Stone Bank’s back is up!

August 22, 2022

Stone Bank’s back is up!

YES! It has taken a while… but we have finished the work to rebuild the back of the Stone Bank! It’s a BIG deal. As you may recall, we took down the back 20 feet of the building to put it on a firm foundation.

The Stone Bank on Main Street in Bottineau, ND was built in 1900 by local craftsmen. The stones were carried to North Dakota by glaciers and shaped on site. The front of the building sits on a stone foundation, too. Work to repair and repurpose the building began in 2011.

In 2021, we matched a $28,491 grant from the State Historical Society of North Dakota, and our contractors worked in difficult weather in late 2021 and early 2022 to rebuild the back of the building. The Bottineau County Economic Development Commission helped match the grant with a low-interest loan and many donors gave to make this work possible.

The arched entry at the back of the building will make the building handicap-accessible entrance. We added about 9 feet to the structure to make that possible.

Next steps? Our stone mason is cutting original stones to reattach the stone facade. Every gift to the project goes to moving the project forward.

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