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Pella Historical Society is celebrating the organization’s first-ever founder’s week. Yesterday, they hosted “Wyatt Earp Day” with a special open house.
Wayne Stienstra works on the buildings and ground committee at Pella Historical, and tells KNIA/KRLS News it’s vital to the community to save historical buildings such as the boyhood home of Wyatt Earp due to its significance.
“It’s so unique — that’s why it’s worthy to preserve it,” he says. “And there’s a few other structures out here on the Village campus that are of the same vintage of the early Pella Dutch houses.”
“Once we lose that heritage, then everything is just stucco-covered styrofoam–you’d lose the original buildings that the people lived in, worked in, and worshipped in, and that’s important to keep that connection to history.”
He says much-needed upgrades are on the horizon for the house due to the type of brick used in the original construction.
Renovations at the Wyatt Earp Home are expected to cost over $300,000.