Historic Building Recovery Grant Program

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Contents 1 Overview 1.1 News 1.2 Program Details 1.2.1 Criteria For Eligibility 1.2.2 Timeline 1.2.3 Public Meetings 1.2.4 Contact Information 1.2.5 Forms

[edit] Overview

This page contains information pertaining to the Historic Building Recovery Grant Program, announced recently in this Times-Picayune article.

[edit] News

• Tuesday, November 14, 2006 The program website has been updated with additional document formats and a FAQ (still under development.)

• Friday, November 3, 2006 According to the LA DHP there has been an "unusually high volume of inquiries."

[edit] Program Details

[edit] Criteria For Eligibility

This information is excerpted from the Historic Building Recovery Grant Program Application.

• Building must be at least 50 years old to qualify for this program.

• National Register of Historic Places Status: To qualify, buildings must fit within one of the following National Register of Historic Places categories: BUILDINGS THAT DO NOT FALL WITHIN ONE OF THE CATEGORIES BELOW WILL NOT QUALIFY FOR A HISTORIC BUILDING RECOVERY GRANT.
  1. Individually listed on the National Register;
  2. Individually eligible for the National Register, as determined by the State Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO);
  3. A historic building (as determined by the SHPO) in a National Register historic district;
  4. A historic building (as determined by the SHPO) within a district being officially treated as eligible for the National Register by mutual agreement of the SHPO and FEMA; or
  5. A historic building (as determined by the SHPO) in a historic district that is being proposed by the SHPO or FEMA to be treated as eligible for the National Register.

[edit] Timeline

Applications must be received by December 15, 2006.

October 15, 2006	Materials available for historic building grants program.
October 2006	Historic building grants advertising and public meetings underway, applications being distributed.
December 15, 2006	Deadline for all completed historic building grants applications to be received by the SHPO.
January 22, 2007	Panels finish ranking and tabulating all historic building grants applications.
January 31, 2007	First historic building grant agreements signed; construction begins.
September 15, 2008	Deadline for full completion of all historic building grant projects.

[edit] Public Meetings

Too late to attend, but the presentation is available (Microsoft Powerpoint document.)

Date	Time	City	Location	Address
October 19	6:00 p.m.	New Iberia	Sliman Theater for the Performing Arts (formerly the Evangeline Theater)	129 East Main Street
October 24	6:00 p.m.	New Orleans	Grace Episcopal Church	3700 Canal Blvd.
October 25	6:00 p.m.	Lake Charles	Central School Arts and Humanities Center, Room 108	809 Kirby Street
October 26	6:00 p.m.	Franklinton	Hillcrest Baptist Church	2201 East Washington Street
October 30	6:00 p.m.	New Orleans	Concert Hall, Holy Angels Catholic Church	3500 St. ClaudeAvenue

[edit] Contact Information

• Historic Building Recovery Grants call center
  • Email: mailto:hpgrantscallcenter@crt.state.la.us
  • Telephone: (225) 342-0227 or toll free at 866-406-7043
  • Web site: [[1]]

[edit] Forms

• Historic Building Recovery Grant Program Guidelines (Adobe Acrobat document, also available as a Microsoft Word document)
• Historic Building Recovery Grant Program Application (Adobe Acrobat document, also available as a Microsoft Word document)