**FY 20-21 NATIONAL PARK SERVICE HISTORIC PRESERVATION GRANT APPLICATION PERIOD HAS CLOSED**
Each year the Division of Historic Preservation distributes an allocation of federal funds for historic preservation projects through a competitive grants process. These funds are from the National Park Service, U. S. Department of the Interior. The focus of the grant proposals should be related to ongoing state and federally mandated programs and initiatives that are outlined in the Louisiana Comprehensive Plan.
In 2020, LASHPO will give special priority to Digitizing Historic Resources. Other proposals that relate to ongoing state and federally mandated programs and initiatives outlined in the Louisiana Comprehensive Plan entitled First We Make a Roux: Ingredients for Preservation Partner ships in Louisiana: 2017-2025, will also be considered. These initiatives include but are not limited to:
Goal 1: Expand Existing Partnerships and Collaborations and Establish New…
- Creating webinars, story boards, and virtual tours
- Documenting local musicians, restaurants, food halls, dance halls, bars, etc.
- Enhancing museum online curation and virtual tours
- Transcribing or collecting oral histories
Goal 2: Emphasize the Importance of Education and Public Knowledge
- Creating or enhancing digital databases, maps and websites
- Digitizing Local historic district maps and creating websites
- Digitization of documents and collections that relate to the built environment for online publications
- Building statewide digital databases of documentation materials
All proposals must include an outreach, public education or media component within the overall proposed grant project.
Typical recipients include historic organizations, parish governments, economic development districts, planning commissions, museum houses, state agencies, municipal governments, educational institutions, historic district commissions and Certified Local Governments (CLG).
Previously funded projects include the development of preservation plans, surveys of historic districts, preparation of National Register nominations, Historic American Building Survey (HABS) documentation and educational activities to promote historic preservation. Typical funded CLG projects include development of design guidelines for historic districts, municipal Historic Resource Inventory Surveys, feasibility studies on a single historic building or groups of historic buildings, condition assessments and historic structures reports, public information projects relative to historic preservation and historic preservation training programs for officials and local citizens. You can view previous Grant funded projects within the table at the bottom of the page.
These awarded grant funds must be matched by non-federal monies on at least a 50/50 basis, though grantees may elect to overmatch. Grant funds are distributed on a reimbursable basis (in other words, the recipient makes an expenditure and is subsequently reimbursed for the grant portion of the expenditure when the necessary billing documentation is received).
For more information contact:
Andrea McCarthy
Tel: 225.342.8164
E-mail: amcarthy@crt.la.gov
CLG Contact:
Ray Scriber
rscriber@crt.la.gov
(225) 342-8162
