Protectng Main Street's Historic Buildings
By National Trust for Historic Preservation
Preserving a community’s historic assets is one of the major goals of most Main Street programs. In El Dorado, Arkansas, a 2009 GAMSA winner, for example, the Main Street program was a driving force behind the downtown’s listing as a historic district in the National Register of Historic Places; and, just as importantly, it played a key role in getting the community to pass a local historic district ordinance, with design review and a preservation commission. In Keokuk, Iowa, and St. Charles, Illinois, both 2000 GAMSA winners, local historic district commissions have played pivotal roles in design review for façade improvement grants.
Learn more: http://www.preservationnation.org
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