This $500,000 project grant from the National Park Service will support the rehabilitation of the George Alexander Towns residence in Atlanta, Georgia. The residence, built in 1910 and located in the Atlanta University Center Historic District, will be adaptively reused as a community education space through repairs to address water infiltration and fire/smoke damage issues. Preserve Black Atlanta, Inc. will convert the home of the early 20th century civil rights trailblazer into a cultural...
This Project Grant award of $750,000 was provided by the Department of the Interior National Park Service under the Historic Preservation Fund Grants-In-Aid program (CFDA 15.904). The funding will assist the Trust for Public Land, a national nonprofit, in preserving the historic Prince Hall Masonic Lodge site in Atlanta, Georgia. Specifically, the grant will support replacement of mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and fire monitoring systems, as well as work on the roof, drainage system,...
The federal Project Grant award of $310,000 from the National Park Service's Historic Preservation Fund Grants-in-Aid for Competitive Grants program (CFDA 15.966) will fund the preservation and interpretation of the DeWitt-McCrary House in Macon, Georgia. The grant was awarded to the Macon Bibb County Urban Development Authority and will support architectural services, historic structure reports, preservation plans, and physical preservation work for this culturally significant historic property...
This $500,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Park Service under the Historic Preservation Fund Grants-in-Aid for Competitive Grants program (CFDA 15.966) will fund repairs and improvements to the Parren J. Mitchell House in Baltimore, MD. The grant, awarded to the Upton Planning Committee, Inc. on December 1, 2024, will support restoration of the historic property's masonry, exterior woodwork, doors and windows, plaster, and wall systems. The project aims to preserve this culturally...
The National Park Service awarded a $750,000 Historic Preservation Fund Grants-In-Aid (CFDA 15.904) project grant to the Friends of Antioch, Inc. to rehabilitate the Antioch Baptist Church in Crawfordville, Georgia. This project is part of the African American Civil Rights (AACR) program, which aims to document, interpret, and preserve sites and stories related to the African American struggle for equal rights. The grant will fund architectural services, historic structure reports,...
This $750,000 Project Grant was awarded on June 1, 2024 by the National Park Service under the Historic Preservation Fund Grants-In-Aid program (CFDA 15.904) to the Atlanta Business League Foundation, Inc. The funding will be used to rehabilitate the Ashby Theatre, a historic site in Atlanta, Georgia that is listed or eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places. The grant supports architectural services, historic structure reports, preservation planning, and physical...
This $750,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Park Service's Historic Preservation Fund Grants-In-Aid program (CFDA 15.904) will support the rehabilitation and preservation of the historic Campbell Chapel AME Church in Americus, Georgia. The grant recipient, Historic Campbell Chapel Restoration Project Inc., a nonprofit organization, will use the funding to conduct architectural services, historic structure reports, preservation planning, and physical preservation work on the structure....
This federal Project Grant award of $496,000.00 was provided by the National Park Service, under the Historic Preservation Fund Grants-in-Aid for Competitive Grants program (CFDA 15.966), to the nonprofit organization Historic Campbell Chapel Restoration Project Inc. The grant funding will support structural repairs and preservation efforts for the historic Campbell Chapel AME Church in Americus, Georgia. The project scope includes architectural services, historic structure reports, preservation...
The National Park Service awarded a $4,819,535 Project Grant under the Historic Preservation Fund Grants-In-Aid program (CFDA 15.904) to the nonprofit organization Reinvestment Partners. The grant will fund the rehabilitation of the historic Harriet Tubman YWCA site in Durham, North Carolina. This award is part of the African American Civil Rights (AACR) grant program, which supports the documentation, interpretation, and preservation of sites and stories related to the African American struggle...
This $8,994,272 federal Project Grant award was provided by the National Park Service's Historic Preservation Fund Grants-In-Aid program (CFDA 15.904) to the Famicos Foundation, a non-profit organization and community development corporation in Cleveland, Ohio. The grant will fund the rehabilitation of the St. Marks Presbyterian Church, a historic property listed or eligible for the National Register of Historic Places. The project period runs from June 1, 2024 to May 31, 2027. The grant...