Historic Preservation Grants and Planning

The CSRA RC, under contract with the Historic Preservation Division (HPD) of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, provides historic preservation assistance to member jurisdictions, non-profits, and individual citizens. 

This program includes development of local and regional plans and assistance with historic resource surveys, National Register and Georgia Register of Historic Places nominations, historic preservation grants, preservation tax incentives applications, Section 106 compliance of the National Historic Preservation Act, and promoting public education and awareness of the region’s historic heritage. 

The program’s technical assistance includes the Regional Historic Preservation Planner serving as staff start-up and advisor to local governments interested in or currently participating in the Certified Local Government program.  

Recent historic preservation projects undertaken and completed by the RC include:

• Rehabilitation of the Fitzpatrick Hotel in Washington-Wilkes County.
• Restoration of the Taliaferro County Courthouse Towers (The two towers were re-roofed, spires reconstructed, wood repaired/ replaced and painted, and the historic clockworks rehabbed to working order—it chimes!)
• Nomination of the recently restored Library at Old Town Plantation, in Jefferson County, for a Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation award.  (The designation was given “Excellence in Restoration” for restoring the 1904 building designed by architect Willis Denny and owned by Thomas and Martha Crouch Black, and Edward Crouch, IV.)
• Assistance with the Woodrow Wilson House Steering Committee of Historic Augusta.
• Funding for Warren County to develop a feasibility study to provide existing conditions and costs for rehabilitating the Knox Theater in downtown Warrenton.
  
• Assistance with the development of the Harlem Historic Preservation Commission (HPC) historic preservation ordinance, bylaws, and rules of procedure.
  
• Certified Local Governments—assistance to CSRA local governments to establish the Historic Preservation Commissions of:
  
  
  • Harlem,
  • Lincolnton,
  • Thomson,
  • Waynesboro, and
  • Wrens.

Historic preservation grants are limited, but can be applied for competitively and successfully as assistance for historic resources projects using the Georgia Heritage Fund, Survey and Planning Grants for CLG’s, Transportation Enhancement funds, Local Development Fund, Preserve America funds for designated communities, and Save America’s Treasures for National Historic Landmarks or National Register-listed properties at the national level of significance.