Congressionally directed spending - historic preservation fund grants-in-aid awarded through congressionally directed spending assist in the identification, evaluation, and protection of historic…

This Project Grant award of $500,000 was made by the National Park Service (CFDA 15.966 - Historic Preservation Fund Grants-in-Aid for Competitive Grants) to the County of Lehigh, PA to support masonry and roof repairs to the Lock Ridge Furnace Complex. The program aims to document, preserve, and interpret culturally significant historic properties across the United States, with a focus on properties associated with underrepresented communities, civil rights history, and sites related to the nation's founding era. This specific award will fund physical preservation work to restore and maintain this historic site over the project period from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2028.

Congressionally directed spending - historic preservation fund grants-in-aid awarded through congressionally directed spending assist in the identification, evaluation, and protection of historic properties by such means as education, survey, planning, technical assistance, preservation, documentation, and financial incentives like grants and tax credits available for historic properties. The grants support a broad range of preservation projects for historic properties including architectural services, historic structure reports, preservation plans, and physical preservation to sites in keeping with the secretary of the interiors standards and guidelines for archeology and historic preservation. Beneficiaries include states, tribes, local governments and nonprofits as designated by congress. This project is awarded to the local government, county of lehigh, for masonry and roof repairs to the lock ridge furnace complex.