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The U.S. National Park Service (NPS) last week announced $1.25 million in grants to help memorialize the histories of underrepresented communities nationwide. The state Department of Archaeology and Historic Preservation (DAHP) was awarded $75,000 for “survey and development of an LGBTQIA2S+ Historic Context in the Puget Sound, and the National Register of Historic Places nomination of an outstanding representation of queer history in Washington state.”
The project will complement DAHP's review of historical LGBTQ+ sites in Seattle. This initial work was done in collaboration with the state’s LGBTQ Commission.
The project also furthers DAHP’s longstanding efforts to paint a full picture of the state’s history with deliberate focus on underrepresented communities. In 2022, DAHP was awarded $100,000 by NPS for a campaign to map historic places for Washington’s Black and Chinese American communities. Previous grants have furthered research of historic sites in local Latino, Filipino, and Black cultures.
"The Department of Archaeology and Historic Preservation has been fortunate to receive funding from the National Park Service to identify and honor historic places in Washington that represent the stories of diverse and marginalized communities,” said DAHP director Allyson Brooks. “Over the last decade, our work with these groups has created strong partnerships. Together we’ve been able to highlight the previously untold histories of so many important places.”
News Release Date: February 8, 2024
Contact: [email protected]
WASHINGTON –The National Park Service today announced $1,250,000 to 21 projects in 19 states and the District of Columbia for the survey and nomination of sites and districts associated with communities that are underrepresented in the National Register of Historic Places.
“The National Register is the official list of our Nation’s historic places that are worthy of preservation,” NPS Director Chuck Sams said. “The National Park Service is proud to work with our Tribal, State, and local partners through the Underrepresented Communities grant program to ensure that the National Register better reflects the important places and significant stories of all Americans.”
This years’ grants include:
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A migrant farm worker historic context study and National Register nomination in Miami-Dade County, Florida.
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An amendment to the Whitney Plantation Historic District’s National Register nomination in Wallace, Louisiana to rectify the exclusion of African Americans and the site’s role in the history of slavery. More than 350 people were enslaved at the plantation in the 18th and 19th centuries. The updated National Register listing will more thoroughly document this nationally significant site’s history through slavery, reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the Civil Rights era.
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A survey and National Register nomination for the Annie (Nicolai) Wickersham homesite by the Chickaloon Native Village in Alaska, significant for its association with the Dene experience during the first decades of direct Euro-American contact, as well the Prohibition Era experience of the Dene.
The Underrepresented Communities grant program began in 2014 and has provided $7 million to State and Tribal Historic Preservation Offices and Certified Local Governments to work towards diversifying the National Register of Historic Places through surveys and nominations.
For more information about the Underrepresented Communities grant program, please visit http://go.nps.gov/urc.
Underrepresented Communities Grant Awards
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State
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Project Title
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Organization
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Funded Amount
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Alaska
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Survey and National Register Nomination of the Annie (Nicolai) Wickersham Homesite
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Chickaloon Native Village
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$74,454
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Alabama
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Survey and National Register Nomination for the Titusville Community
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City of Birmingham
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$75,000
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Arkansas
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National Register Nomination for Dunbar Junior and Senior High and Junior College in Little Rock
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City of Little Rock
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$17,700
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Colorado
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Intensive Survey and National Register Nomination of LGBTQ+ Sites in Colorado
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State Historical Society of Colorado dba History Colorado
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$58,798
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District of Columbia
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Multiple Property Document and Nominations of Significant Sites Designed by Black Architects in Washington, DC
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DC Preservation League
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$75,000
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Florida
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Migrant Farmworker Historic Context Study and Nomination
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Miami-Dade County
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$75,000
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Indiana
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Survey, Documentation and Multiple Property Document for Indiana's Green Book Sites
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State of Indiana
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$75,000
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Louisiana
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Updated National Register Nomination for Whitney Plantation Historic District to include African American History
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The Whitney Institute
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$70,400
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Massachusetts
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Provincetown Historic District National Register Nomination Amendment to add Social History: LGBT
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Provincetown Community Compact
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$49,999
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Michigan
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Auburn Hills National Register Nomination
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City of Grand Rapids
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$60,000
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Minnesota
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Minneapolis African American Historic and Cultural Context Study and Nomination
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City of Minneapolis
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$75,000
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Missouri
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Kansas City African American Heritage National Register Multiple Property Submission
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City of Kansas City
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$75,000
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North Carolina
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National Register Nominations for McCrorey Heights and Oaklawn Park: African American Civil Rights Leadership
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City of Charlotte
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$21,500
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North Carolina
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Lincoln Park Neighborhood National Register Nomination
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City of Lexington
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$26,000
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Nebraska
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Women in the Trades Context Study and National Register Nomination
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City of Lincoln
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$73,000
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Nevada
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Northeast Reno African American Historic Resource Survey and National Register Nomination
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City of Reno
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$55,000
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New York
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National Register of Historic Places Amendment for Hotel Chelsea to add Social History: LGBT
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Fund for the City of New York, Inc.
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$25,000
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Ohio
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National Register Recognition for Cleveland's Historic Black Churches
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Cleveland Restoration Society, Inc.
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$52,149
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Rhode Island
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African American Civil Rights in Rhode Island: Phase Three
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Historical Preservation & Heritage Commission of Rhode Island
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$66,000
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Virginia
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African American Schools in Virginia Multiple Property Document and National Register Nomination
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Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Historic Resources
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$75,000
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Washington
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LGBTQIA2S+ Historic Context and National Register Nomination in the Puget Sound
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Washington State Department of Archaeology and Historic Preservation
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$75,000
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19 States and
Washington DC
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21 Total Projects
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Total Funded
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$1,250,000
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The Underrepresented Communities grant program is one element of the Historic Preservation Fund. The HPF uses revenue from federal oil and gas leases on the Outer Continental Shelf to assist with a broad range of preservation projects without expending tax dollars, with the intent to mitigate the loss of a nonrenewable resource to benefit the preservation of other irreplaceable resources.
Established in 1977, the HPF is authorized at $150 million per year through 2023 and has provided more than $2 billion in historic preservation grants to states, Tribes, local governments, and nonprofit organizations. Administered by the NPS, HPF funds may be appropriated by Congress to support a variety of historic preservation projects to help preserve the nation’s diverse cultural resources.
For more information about NPS historic preservation programs and grants, please visit go.nps.gov/grants.
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