(KNZA)--The Brown County Historical Society plans to purchase two connecting buildings in downtown Hiawatha to house Jack’s Trains and artifacts from the Francis Sewell Plamann estate.
Historical Society Director Eric Thompson met with the Brown County Commission Monday to discusses the organizations plans to purchase the buildings 605 and 607 Utah Street next to their downtown museum.
The buildings currently house the Hiawatha World and Larry’s Barbershop. Thompson says the two businesses would stay in their current locations and rent from the Historical Society.
He says the Historical Society Board decided it would be better to purchase the buildings than construct a new building at their Ag Museum site to house the train display and Plamann artifacts.
They are currently located in a county-owned building at 518 Oregon in downtown Hiawatha that sold at a public auction earlier this month. The new owner, Greg Buser, of rural Robinson, is to take possession of the building January 2nd, 2017.
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