Work continues to get Caretaker's House on National Register of Historic Places

Caretaker's House at Wellington Place

It will cost $2,500 to prepare an application to put the Caretaker's House at the county nursing home property on the National Register of Historic Places.  The Oneota Historic Future Alliance wants to apply for a grant to cover those costs, so Monday it approached the Winneshiek County Board for an endorsement of the grant application.

County supervisors agreed to the endorsement, but they also cautioned that the OHFA is running out of time to save the Caretaker's House.  An agreement between the county and the OHFA requires them to have a renter for the two-story Prairie Box Style building by November 30th.  County supervisors told OHFA representative Deborah Bishop on Monday that her group has just over six months to find a renter.

It will have to do so before it learns the fate of the application to put the Caretaker's House on the National Register of Historic Places  Bishop says the application won't be filed until next June, with a decision announced next August or September.