The Mount Horeb Landmarks Foundation, Inc. was awarded a $7,350 grant by the National Trust for Historic Preservation from its Wisconsin Projects Fund. Grant money, along with funds from the Mount Horeb Community Foundation, supported the costs of an Historic Structures Report.
The HSR provides a firm direction and guidelines for restoration of the schoolhouse insuring that work is done in an historically correct manner. The document was prepared by Art Chadek Architectural Services, LLC, an AIA architect specializing in historic structures. The report outlines the history of the school and the way it should be restored for the intended uses following code requirements. The structural integrity of the building was evaluated by a local engineer, Larry Soltis, who donated his work, and by William Dries Associates from Middleton, who provided evaluation at a reduced fee.
Historic preservation and adaptive-use is a particular skill of Art Chadek’s firm, and the report includes historic research, the building condition assessment and preservation recommendations based on the Secretary of Interior Standards and National Park Service requirements for historic buildings. Art Chadek has worked on many historic preservation projects, including the Milton House in Milton, The Little White Schoolhouse in Ripon, and the Wisconsin State Capitol east wing restoration.
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NEWS
Posted 1/7/10
The lower level of the District #1 School is currently being finished. The concrete floor has been poured, mechanicals are in place and the building now has heat and electricity. Hasn't it always you ask? Well, not exactly. We functioned with "make-shift" to get us though special activity usage. Framing has also been completed and progress is underway for the restroom and kitchen area. Future usage is close at hand.
Posted 12/24/09
Papers were signed
on
Christmas Eve at the office of Mark
Rooney, Attorney for MHLF, after an agreement with the Village of Mount
Horeb to transfer ownership title of the 1889 District #1School house to
Mount Horeb Landmarks Foundation.
Posted 5/13/09
1919 Claude and Starck Building Nomination
The Academy Street Historic Nomination is now complete.
A Public Forum which will be led by Tim Heggland is forthcoming. Date TBA.
A special thank you goes to each of you who contributed funds to complete this project.
Tower Raising
It was a special day at the end of April 2007 when the dream of seeing the bell tower on the District Number 1 School became a reality. The team of Lead Region Historic Trust was hired to replicate the original tower which had been removed not long after the school went into private ownership. McCutchin Crane Service lifted the newly constructed tower complete with bell into place. It was a tender moment for sisters Rose Klir and Mary Curtis, former one room school teachers, who donated the bell and heard it ring for the first time in it's new home after the tower was safely positioned.
Special thanks goes to Midwest Prototyping for giving the tower a safe haven until the installation and to Sherwin-Williams of Madison for graciously donating all of the paint for the project.
Lead Region Historic Trust also replicated the canopy over the front door of the building and continues working on interior renovation work.