Preservation Georgia online, Jan. 8-14, 2011

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January 8-14, 2011
- Snow, ice cause HPD to limit services and reschedule events - New National Register website content - LEED 2012 Public Comment Solicitations due January 14 - Available grants
Snow, ice cause HPD to limit services and reschedule events
This week's winter weather prevented us from opening our office on Monday and Tuesday. Hazardous driving conditions may prevent all staff from going into our office for the rest of the week, so please call

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Preservation Events
Check our Events Calendar for complete listings by date.
Submit your listings to: Helen Talley-McRae
This week's new listings
TO BE RESCHEDULED IN FEBRUARY January 11 - National Register of Historic Places public information meeting for the proposed Forest Avenue Historic District - Elberton contact Jennifer Willis at 706-213-3100 or jwillis@cityofelberton.net
POSTPONED TO FEBRUARY 8 - January 12 2012-17 State Historic Preservation Plan Public Input Meeting -11:00 am -12:00 pm Presentation, Coastal EMC Offices, 1265 South Coastal/Highway 17, Midway. Local contact Jason Kotarski, Coastal Regional Commission of Georgia, jkotarski@crc.ga.gov, 912-262-2877.
TO BE RESCHEDULED IN FEBRUARY January 13 - National Register of Historic Places public information meeting for the proposed Downtown Decatur Historic District - Decatur contact Regina Brewer at 404-371-8386 or regina.brewer@decaturga.com
January 17 - State holiday - HPD office closed
National and state conferences and meetings

ahead on our main number at 404-656-2840 before attempting to visit HPD for a meeting or to do research. As some staff are able to work from home this week via computer, you may be able to contact us directly via email. All staff email addresses are available on the staff directory page of our website. Next Monday, January 17, our office will be closed in observance of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. In the interest of safety, three public information meetings we had scheduled for this week have been postponed until next month. Details may be found under This week's new listings in the Preservation Events section of this enewsletter. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.
New National Register website content
Be sure to check out our recently updated Web page explaining How to get a property listed in the National Register in GA and our new related page, How to get a district listed in the National Register in GA
LEED 2012 Public Comment Solicitations due January 14
This historic building in Savannah was rehabilitated using state and federal tax incentives available for National Register-listed properties. It is also LEED certified.

(listed in previous newsletters)
January 25 - 2012-17 State Historic Preservation Plan Public Input Meeting -12:00 -1:00 pm Brown bag lunch presentation; Georgia Mountains Regional Commission Office, 1310 West Ridge Road, Gainesville. Local contactChip Wright, Georgia Mountains Regional Commission, cwright@gmrc.ga.gov, 770-5382626.
January 28 - Georgia National Register Review Board meeting - Historic Preservation Division Atlanta - contact Vivian Pugh at vivian. pugh@dnr.state.ga.us if you would like to attend.
February 1-12 - Georgia History Festival presented by The Georgia Historical Society Savannah
February 17-19 - 7th Savannah Symposium: The Spirituality of Place - Savannah College of Art and Design - Savannah
March 1-3 - Project Management for History Professionals professional development workshop - American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) - Atlanta History Center Atlanta
March 7-9 - Historic Preservation Advocacy Day and NCSHPO Annual Meeting - Washington D. C. - www.ncshpo.org
March 11-12 - Statewide Historic Preservation Commission Training - Carrollton - contact Chrissy Marlowe at marlowe@cviog.uga.edu or 706-542-9528.
March 30 - April 3 - Society for American Archaeology 76th annual meeting - Sacramento, California
March 31 - April 1 - Statewide Historic Preservation Conference - sponsored by the Historic Preservation Division, DNR and The Georgia Trust - Macon - contact Carole Moore at 404-463-8434
April 1-3 - 38th Annual Georgia Trust Annual Meeting - Macon
April 5-6 - Section 106 Essentials seminar Advisory Council on Historic Preservation Mobile, AL
April 12-13 - Cemetery Preservation seminar National Preservation Institute - Columbia, SC

According to the USGBC website, "LEED is an internationally recognized green building certification system, providing third-party verification that a building or community was designed and built using strategies aimed at improving performance across all the metrics that matter most: energy savings, water efficiency, CO2 emissions reduction, improved indoor environmental quality, and stewardship of resources and sensitivity to their impacts."
Proposed changes to the USGBC LEED Rating Systems are now open for public comments until January 14, 2011. This is an opportunity for preservation advocates to voice their opinions and concerns to encourage consideration of the impact to historic buildings by construction projects seeking LEED certification.
Visit HPD's Sustainability & Historic Buildings web page for more information.
Available grants
FFY2011 HPF grants - Application packets for the next cycle of federal grants made available to Certified Local Governments interested in completing survey and planning or building/site-specific predevelopment projects are now available on HPD's Web site. Due to budget constraints, application packets will not be mailed to the CLG list this year, but may be requested from Carole Moore (see below) on an individual basis. Eligible survey and planning activities include surveys, National Register nominations, design guidelines, brochures, website development, heritage education materials, workshops, conferences, etc. Eligible predevelopment projects include activities such as historic structure reports, preservation plans, or architectural drawings and specifications. The postmark deadline is February 1, 2011, and grant awards will be announced in March 2011. Projects may begin in April 2011 and must be completed by September 30, 2012. Contact Carole Moore, grants coordinator, at 404-463-8434 or carole.moore@dnr.state.ga.us.
Applications are being accepted for the Garden Club of Georgia's 2011

April 14 - Cemetery Landscapes: A Practical Guide to Care and Maintenance - National Preservation Institute - Columbia, SC
May 12-13 - Consultation and Protection of Native American Sacred Lands seminar National Preservation Institute - Atlanta - 703765-0100 May 19 -22 - Annual Civil War Preservation Trust Conference - Manassas, VA
Items on the Preservation Calendar are events and meetings of interest to preservationists. They not to be used for the detailed scheduling of meetings with HPD staff without contacting those individuals.

Historic Landscape and Garden Grant program. Historic gardens or landscapes owned by public, nonprofit organizations may be eligibie for 50/50 matching grants with a maximum of $3,000 per grant. This year the Garden Club is partnering with the Georgia Department of Economic Development to emphasize the importance of historic landscapes to heritage tourism within the state. As a result, projects funded should focus on the preservation, conservation, or marketing of the state's historic landscapes or gardens. Eligible activities to be considered this year include projects that enhance the experience of tourists as they visit a historic landscape/garden. For more information on the program and to download an application, go to the Garden Club of Georgia's website. For questions, please contact Mary Ann Eaddy at 404-651-5283. Please note that applications must be received no later than February 1, 2011.
The Costume Society of America is offering collection care grants intended to assist the costume and textiles collections of small museums(including historical societies,historic houses or sites, and other similar institutions) that have limited budget and staff. Funding may be used to support the care, conservation, and/or exhibition of costume and textiles that have historic, regional, or other significance and are intended for preservation. These grants, first awarded in 2003, may be used for appropriate supplies or display items, the services of a consultant or specialist, or other projects which relate directly to the institution's costume collection and foster the care or use of the collection at a level appropriate to the particular collection's most pressing needs. The application deadline is February 1, 2011.
Administered by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Preservation Services Fund Grants are awarded to nonprofit organizations and public agencies for preservation planning and education efforts. Grant awards range from $500 to $5,000. For more information, contact the Southern Office at 843-722-8552 or soro@nthp.org or visit the National Trust website. Application deadlines are February 1, June 1 and October 1 each year.
The Junior Board of Trustees of the Watson-Brown Foundation Inc.
will award up to $33,000 in grants for historic preservation projects in

14 Northeast Georgia counties. Public charities and other nonprofits from Banks, Barrow, Clarke, Franklin, Greene, Habersham, Hall, Hart, Jackson, Madison, Oconee, Oglethorpe, Stephens and Walton counties are eligible. For more information and to download an application form, visit the board's website. The application deadline is February 28, 2011.
The Division of Public Programs at the U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities funds humanities projects that are intended for broad public audiences at museums, libraries, historic sites and other historical and cultural organizations. New application guidelines are now posted on the NEH website for its America's Historical and Cultural Organizations grant competition. The next deadline is August 17. Other grant information is also available at the website. Grants support interpretive exhibitions, reading or film discussion series, historic site interpretation, lecture series and symposia, and digital projects. NEH encourages projects that offer multiple formats and make creative use of new technology to deliver humanities content. Program officers in the Division of Public Programs are available to discuss project ideas or to read a draft of a proposal. Call the NEH Division of Public Programs at 202-606-8269 for more information.
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