Photos: Edgerton Community Outreach
A $2.1 million project will transform a history building in downtown Edgerton into housing for veterans, meeting space and offices.
Veteran housing in Edgerton
This building in downtown Edgerton built in 1854 is being converted into six apartments geared toward veterans. Meeting and office space will occupy the lower level.
Veteran housing in Edgerton
Sarah Williams, executive director of Edgerton Community Outreach, shows off some of the vast storage for its resale shop. Edgerton Community Outreach, its roots dating to 1989, also offers housing and food programs for area residents.
Veteran housing in Edgerton
This building at 201 W. Fulton St. in downtown Edgerton was built in 1854 as the Taylor House, but has largely fallen into disrepair. A project to renovate the three-story structure is scheduled for completion in late 2023 and is being funded by a number of community, county and state entities.
Veteran housing in Edgerton
(From left front) Fred Falk, with the Edgerton VFW, Ramona Flanigan, Edgerton city administrator, Sarah Williams, executive director with Edgerton Community Outreach, Jason Scott, Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation, and center left, Sam Rikkers, Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation, and Christopher Lund, mayor of Edgerton, tour the city’s oldest building that is being converted into six apartments geared toward veterans.
Veteran housing in Edgerton
Sam Rikkers of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp., left, and Fred Falk of the Edgerton VFW visit in a building that at one time was a bowling alley in downtown Edgerton. The building, now in a state of disrepair, will be removed to create a parking lot for the tenants of the adjacent and soon-to-be-renovated historic building owned by Edgerton Community Outreach.
Veteran housing in Edgerton
Edgerton Mayor Chris Lund looks over the space that will soon be converted to veteran housing. The city purchased the building for $100,000 and sold the facility to Edgerton Community Outreach for $1. A $2.1 million renovation will bring the building back to life.
Veteran housing in Edgerton
Edgerton Community Outreach is housed in this historic tobacco warehouse in the city's downtown. At one time, the city had 44 such warehouses, but only a handful remain.
Veteran housing in Edgerton
Trinity Brehmer, a client advocate for Edgerton Community Outreach, takes a food pantry order over the phone last week, which has been the procedure since the pandemic. The pantry, along with a massive thrift store operated by Edgerton Community Outreach, is housed in a restored tobacco warehouse in the city's downtown.
Veteran housing in Edgerton
Sarah Williams, executive director of Edgerton Community Outreach, gives Sam Rikkers of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. a tour of the space in downtown Edgerton that will be converted to housing for veterans. The $2.1 million project will create six apartments, meeting and office space in the city's oldest commercial building.
Veteran housing in Edgerton
This space on the lower level of a building owned by Edgerton Community Outreach will be used for office space once a $2.1 million renovation is completed. The other half of the lower level will be used by the local VFW post and for other community events.
Veteran housing in Edgerton
This rendering shows the planned look for the exterior of a building in downtown Edgerton that will be home to six apartments for veterans on the second and third floors and meeting and office space on the first floor.Â
Veteran Housing in Edgerton
Rendering of Veterans housing in downtown Edgerton, Wisconsin.
Edgerton's oldest building is being transformed into apartments for veterans and will provide meeting space for the VFW.
