Hagen History Center receives $100K grant to restore Watson-Curtze Mansion windows
Windows at the historic Watson-Curtze Mansion will be repaired and restored thanks to a grant from the state.
The Hagen History Center is being awarded a $100,000 Keystone Historic Preservation grant.
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This is a part of a state program that provides vital funding for organizations, local governments and museums across the commonwealth to preserve cultural heritage.
There are 96 original windows from 1891 that were not updated during the 2015 mansion restoration.
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'We have to do everything following guidelines and standards to make sure it's historically accurate, and a couple of the cases we'll be doing full replacement, and those will be historically correct windows based on all the original specs for the mansion, so that's something that's really important to us,' said Caleb Pifer, executive director of the Hagen History Center.
Pifer said it should take them roughly a month to complete, and they will remain open during construction.
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