{"id":92,"date":"2008-07-07T12:41:43","date_gmt":"2008-07-07T16:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/?p=92"},"modified":"2008-07-13T21:23:44","modified_gmt":"2008-07-14T01:23:44","slug":"weston-clocktower-repair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/weston-clocktower-repair","title":{"rendered":"Weston Clocktower Repair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/images\/2008\/07\/07\/1.jpg\" alt=\"Weston State Hospital\" width=\"484\" height=\"363\" \/>Asylum enthusiast Taylor\/WSH <a title=\"WSH Tower to be Repaired\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/forum\/viewtopic.php?f=39&amp;t=1295\">posted about this on the forum<\/a>: Joe Jordan, current owner of the <a title=\"Weston State Hospital\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/buildings\/weston\/\">Weston State Hospital<\/a> Kirkbride has received funds from the state to repair the building&#8217;s clocktower. West Virginia&#8217;s Historic Preservation Office has granted $104,000 for repairs. Mr Jordan will match the grant with another $104,000 plus work from staff and volunteers. Work is expected to begin around the first of September.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s always good to hear about positive developments in <a title=\"Kirkbride Building Preservation\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/category\/preservation\">preservation<\/a>, but it&#8217;s especially good to hear that West Virginia continues to provide funds for saving this landmark. While they didn&#8217;t grant money for <em>everything<\/em> that was requested (the Jordans also asked for help with the cost of roof repairs), it&#8217;s a great step forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asylum enthusiast Taylor\/WSH posted about this on the forum: Joe Jordan, current owner of the Weston State Hospital Kirkbride has received funds from the state to repair the building&#8217;s clocktower. West Virginia&#8217;s Historic Preservation Office has granted $104,000 for repairs. Mr Jordan will match the grant with another $104,000 plus work from staff and volunteers. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5,3],"tags":[123,277,133,25,39],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-news","category-preservation","tag-clocktower","tag-preservation","tag-trans-allegheny-lunatic-asylum","tag-weston","tag-weston-state-hospital"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":376,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions\/376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}