From the Ground Up: Laura Ingalls Wilder Historic Home & Museum

Owner/developer: Laura Ingalls Wilder Historic Home & Museum and The Laura Ingalls Wilder Home Association of Mansfield, Missouri
General contractor: Federal Construction Inc.
Architect: Buxton Kubik Dodd Creative
Engineers: Lee Engineering and Associates LLC, civil; Miller Engineering PC, structural; and Pellham-Phillips Architects and Engineers Inc., mechanical, electrical and plumbing
Size: 7,400 square feet
Estimated cost: $1.47 million
Lender: None
Estimated completion: Dec. 31
Project description: Dustin Hemsworth, project manager for general contractor Federal Construction Inc., said the $1.2 million construction budget for the new Laura Ingalls Wilder Historic Home & Museum was generated through public donations. Museum officials have an additional $268,000 set aside for furniture and features inside the property, in large part from a U.S. Department of Agriculture grant. The museum closes for the winter, so a grand opening ceremony is scheduled April 22. With 30,000 visitors a year, Hemsworth said museum officials felt they had outgrown their older, smaller museum and wanted to take the farm back to original conditions. The project is on a plat immediately adjacent to museum home Rocky Ridge Farm.

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