This Year’s Awardees: $500 to Baker Country School Owned by the Prairie Arts Council which is located in Sheldon, Iowa and was established in 1936. $500 to Harrison #8 Country School Owned by Adair County Historical Museum and is located near Greenfield, Iowa and was established in the late 1800’s $200 to East Amsterdam Country […]
Preservation Iowa is proud to honor individuals, organizations, projects, and programs whose work demonstrates a commitment to excellence in historic preservation. In doing so, we hope to inspire others to take action to preserve, protect, and promote historic resources. We are delighted at this time to engage with interested parties in applying for the first round of the […]
We would like to welcome you to the fall 2016 edition of the Preservation Iowa new letter. We are glad to have you join us in staying up to date with a several important events that are upcoming and also those which have already occurred. We will be introducing topics of interest for the 2016 […]
The Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs announced that more than $32 million in historic preservation tax credits have been registered for 14 different projects in eight communities across the state for fiscal years 2016 and 2017. The State Historic Preservation and Cultural & Entertainment District Tax Credit program provides an income tax credit of up […]
By Ted Grevstad-Nordbrock Preservation Iowa Board Member & Assistant Professor of Community and Regional Planning at the College of Design, Iowa State University Historic preservation education has a long history at Iowa State University, perhaps longer than many people realize. Preservation classes have been offered here intermittently for three decades. Most of these were taught […]
Nomination Guidelines To submit a nomination to the Most Endangered Properties Program, please e-mail completed Nomination Forms in Word, images, letters of support, etc. to lajjchs@juno.com. Please use “Most Endangered Properties Nomination” in the e-mail subject line. For larger image files, we recommend sending them to the Preservation Iowa Drop Box account. Questions may be directed to Leigh […]
Preservation Iowa 25-year old (1991) year old not-for profit organization committed to preservation advocacy across the entire state of Iowa. Our two most visible programs are Iowa’s Most Endangered and Preservation at its Best. These two programs work well together because being listed as Most Endangered oftentimes leads to awareness, a preservation effort and a high-quality, […]
Thank you to the Exhibitors at the 2016 Preserve Iowa Summit in Davenport, Iowa! The Exhibit Hall will be available to Summit attendees on Friday, Sept. 16th from 8:00 AM to 3:30 PM. Below is a list of Exhibitors with a brief description of their products and services as well as contacts and websites for […]
President’s Greeting This year has been in very important year for preservation in the State of Iowa. Many changes have been implemented by the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs specifically in the State Historic Preservation Office. Some of these changes have been welcome and represent major improvement over the previous practices. Among those Preservation Iowa […]
Our neighbors to the west are looking for some help in identifying houses designed by an Omaha architect Everett Dodds and they need your help! Dodds published house plans in the Omaha Bee and the Omaha World Herald. Around 1914 he had the Murphy Calendar Company in Red Oak, Iowa publish a catalogue of his house plans available for purchase […]