Governor Gregoire Announces Recipients of Historic Preservation Grants

For Immediate Release: July 26, 2007

OLYMPIA � Governor Chris Gregoire today announced the recipients of over $100,000 in grants to support local historic preservation programs. The Washington Department of Archaeology and Historic Preservation will award the 11 grants to local governments to assist in their efforts to protect important historic properties and resources for future generations.

�Historic preservation programs bring together local government and the community to protect and preserve our state�s irreplaceable historic and cultural resources,� said Governor Gregoire. �These grants support their efforts to tell the story of Washington�s past for generations to come.�

The grants will aid preservation efforts by providing support to identify historic properties, place historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places and create historic preservation plans for these areas. They will also support two training sessions on sound preservation principles for staff of the Historic Preservation Commissions.

Since 2002, the program has funded a broad variety of significant preservation projects totaling more than $650,000.

Grant Recipients:

• City of Chehalis: $12,000, Chehalis Facade Improvement Program
  
• City of Cheney: $8,000, Historic Structure Report - James Madison Moorman House
  
• City of Dayton: $4,208, Creation of two local historic districts
  
• City of Everett: $10,000, Downtown Everett Historic Preservation Plan
  
• City of Gig Harbor: $13,000, Survey/Inventory of Downtown Gig Harbor
  
• City of Spokane: $5,308, National Alliance of Preservation Commission's CAMP Training
  
• City of Tacoma: $5,308, National Alliance of Preservation Commission's CAMP Training
  
• City of Walla Walla: $15,000, Survey/Inventory Downtown Walla Walla
  
• City of Wenatchee: $6,700, National Register Nomination for Downtown Historic District
  
• City of Yakima: $12,000, Survey/Inventory of Barge-Chestnut Neighborhood
  
• King County: $13,000, City of Kent Survey and Enumclaw Plateau Barn Survey

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