The White House Inn Library and Museum hosted several state dignitaries Friday afternoon for a presentation of a $100,000 grant check from the State of Tennessee.
State of Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett visited the historical library to present the check, along with State Senator Ferrell Haile, Representative Joshua Evans, Representative Courtney Rogers, and Representative William Lamberth.
White House Mayor Mike Arnold and library director Elizabeth Kozlowski were on hand to accept the grant from the State of Tennessee.
“We have been working for so long to get this new library off the ground,” Mayor Arnold said. “We have raised a large amount of money in grants and still hold out hope to get even more in the next few months.”
Arnold and Kozlowski recently also secured a $200,000 grant from the Memorial Foundation, an agency that also worked with the City of Portland and other local cities building libraries in recent years.
The City of White House has started the process near city hall for preparing for ground breaking and eventual construction of the new library. A date has not been set for ground breaking but should be announced within the next month.
The current library location will be fully converted into a museum once the new library is built. It has yet to be determined if White House Chamber of Commerce offices will stay in the building once the move is made.
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