(MSC News)--Three historic attractions will receive a portion of more than $881,000 dollars in Heritage Trust Fund grant monies, as designated for 2015 by a committee of the Kansas Historic Sites Board of Review. 

14 projects from across the state, narrowed from a list of 47 eligible applicants, will share the funds. 

Selected locally is the Amelia Earhart Birthplace Museum in Atchison, which receives just over $46,000.

Museum Caretaker Louise Foudray says the museum staff was excited and relieved to hear the news, as they were not certain they would receive the grant. 

She says the money will be used to make some updates and repairs to the actual structure and foundation of the house. 

Two historic sites in Marshall County are also receiving funds, including the Waterville Opera House. 

Joyce Stryker, Chair of the Waterville Opera House Renovation Committee, tells MSC News the $90,000 will help to continue restoration efforts currently underway. In 2013, the organization received a Heritage Trust Fund Grant designated for brick and mortar work. Those funds were used to power wash the outside of the Opera House, paint windows and doors, repair guttering, and other necessary outside renovations. Stryker says some problems, not included in the bid, were encountered, and those will be addressed with the latest funds. The necessary repairs include a bowing above the front entrance, deterioration of stone and mortar adjacent to the south east downspout, and outward displacement of the east wall along the upper portion of the north half. 

Also receiving grant funds of $90,000 is the Frankfort Grade School. Emily Ford, Vice-President of the Frankfort Development Trust, tells MSC News the funds will be used to put a new roof on the building. She calls that a first step in the non-profit group's ongoing goal for preservation of the historic structure. 

Ford says the group has taken steps to determine the future use of the building, including a community survey. They are currently working with students from Kansas State University who are using the building as a class project for the Architecture and Interior Design classes. The goal, through those endeavors, is to develop a definite plan for the future use of the building that will help Frankfort's economic growth and development. 

The selections were made during the Kansas Historic Sites Board of Review's regular quarterly meeting held February 14th.