During a meeting on Tuesday morning, the Wilson Brewer Historic Park Commission heard updates on that progress.

It had been a few months since the last meeting of the commission, Webster City Recreation and Public Grounds Director Larry Flaws said.

“They reported that the first Hamilton County Courthouse, which was in use from 1866 to 1876, is going out for a bid for some construction work “to put it back into its original shape,” Flaws said.

The courthouse project received a $5,000 grant from the Enhance Hamilton County Foundation, which helped tremendously, Flaws said.

The commission discussed the completion of the restoration of the two relic log cabins at the park — the Jameson Log Cabin and the Brewer-Groves Log Cabin. Restoration efforts of those landmarks began in 2019.

The cabins were dismantled and taken to the Heritage Woodwork Inc. of Clemons warehouse where the logs were refurbished and repaired. The cabins were then reconstructed on a new foundation on higher ground at the park.

“We took them apart — piece by piece — and moved them out of low area that flooded and moved them to the east,” engineer Wayne Schlotfeldt told the Freeman-Journal in 2020.

The cabins were also winterized last year, Flaws said.

Improvements on the Harmony Schoolhouse building are also complete, he said.

“There’s still a little bit of work left on the Mulberry Center Church,” Flaws said. “They’ve got to do some work to some ceiling tiles and work on the porch foundation.”

Brick pavers will also be added to the front of the building for a patio this summer, he

added.

Flaws did report that improvement work on the train depot building is still on hold, but the architects are expected to have a rendering of what the project will eventually look like soon.

“They got the same firm that did the Elks building, RDG,” he said.

He said the project might be a couple years away, yet.

The next meeting of the Wilson Brewer Historic Park Commission is scheduled for April 19.