A ribbon-cutting on Friday will mark the completion of a multi-year renovation project at one Auburn museum.
The Seward House is set to unveil the completed barn and carriage house at the downtown historic site. Speaking on FLX Morning, Kate Grindstaff with the museum said that the project has been a decade in the making.
“This is a project we’ve been working on for a decade at this point, but we’ve been under construction here at the Seward House over the past year, and our project is now finally finished and those two buildings in the back of our main house are now going to be open to the public.”
The public ribbon cutting will take place at 11:00a on Friday, William H Seward’s birthday.
The $3.1 million renovation project has seen the two 1860s buildings transformed. The barn will now serve as a multi-use event space. The carriage house will house offices on the upper level. Seward’s Wood Brothers’ carriage will be installed in the lower level once conservation work is completed; the installation is anticipated to take place in the fall.
Funding for the project was made possible through the City of Auburn’s Downtown Revitalization Initiative, grants from the NYS Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation, National Park Service, and the American Rescue Plan Act, and private funding.
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