Downtown Hutchinson was one of 10-applications reviewed and approved for fund through the Kansas Historical Society. They announced that 10 applications for the 2013 Historic Preservation Fund (HPF) grant program were received and evaluated by a grant review committee. The committee reviewed grant requests totaling $128,684 and recommended funding $116,234 of the requested amount. The committee recommended that projects be funded, pending allocation and availability of funds:

Hutchinson’s Downtown Historic District will receive 7-thousand, 27-dollars although they were listed at the bottom of the ten.

The city of Wichita will receive three grants for different areas. That includes money for the South Central Neighborhood Survey Area 2 at 24-thousand 999-dollars. Then another 14-thousand for at Steel Window Repair Seminar and workshop. The third is for a scholarship for the 2014 NAACP Conference with the grant for 5-thousand, 155-dollars.

Other grants going to Douglas County, the city of Lawrence, the city of Topeka, and then two to Kansas State University.

The grant review committee made these recommendations to the Historic Sites Review Board at their quarterly meeting, May 4. The board approved the committee’s recommendations.