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Vol. CXXIV, No. 210
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14 Pierce County groups could share $100K for historic preservation projects Posted online Tues., Oct. 27 By Todd Matthews, Editor Fourteen historic preservation organizations in Pierce County are poised to share just over $100,000 in grant funding to help pay for a variety of local heritage projects and programs. The funding is part of the Pierce County Landmarks and Historic Preservation Commission's preservation grant program, which encourages countywide nonprofit organizations, public agencies, and owners of properties listed on local historic registers to apply for grants to help pay for historic preservation or historyrelated projects. Funds are provided by Washington State legislation enacted in 2005 that directs one dollar of a five-dollar filing fee toward historic preservation and historical programming. Maximum grant amounts fall into two categories: $15,000 for stabilization, restoration, or rehabilitation of local register-listed buildings or structures; and $7,500 for photographic/document preservation, historic markers, history research, and public events/ programming. In the past, grants have been used to pay for surveys of historic properties and historic documents in Pierce County, the preservation of historic newspaper clippings, and restoration of a homestead cabin dating back to 1885. This year's application deadline expired in July. Pierce County's Landmarks and Historic Preservation Commission received 20 grant applications, and evaluated those applications during public meetings in July and August, according to documents prepared by Pierce County staff. The commission recommended 14 applications share $100,405 in grant funding, while six applications were not recommended for funding. Here is the breakdown: Building Applications Recommended for Funding ($57,640) Northpoint Cooperative Preschool — Dash Point School Preservation Project / $15,000 Longbranch Improvement Club — Preservation Phase 1 / $12,640 Pioneer Farm Museum — Schoolhouse Roof Repairs / $7,500 Fox Island Chapel — Steeple Restoration Project / $15,000 Morse Wildlife Preserve Barn — West Shed Roof Repair / $7,500 Building Applications NOT Recommended for Funding ($15,000) Tacoma School District — Historic McCarver School Modernization / $15,000 Non-Building Applications Recommended for Funding ($42,765) Steilacoom Historical Society & Museum — Inter-
The Fort Nisqually Foundation was awarded a $5,000 grant from the Pierce County Landmarks and Historic Preservation Commission in 2012 to help rehabilitate the Granary Building at the Fort Nisqually Living History Museum. (FILE PHOTOS COURTESY METRO PARKS TACOMA)
pretive Signs / $4,000 Fort Nisqually Foundation — Conservation & Collection Care / $4,600 Washington State Historical Society — Conservation of Historic Tacoma Ephemera / $7,500 Tacoma Public Library — Historic Tacoma/Pierce County Architectural Plans Scanning Project / $3,000 Points Northeast Historical Society — Preserving/ Storage of Historic Photographs & Archival Material / $5,800 Puyallup Historical Society at Meeker Mansion — Newspaper Preservation / $865 Gig Harbor Boat Shop — Historic Avalon Pilot House Restoration / $7,500 Lakewood Historical Society — Historic Markers / $2,000 History Ink (HistoryLink) — Writing Our History: Pierce County / $7,500 Non-Building Applications NOT Recommended for Funding ($29,150) Tacoma Historical Society — Collection Care / $3,150 Pierce County Superior Court — Superior Court History Project / $7,500 Key Peninsula Historical Society and Museum — Preserving Key Peninsula History / $7,500 Buffalo Soldiers Museum — Labor Day Event / $7,000 Shanaman Sports Museum — Sports Program Flipbook / $4,000 Pierce County Council is tentatively scheduled to vote on a resolution to award the grants during a public meeting at 3 p.m. on Tues., Nov. 24, at the CountyCity Building, located at 930 Tacoma Ave. S., Room 1045, in Tacoma. More information is available online at piercecountywa.org. To read the Tacoma Daily Index's complete and comprehensive coverage of Pierce County Landmarks and Historic Preservation Commission's preservation grant program, visit our Web site for the following articles: — Grants available for Pierce County historic preservation projects (Tacoma Daily Index, Feb. 14, 2013) — Year In Review: Pierce County Historic Preservation Funding (Tacoma Daily Index, Dec. 24, 2012)
— 11 Tacoma, Pierce County groups awarded $54K for historic preservation projects (Tacoma Daily Index, Oct. 30, 2012) — 11 Tacoma, Pierce County groups could receive $54K for historic preservation projects (Tacoma Daily Index, Oct. 15, 2012) — Budget amendment bitter-sweet for Pierce County historic preservation (Tacoma Daily Index, March 20, 2009) — Department shift for Pierce County's historic preservation program? (Tacoma Daily Index, March 16, 2009) — Pierce County Council Committee will discuss proposed historic preservation funding cuts (Tacoma Daily Index, March 6, 2009) — Will $8 million budget shortfall touch Pierce County historic preservation? (Tacoma Daily Index, Jan. 29, 2009) — Pierce County Landmarks Commission will revisit preservation grant applications in public forum (Tacoma Daily Index, July 24, 2008) — Pierce County Landmarks Commission approves grant funding recommendations (Tacoma Daily Index, July 17, 2008) — Workshops available for Pierce County historic preservation grant applicants (Tacoma Daily Index, May 7, 2008) — Grants available for Pierce County historic preservation (Tacoma Daily Index, April 29, 2008) — Behind The Times: Nevermind the buildings. Can Pierce County restore its historic preservation program? (Tacoma Daily Index, April 2, 2008)