historic preservation

Two nonprofits, Friends of Potato Creek State Park and Indiana Barns Foundation, want the state to delay the Potato Creek State Park barn demolition so they can try to raise money to save it.

Roxann Reasor's plan to move the 1892 Z. Crepeau Building a couple of blocks south would reunite it with a former neighbor.

The LaPorte Community School Corporation says they've made no decisions on what to do with historic Kiwanis Field and they're forming a community committee to explore options.

The Mayor James Mueller administration has said it won't spend city money to renovate the historic, long-neglected State Theater, but will look for private developers interested in taking on the project.

A locally owned hotel would fill the building's top two floors, restoring large windows that look across Michigan Street at The State Theater.