The Kansas Historical Society announced that 10 applications for the 2013 Historic Preservation Fund (HPF) grant program were received and evaluated by a grant review committee. The committee reviewed grant requests totaling $128,684 and recommended funding $116,234 of the requested amount. The committee recommended that projects be funded in the following order, pending allocation and availability of funds:

· City of Wichita – South Central Neighborhood Survey Area 2 — $24,999
· Douglas County – Historic Resources Survey of Wakarusa Township — $20,000
· City of Wichita – Steel Window Repair Seminar & Workshop — $14,000
· City of Lawrence – Quantrill’s Raid Surviving Structures Survey — $15,500
· City of Topeka – Scholarship for National Trust Conference — $5,000
· City of Wichita – Scholarship for NACP Conference 2014 — $5,115
· Kansas State University – Technical Analysis of Pottery from the Kansas Monument Site 14RP1 — $4,529
· Kansas State University – Phase III National Register of Historic Places Evaluation of 12RY402 Riley County, KS — $10,064
· City of Hutchinson – Hutchinson Downtown Historic District — $7,027