CHEYENNE The Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) has awarded four Paul Bruhn Historic Revitalization Grants to Wyoming businesses.
With funding from the National Park Service, SHPO awarded $350,000 in grant support to help four grantees with their rehabilitation of historic buildings on rural historic main streets and/or commercial districts in Wyoming.
The four grant recipients are Historic First Security Bank Building, City of Rock Springs, Rock Springs; GT Machine Building, GT Machine LLC, Green River; The Weston House, Weston House LLC, Jackson; and Leaverton Building, Leaverton Marquis LLC, Sheridan.
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The City of Rock Springs received $81,374 in support of electrical service to the historic First National Bank. The First National Bank, aka First Security Bank, has been vacant since 1980 when the bank moved to a new location. Since that time, the building has bounced between owners, many of whom removed some of the histo