Palouse looks to the future to decide St. Elmo's direction

PALOUSE— The City of Palouse has $262,500 of state grants and a local match set aside to assess and study the St. Elmo building.

Grass roots group, Friends of St. Elmo, interested in preserving historic spaces in Palouse, worked with the Washington Trust for Historic Preservation to have the St. Elmo recognized in 2019 as one of Washington’s most endangered historic places, raising the building’s profile and strengthening its competitiveness for grant funding.

The City has received a $50,000 Community Economic Revitalization Board (CERB) planning grant to determine costs to stabilize the build...