Indiana Landmarks awards nearly $23,000 to save meaningful places

photo provided from the Community Art Center Facebook page

Vevay, IN—In the first three months of 2020, Indiana Landmarks awarded $22,900 to help nonprofits and cities around Indiana save meaningful places. Drawing from a variety of funds, these grants support efforts ranging from architectural studies guiding repairs for early nineteenth-century homes in Jeffersonville and Salem to a project digitizing biking and walking tours in Indianapolis’s historic neighborhoods.

Community Art Center of Switzerland County in Vevay was awarded $2,500 for a feasibility study examining how to improve accessibility to the upper floors of the 1855 building housing the art center.

Switzerland County Historical Society was awarded $2,500 for a feasibility study examining how to improve accessibility to the upper floor of the society’s museum, located in the 1860 Vevay Presbyterian Church.