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With a $12,000 grant from the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs, Coppin Chapel will soon see some improvements.
-Messenger photo by Elijah Decious
With a $12,000 grant from the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs, Coppin Chapel will soon see some improvements.
Fort Dodge’s historic Coppin Chapel will soon see some improvements thanks to a grant from the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs.
On Monday, the department announced a $12,084 grant for the First Avenue South church. Built in 1894 as St. Olaf Norwegian Lutheran Church, the building has served congregants of the African Methodist Episcopal Church since 1919. The grant will be used to hire a preservation architect to assess its condition and develop a plan for rehabilitation.
Nine Iowa communities receive historic preservation grants
BY BUSINESS RECORD STAFF
The historic Muscatine County Jail. Submitted photo
Nine Iowa communities have been selected to receive a total of $108,284 in grants for historic preservation projects. The State Historic Preservation Office, a bureau of the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs, awarded the grants through its Certified Local Government program for historic preservation. The projects and grant amounts are:
•Des Moines Historic Preservation Commission, $25,000 to revise its citywide historic preservation plan.
•Sioux City Historic Preservation Commission, $15,000 to survey its downtown for potential sites to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
LOWER MERIONÂ â Lower Merion has a lot of designated historic properties. Now, they will all be getting a fresh look through a photographic survey.
The Lower Merion Board of Commissioners Wednesday night approved a $27,500 contract with PS&S to create a new photographic survey of the townshipâs currently designated historic resources as an update to the Historic Resource Inventory.
Greg Prichard, Lower Merionâs historic preservation planner, said most of the projectâs funding is coming from a $25,000 grant from the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC), the stateâs historic preservation office. The township is required to match 10 percent, or $2,500, of the grant money.
Dec 10, 2020
BISMARCK – The North Dakota State Historic Preservation Office and the State Historical Society of North Dakota continue to seek public input on a survey of historic preservation goals and activities for the five-year period beginning Jan. 1, 2022.
The survey can be accessed at surveymonkey.com/r/M95B23D. Responses will be collected through Jan. 1 and will be used to determine the future of historic preservation in the state.
Periodic updating of North Dakota’s comprehensive historic preservation plan is a federal requirement for the state’s participation in the National Historic Preservation Program. Annually, the program brings approximately $750,000 into the state to underwrite building restorations, historic property surveys, National Register of Historic Places nominations, Certified Local Government initiatives, site protection programs, and technical assistance to the public.
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