The Butte Citizens for Preservation and Revitalization is launching a new program to rehabilitate severely deteriorated, vacant, or otherwise at-risk homes on an ongoing basis.

The program, called Butte Historic Trust and operated as a subsidiary of Butte Citizens for Preservation and Revitalization (Butte CPR), will purchase dilapidated properties, restore them according to preservation standards, and then sell the homes for a small profit, putting those funds toward acquiring and renovating more houses.

Butte CPR is a nonprofit organization formed by a group of concerned citizens seeing properties, and the historic fabric of uptown butte going away and looking to about preserving Butte’s long history.

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