{"id":29081,"date":"2013-10-11T11:06:25","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T16:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=29081"},"modified":"2013-10-11T11:10:13","modified_gmt":"2013-10-11T16:10:13","slug":"welks-boyhood-home-may-not-go-to-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=29081","title":{"rendered":"Historical Society Delays Decision, Welk&#8217;s Boyhood Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/welkhome2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-21956\" alt=\"welkhome2\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/welkhome2.jpg\" width=\"235\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP Oct 11, 2013) &#8211; North Dakota&#8217;s State Historical Society has delayed a decision on whether to buy the boyhood home of the famous bandleader Lawrence Welk.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The society&#8217;s board wants more time to seek legal advice on how it can buy the six-acre property in Strasburg, and to gauge the willingness of state lawmakers to fund operating costs in coming years.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Legislature earlier this year included $100,000 in the Historical Society budget to buy the property, but lawmakers stipulated that repairs must be made before the purchase.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 State Sen. Robert Erbele says area residents are willing to invest hundreds of hours in making repairs and in keeping the site operating until the 2015 Legislature meets.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The site is owned by Welk&#8217;s nieces, Evelyn and Edna Schwab. Evelyn says the delay is a letdown.<\/p>\n<p>Previously&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 An owner of Lawrence Welk&#8217;s boyhood home in the south-central North Dakota town of Strasburg says an engineering study may kill the sale of the property to the state.<\/p>\n<p>Documents obtained by The Associated Press show that a state assessment says the famous bandleader and TV host&#8217;s birthplace needs more than $580,000 in repairs.<\/p>\n<p>Welk&#8217;s nieces, Evelyn and Edna Schwab, own the property. Evelyn Schwab has not seen the state study but fears it could be a \u201cdeal-killer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Legislature this year included $100,000 in the state Historical Society&#8217;s budget for the purchase of the property. The group tabled the purchase until it had more information on repair and maintenance costs.<\/p>\n<p>The group is slated to meet next week to make a decision on the purchase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP Oct 11, 2013) &#8211; North Dakota&#8217;s State Historical Society has delayed a decision on whether to buy the boyhood home of the famous bandleader Lawrence Welk. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The society&#8217;s board wants more time to seek legal advice on how it can buy the six-acre property in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29081"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29577,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29081\/revisions\/29577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}