A historical site in Brown County is receiving a $44,000 grant. The Indiana Historical Society announced the grant on Tuesday, which will go to the Friends of T. C. Steele State Historic Site. The organization, a nonprofit that supports projects and programs at the historic site, received a Heritage Support Grant to recreate the painter’s studio wagon.

Organizers say that Steele used his wagon to work as he traveled through Indiana with his family. Acquired in 1896, the wagon had a small cooking stove and large windows that Steele could look through while painting.

“The original studio wagon burned in a fire in 1913,” said Cate Whetzel, project manager and program developer at the historic site. “The new studio wagon will be a permanent outdoor exhibit at the T. C. Steele State Historic Site, open to visitors three seasons of the year. We hope to welcome guests to an unveiling party by the end of the summer.”

IHS officials say that this $44,000 grant is the first awarded to a Brown County organization and one of 13 bestowed statewide as part of IHS’s fourth round of Heritage Support Grants. These grants were made possible by Lilly Endowment, Inc.