Heritage Conservation Council Offers Grants to Help With Structural Barn Assessments

The Douglas County Heritage Conservation Council is offering grants to help underwrite the cost of structural barn assessments. Deadline for the grants is Tuesday, June 15.

The evaluation of a barn structure will be performed by a professional familiar with barn construction and approved by the Kansas Barn Alliance Board of Directors. The evaluation will provide an analysis of the present condition of the structure. The evaluation will itemize repairs needed in order of importance to allow for work to be done in phases.\

Applicants must be an owner of a barn in Douglas County. Barn owners who receive grant awards will also receive a one-year free membership to the Kansas Barn Alliance (KBA).

Applicants must describe the planned use for the repaired barn, the current use and its history back to the original owner and builder, if possible. Photo documentation of interior and exterior of the barn should be included.

The owner should be willing to have farmstead information entered on the Kansas Historical Society’s Kansas Historic Resources Inventory (KHRI), a record of pre-1950 barns and farmsteads and other properties. It is not a listing on either the Kansas Register or National Register of Historic Places. However, the barn or farmstead should have enough integrity to be a potential listing on the National Register of Historic Places whether the owner wishes to pursue it or not.

For more information about the Barn Assessment Grant program, and an application, go to this link.