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Group proposes converting Rexburg Pump House into history visitor center
Summary
A local historical group proposed repurposing the city’s historic Pump House as a Rexburg History Visitor Center. Council members and residents expressed support but the city says ownership is unclear and funding and renovation costs remain to be resolved.
Doug Laidle proposed to the Rexburg City Council that the city repurpose the old Pump House on the corner of Second East and First South as a Rexburg History Visitor Center.
Laidle told the council the Pump House, built in 1906, sits on the same lot as Rexburg’s first church meeting house and early school and is constructed from the same stone as the Tabernacle. He said the well on the Pump House was discontinued in 1958 and that the site now holds rescued archival publications and photographs that lack a permanent public home after the museum’s move.
“This pump house is built with the same stone as the Tabernacle,” Laidle said. He explained volunteers from the Rexburg Historical Society and allied…
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