Save America's Treasures Grant Awarded for Restoration of the Willa Cather Childhood Home

Save America's Treasures Grant Awarded for Restoration of the Willa Cather Childhood Home

September 27, 2019

With intent to preserve a National Historic Landmark and a major tourist destination, the National Willa Cather Center announced today a $415,000 federal Save America’s Treasures Grant. The award of this full-ask grant will enable restoration of the Willa Cather Childhood Home in Red Cloud, Nebraska.

The Willa Cather Childhood Home, a modest one-and-a-half story frame home, was built in 1879 in the vernacular tradition of early prairie houses. Willa Cather, one of our nation’s greatest writers, lived in the home from the age of ten to sixteen. While Cather moved away from Nebraska in 1896, her parents Charles and Mary Virginia Cather rented the home through 1904.

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