PUTNEY, Vt. (AP) - A Vermont general store that dates to the 1790s is getting a new owner.
The Putney Historical Society is set to close the sale of the store on Wednesday, and the incoming owners Mike and Kim Cosco are slated to take over the store the next day, the Brattleboro Reformer reports .
The building has been managed for more than two years by the historical society’s Betsy McIsaac and Lyssa Papazian since shortly after the death of the previous owner.
The building itself, which was rebuilt after two fires a decade ago, will continue to be owned by the historical society, McIsaac said.
The Coscos, who learned the store was for sale from an online ad, owned and operated the West Boxford, Massachusetts, general store, called West Village Provisions, for the past eight years. They have already sold that store to an employee, McIsaac said.
The Putney General Store was first built in 1796.
After an electrical fire in 2008, the historical society bought the building and began to restore it. But in late 2009, an arsonist burned the building to the ground.
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