Built in 1916, Pollard Hall of Selma University, founded as the Alabama Baptist Normal and Theological School in 1878, served as an administrative center for visitors, a meeting place for major figures in Black education, such as Booker T. Washington, and a home for several university presidents. Pollard Hall is a contributing resource to the proposed Selma University Historic District. This grant project will help repair the roof, HVAC system, electrical and plumbing systems, and install an elevator. The grant recipient will also contribute $496,414 in matching funds.

Noow Hít is the last surviving example of Lingít vernacular architecture in Haines, Alaska. It was started in 1959 and dedicated August 11, 1962, to preserve knowledge of traditional construction techniques as part of the Alaska Indian Arts, Inc. carving program. The construction was guided by Lingít elders who had lived in traditional tribal houses in the late 1800s. In 2023, the Chilkoot Indian Association received a Save America’s Treasures grant for the stabilization and rehabilitation of the Noow Hít tribal house.

The National Historic Landmark-eligible Barrio Viejo is a neighborhood located in the traditional Hispanic area of Tucson, parts of which date back to the 1860s. It contains Barrio Libre, a National Register-listed historic district, significant for its collection of Sonoran row house architecture. The Arizona Department of Parks is using grant funds to update the inventory of Barrio Libre and the broader Barrio Viejo neighborhood and provide context development in support of the National Historic Landmark nomination.

The natural hot springs in Arkansas yielded a rise in popularity of bathhouses around the turn of the 20th century. Of the many bathhouses built in what is now Hot Springs National Park between 1892-1923, eight survive today. The oldest is the Hale Bathhouse. With the assistance of the federal Historic Tax Credit (HTC), it underwent a significant 11-month rehabilitation to convert it into Hotel Hale, which now employs more than 40 people. Significant upgrades were needed before the Hale Bathhouse could be reopened to the public. Use of the HTC allowed the developer to exercise greater care in preserving the building’s historic character.

The Pala Band of Mission Indians received a grant to prepare a National Register nomination for a deeply significant part of the traditional territory of the Kuupangawichum (Cupeño) people. The Traditional Cultural Landscape includes portions of the village of Kupa, from which the Cupeño were forcibly removed by the federal government in 1903 for a three-day march to the Pala Reservation. The Pala Band is now the trustee of a 240-acre parcel of land surrounding Kupa that includes the Kupa cemetery, the chapel of St. Francis of Assisi, and numerous cultural, historic, and sacred sites.

The 2010 U.S. Census identified more than 22,000 American Indian and Indigenous Peoples living in Denver, representing more than 100 tribes. However, the city has no American Indian and Indigenous Peoples historic resources listed in the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). This grant will develop a historic context report for significant American Indian and Indigenous Peoples historic resources and nominate at least one resource to the National Register of Historic Places.

The Mary and Eliza Freeman Houses in Bridgeport, Connecticut, are significant as the last surviving houses of “Little Liberia.” This was a settlement of free African Americans in Bridgeport that began in 1831 and reached its highest population just prior to the outbreak of the Civil War. The Mary and Eliza Freeman Center for History and Community received a $750,000 AACR grant in 2023 for the preservation and rehabilitation of the 1848 Eliza Freeman House.

The Masonic Hall and Grand Theater, also known as the Grand Opera House, in Wilmington, Delaware, received a 2008 Save America’s Treasures (SAT) grant to support critical infrastructure upgrades and interior renovations. Originally listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the project focused on HVAC improvements, roof repairs, installation of a security system, replacement of exit doors, and renovation of common areas and vacant spaces to better serve the community and ensure public safety. With work completed in 2014, the Grand Opera House continues to play a key role in downtown Wilmington’s cultural and performing arts scene.

The ACE Theater in Miami opened around 1930 and served as the only movie theater available to African Americans in the area for decades. It became a cultural mainstay for Miami’s Black population through the 1970s.

Atlanta’s Ashby Theatre opened in 1934 offering African Americans a state-of-the art experience and welcomed them through the front door to watch movies on the main level. Herman Perry, a successful African American entrepreneur who founded Citizens Trust Bank, built the theater.

Built in 1882, Iolani Palace is the only royal palace on U.S. soil and a powerful symbol of the independent Kingdom of Hawai‘i. Nationally significant and deeply important to Native Hawaiian heritage, the site welcomes visitors from across the islands and around the world. A 2020 Save America’s Treasures (SAT) grant supported the rehabilitation and repair of the palace’s roof to protect the structure and the historic collections it houses. The project included removing and re-installing approximately 9,000 square feet of slate roofing, treating and painting architectural elements, and making critical repairs to the glass cupola and skylight.

The Idaho Heritage Trust will use its $750,000 grant to support the rehabilitation of historic theaters in rural communities across the state. Theaters not only provide a social aspect to rural communities, but they often drive a town’s economy as well. The Historic Wilson Theatre in Rupert, Idaho, underwent a two-decade restoration that served as a catalyst for a downtown renaissance in the community.

The Wabash Avenue YMCA in Bronzeville was a major social and educational center in the center of Chicago’s African American community in the early 1900s. It provided housing and job training for Black Americans migrating into Chicago in the early 20th century. In FY 2021, $436,375 was awarded for its rehabilitation. It is an important site in the newly created Bronzeville-Black Metropolis National Heritage Area.

The redevelopment of the historic General Electric complex in Fort Wayne, Indiana, into Electric Works is a transformative project with a strong emphasis on community impact. This $286 million public-private partnership will breathe new life into the long-vacant 12-acre West Campus by creating more than 730,000 square feet of space for education, health care, workforce training, retail, and innovation. It will create approximately 2,000 construction jobs, most of which will be union and pay a living wage, and support more than 1,500 permanent jobs once operational.

The Whitney in downtown Atlantic, Iowa—a former hotel with roots dating back to 1879—has undergone a $4.9 million rehabilitation into a mixed-use development featuring a restaurant, offices, and 16 affordable residential units. This is the first project supported by the Irvin Henderson Main Street Revitalization Fund, leveraging $2 million in New Markets Tax Credits and more than $1.4 million in federal and state Historic Tax Credits. Located in a low-income census tract, the project has created 23 permanent jobs and represents the first significant addition of market-rate housing downtown in more than two decades, helping to spur broader economic revitalization in the community.

Constitution Hall in Topeka, Kansas, a nationally significant site associated with the free state movement and the Underground Railroad, has undergone a major preservation effort to allow public access for the first time in decades. The project was supported by $292,670 in federal funding and $312,670 in non-federal matching funds from Friends of the Free State Capitol Inc., and is now complete. Work included the installation of a fire egress stairway and elevator, ADA-compliant restrooms, fire code-compliant vestibules, and repairs to floor joists and historic wall and ceiling finishes. The project also modernized the building with new electrical systems, lighting, and HVAC, ensuring it can safely host the public year-round.

In 1887, Jackson Hall was the first building constructed as part of Kentucky State University’s campus. Upgrades will address structural issues, improve space use and accessibility, and implement environmental upgrades that will directly support the museum and the Center for Excellence for the Study of Kentucky African Americans.

Sabine High School was constructed in 1957 in conjunction with Many High School to serve as ‘equal’ high schools to Black and white students, respectively. The new Sabine High School was the first school for African Americans in Many, Louisiana, since the 1928 Rosenwald school at Highland Avenue. It served as a segregated school until 1970 when it became Many Junior High. This grant will rehabilitate the school buildings by securing the building envelope.

Frances Perkins made history as the first woman to serve in a presidential cabinet. As the U.S. Secretary of Labor under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Perkins was involved in the creation of the New Deal and Social Security program. She was a lifelong advocate for social justice and economic security. The Frances Perkins Center received a $500,000 SAT grant in FY 2019 to restore the Frances Perkins Homestead National Landmark in Newcastle, Maine.

Rosenwald Schools tell a critically important story of Black education in the American South. Maryland has more than 50 surviving Rosenwald schools, but only seven are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Historic resources related to Black history are underrepresented in all the state’s survey, documentation, and registration efforts. This project will nominate approximately three schools based on the existing 2010 Multiple Property Submission. The applicant will be providing $12,200 in additional funding, for a total funding amount of $42,200.

The League of Women for Community Service is among the country’s oldest continuing Black women’s clubs. In 1920, the League purchased a 1857 brownstone in Boston’s South End for its headquarters. It provided rooms to Black women college students who were not allowed to stay in dormitories due to segregation, such as Coretta Scott King when she attended the Boston Conservatory. In FY 2020, it received funds for its exterior stabilization and restoration.

The Historic Detroit Association of Colored Women’s Clubs (DACWC)—known today as the Detroit Association of Women’s Club—headquarters symbolizes resilience and determination as Black women overcame discriminatory restrictions in the 1940s, transforming the property to establish a lasting legacy for social reform and community engagement. The DACWC bought the house in 1941 to serve as headquarters for the association. It is here that the association, and particularly its president, Rosa Gragg, addressed numerous social issues including civil rights. This grant will foster its ongoing preservation by producing a historic structure report and a nomination to the National Register of Historic Places.

The Preservation Alliance of Minnesota and Rethos: Places Reimaged, the coordinating partner of the Minnesota Main Street program, received $700,000 to build a grant program, “Looking Up,” for Main Street building owners to boost investment in their upper floor spaces. Many Minnesota Main Street communities, like Red Wing, experience underutilized upper floors, and these funds will support economic growth in the community.

The Margaret Walker Center in Ayer Hall on Jackson State University’s campus is an archive and museum dedicated to the preservation, interpretation, and dissemination of African American history and culture. The 1903 structure is the oldest building on campus. Margaret Walker founded the Institute of the Study of the History, Life, and Culture of Black People in 1968, and today the center “seeks to honor her academic, artistic, and activist legacy through its archival collections, exhibits, and public programs.”

The historic Arcade Building in downtown St. Louis, originally constructed in 1909 and 1919, has been transformed from an abandoned skyscraper into a vibrant mixed-use development. The building now houses a satellite campus for Webster University and 282 residential units—72% of which are affordable to households earning 60% or less of the area median income. Located in the Downtown Development District, the project received strong city support and has helped spur further revitalization in the area. It created 180 union-wage construction jobs and prioritized contracting with women- and minority-owned businesses, which received 20 percent of the construction contracts. In addition to its residential and educational components, the project supports more than 30 permanent jobs and offers 50,000 square feet of below-market space to Webster University, serving more than 400 students annually.

In 2019, The Montana Historic Society received eight brick-and-mortar grants totaling $491,067, awarded through the Revitalizing Montana’s Rural Heritage (RMRH) program, with work completed in 2023. Funding came from a $391,067 Paul Bruhn Historic Revitalization Subgrant and $100,000 from the National Park Service's Historic Preservation Fund. The project supported preservation in rural communities and led to National Register listings for the F.M. Mack Mercantile and the Basin Creek Caretakers House.

The Durham Museum, housed in the historic Omaha Union Station in Omaha, Nebraska, received a Save America’s Treasures grant in 2024. This railway station was key to Omaha’s growth at the turn of the 20th century and is a stunning example of Art Deco architecture that personified the era. Save America’s Treasures grants support shovel-ready historic preservation projects in states and territories across the country.

The Nevada State Historic Preservation Officer (NVSHPO) will use this grant to conduct archival research and outreach to women’s organizations in Nevada to draft a report of women’s history in the state, with an emphasis on suffrage and women in leadership. They will also use this report to identify places that tell a woman’s story with the goal to nominate a site to the National Register. The NVSHPO is currently seeking subgrant proposals to complete this important work.

The Dover Friends Meetinghouse, built in 1768, is the last remaining 18th-century meetinghouse in New Hampshire. It played a key role in early efforts to resist British rule and promote religious freedom and non-violent civil disobedience. A new SAT grant will fund roof stabilization and the installation of a fire sprinkler system, with the grantee contributing $233,017 in matching funds to help preserve this historic site for future generations.

Paulsdale, the childhood home of suffragist Alice Paul and the current headquarters of the Alice Paul Institute, received $302,950 from the History of Equal Rights grant program. Alice Paul authored the Equal Rights Amendment, advocated for the passing of the 19th amendment, and fought tirelessly for gender equality in the United States. The funds will go to structural stabilization and improvements to the house’s exterior. The house is New Jersey’s only National Historic Landmark dedicated to a woman. It currently serves as a museum dedicated to the struggle for gender equality.

This project will update the listings for three sites—Chaco Culture National Historical Park, Salmon Ruins, and Aztec Ruins National Monument—to include Zuni significance. This will include interviews with Zuni leaders, documentation of traditional religious and cultural practices, and broadening the scope of each site’s historical context to include both past and present Zuni cultural values.

In 1985, the Yiddish Art Theatre was listed on the NRHP but did not address its important LGBTQ+-associated narratives as a nightlife and performing arts venue in the immediate post-World War II era—a time of intense, organized anti-gay harassment—and as the live/workspace of three prominent gay artists with connections to the AIDS epidemic. The site is additionally significant in the period of 1945-1992 in the areas of art, performing arts, politics/AIDS, and social history/LGBTQ+. This is Phase 6 of URC grants adding diversity to the NRHP by including LGBTQ+ resources.

The Mill House at Revolution Cotton Mills in Greensboro is the final phase of a $37.7 million redevelopment of a once-thriving textile mill complex dating back to the early 1900s. Led by Self-Help Ventures and supported by $6.1 million in federal Historic Tax Credits and a $5 million New Markets Tax Credit allocation from NTCIC, the project will convert the former cloth warehouse into a vibrant mixed-use hub with 33 mixed-income residential units, coworking offices, and more than 57,000 square feet of retail and commercial space. The redevelopment is expected to create 200 above-living-wage construction jobs and support 225 permanent positions upon completion. Special emphasis is placed on contracting with Minority- and Women-led Business Enterprises and offering below-market office space to local nonprofits and small businesses.

Fort Totten sits on the shores of Devils Lake. It operated from 1890 to 1959 as the Fort Totten Indian Industrial School. The school focused on assimilating local Sioux and Chippewa children into white American society and cutting them off from their Indigenous cultures. It was added to the National Register in 1971, and the State Historical Society of North Dakota will use its grant funds to update Fort Totten’s nomination.

The Eleanor B. Rainey Memorial Institute Building, Cleveland’s sole surviving settlement house since 1904, served as a beacon of educational and social support for immigrant and minority communities during the reformist Settlement House Movement. The Rainey Institute stewarded this historic site until 2011. The HER grant project aims to revitalize this vital community asset, ensuring its sustained function as a community center through comprehensive rehabilitation efforts.

The Greenwood Community Development Corporation will use this grant to add new roofs and make other important repairs and improvements to 10 buildings comprising the Greenwood Center. This block is all that remains of Black Wall Street, at one time the greatest thriving Black business community in the United States that was destroyed during the 1921 Tulsa race massacre.

Influential Native American jazz artist Jim Pepper’s Portland, Oregon, home was nominated in December 2022 to the National Register of Historic Places. Pepper, a Kaw and Muscogee Creek musician, is internationally renowned for his compositions melding popular jazz music with rock, folk, and especially traditional Native American music. The nomination was funded, in part, by a CLG grant from the Oregon State Historic Preservation Office.

Following construction in 1917, the Delaware Power Station played a critical role in the city’s electrification and industrial growth, ultimately generating nearly half the city’s electricity by 1923, only to become obsolete by the late 20th century. After being decommissioned and sold by Exelon, the site was acquired in 2019 and is now being redeveloped into “The Battery,” a $153.6 million mixed-use campus on the Delaware River. This adaptive reuse project will include more than 280 residential units, office and event space, and public greenspaces, all while leveraging its location within a Keystone Opportunity Zone and using $21 million in federal Historic Tax Credits.

The ILZRO House in Foster, Rhode Island, received an Underrepresented Communities Grant in 2025 to recognize the little-known history of Disability Design. This first-of-its-kind house, a partnership between Rhode Island School of Design and the International Lead and Zinc Research Organization, was built in 1972 and was purposefully designed by architect Marc Harrison, a pioneer of universal design, to be accessible for all.

The Dillon Community Alliance in Dillon, South Carolina, received a $750,000 Paul Bruhn Historic Revitalization Grant in FY 2022 for the stabilization of commercial historic district buildings. This is the first Paul Bruhn grant issued in the state of South Carolina.

The State Theatre in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. a listed National Register property, received a 2010 Save America’s Treasures (SAT) grant to support its rehabilitation in line with the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties. The scope of work included architectural and engineering plans, asbestos removal, electrical and mechanical upgrades, HVAC improvements, installation of fire sprinkler and alarm systems, roof repairs, and the restoration of historic coffered plaster moldings and stencils. This project enhanced Sioux Falls’ downtown vibrancy while preserving a significant piece of South Dakota’s architectural and entertainment history.

Historic Collins Chapel Church in Memphis, Tennessee, represents the oldest Black congregation in continuous existence, which first gathered together beginning in 1841. The congregation purchased the lot where the church building now stands in 1859. It was first a wooden structure but was bricked over for safety after the Memphis Massacre of 1866. Historic Collins Chapel Church has continuously been at the center of African American culture and civil rights in Memphis.

The Office of Historic Preservation launched an initiative to preserve and promote San Antonio’s African American heritage. The Unrepresented Community grant will facilitate the historic resource survey of five historically African American neighborhoods within a three-mile radius of downtown that remain largely untouched from urban renewal and modern redevelopment.

The Reactivating Utah’s Rural Main Streets program will provide subgrants to National Register listed properties located in the state’s designated Main Street communities. Subgrants will fund the conversion of upper floors into much needed housing and the creation of publicly accessible ground level spaces to support new businesses. The grantee will provide $336,579 in non-federal match.

The Town of Rockingham, Vermont, received a grant for its proposal “Kchi Pôntegok - Revisiting the Historic Landscape of the Bellows Falls Petroglyphs.” The town is partnering with Elnu Abenaki Tribe to amend and enhance the existing 1990 National Register of Historic Places listing of the Bellows Falls Petroglyphs site, bringing Indigenous voices into the dialogue around one of the most significant and, at the same time, disrespected cultural landscapes in the northeast. The petroglyphs depict a rarely seen assemblage of anthropomorphic figures that are believed to be unique in New England and uncommon even in surrounding geographic areas.

Built in 1828 as the home for the 160-acre Little Scotland Plantation, the Mansion House predates the founding of Hampton University by 40 years. During the Civil War, the Mansion House served as a hospital for nearby Camp Hamilton. Beginning in 1867, it served as the residence for teachers and General Armstrong, who founded Hampton University in 1868. In 1893, it became the home for Hampton University presidents until August 2022. This grant project will address upgrades to the mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems, repair deteriorated structural elements, and repair and restore the outside of the building and deteriorated finishes.

This grant is for a WWI Navy hangar that became the home of the 'Boys in the Boat,' the 1936 gold medal rowing team from the University of Washington in Seattle, in order to facilitate accessibility and safety for the next generation. This National Parks award was significant in its funding of vital seismic upgrades—at just under $500,000—but was critical in pushing forward to complete nearly $20 million in private fundraising from donors, governments, foundations, and businesses, which will open up access to federal Historic Tax Credits.

Once listed as endangered, the Golden Rule building in downtown Belington was purchased and rehabilitated by combining Historic Tax Credits, Low-Income Housing Tax Credits, and local and regional funds. The 1902 building was one of the first retail establishments in town as a grocery and department store, until it was abandoned after the closure of coal mines in the 1970s. The Woodlands Development Group worked in partnership with Vibrant Communities Development Corporation, the Belington Revitalization Committee, and The Barbour County Development Authority to bring the $3.1 million project to fruition. Completed in 2021, the building now features commercial space with an artist market, a ticket booth for a scenic railroad in the town, a small museum, and a community space, plus apartments offering affordable housing.

Established in 1867, the Milwaukee Soldiers Home is one of the earliest branches of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, created by President Abraham Lincoln to care for Union soldiers disabled during the Civil War. In 2010, when efforts began to find a use for six historic buildings on campus, the most prominent building, known as Old Main, had been vacant for 20 years and was in disrepair. In 2021, using the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Enhanced-Use Lease Program, which allows private developers to lease and rehabilitate underutilized VA property for veteran-related purposes, the project rehabilitated six buildings into 101 housing units for veterans and their families who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. This project was made possible by committed Section 106 consultation, sustained public engagement, strong advocacy, and creative public/private partnerships.

The City of Casper, Wyoming, and the Fort Caspar Museum were awarded a Save America’s Treasures grant in 2023 for preservation and rehabilitation work on the site’s historic log buildings, which date to 1865.

Originally built between 1917 and 1919 to produce boilers for Navy ships, the historic Boilermaker Building in Washington, DC’s Navy Yard Annex has been transformed into a vibrant public market as part of The Yards redevelopment. The renovated Boilermaker Building now spans 46,000 square feet over two levels and includes approximately 30,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space. Situated in a rapidly evolving neighborhood, the adaptive reuse project has helped address a local shortage of retail amenities for the growing residential population and has generated significant economic benefits, including more than 214 jobs, $9.4 million in household income, and $1.1 million in local tax revenue.