Preservation: Saving the Neighborhood

Saving the Neighborhood   Wyoming was still living the Wild West when the state’s first governor’s mansion was built in Cheyenne in 1904. It housed Wyoming’s First Families through 1976. Then it became a museum, called the Historic Governors’ Mansion. About five years ago, citizens and government officials successfully came together to renovate the mansion, which was in terrible shape. The mansion is a popular place for visitors to Cheyenne...but the neighborhood hasn’t been so luc