cherry House; First United Methodist Church, $28,930 for masonry restoration at the First United Methodist Church in Hamburg; Hill Family Living Trust, $10,000 for façade restoration on the building at 304 South Main Street in Rector; John and Julieanna Brandenberger, $10,000 for exterior restoration at the W.H. Vaughan Cottage in Little Rock; Legacy Initiatives, $56,712 to complete exterior restoration of the Hayes Hardware Building in De Queen; Little River County Training School Alumni Association, $28,000 for roof restoration at the Little River County Training School Home Ec Building in Ashdown; St.

James Episcopal Church, $17,905 for roof restoration at the Cromer School in Eureka Springs; Logan County, $31,000 for exterior restoration of the Old Logan County Jail; Michael Berry, $10,000 to restore the roof configuration at 210 Fountain Avenue in Little Rock; Mount Holly Cemetery Association, $25,000 for wall restoration at Mount Holly Cemetery in Little Rock; Mount Zion Baptist Church, $49,166 for roof restoration at Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church in Brinkley; $20,000 to make Norman High School accessible to handicapped; Old Bethel Cemetery Association, Inc., $7,980 for survey and monument restoration at Bethel Cemetery at Black Rock; P.H.O.E.B.E., $52,000 for roof restoration at the John For more information on the AHPP’s grant programs, write the agency at 323 Center St., Suite 1500, Little Rock, AR 72201, call the agency at (501) 324-9880 [TDD 501-3249811], send e-mail to info@arkansaspreservation. org or visit www.arkansaspreservation. org.

From Mark Christ