The National Park Service has awarded the D.C. government funding for the historic preservation of Black neighborhoods.
The Park Service announced the $72,000 underrepresented communities grant to the D.C. Office of Planning in a news release late last week. The grant will fund historic surveying, multiple property documentation, and “National Register Nominations for Historically Black Neighborhoods in Washington, D.C.”
The D.C. Office of Planning did not respond to a request for comment.
The award is among 16 other projects across 15 states, totaling nearly $1.18 million. The grants are issued through the Historic Preservation Fund to help states, tribes, local governments and nonprofits expand listings in the National Register of Historic Places.
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To qualify for the grant, the project must result in a new nomination to the national historic place registry or amend an existing registered historic place nomination to include underrepresented communities.
Other projects included $100,000 sent to the state of Maryland to nominate and survey Black churches and cemeteries in Baltimore for historic place listings.
Last year, the D.C. Preservation League earned a $75,000 underappreciated community grant for multiple property documentation and “National Register Nominations of Washington, D.C. LGBTQ+ Resources,” but the Trump administration stripped that funding after reallocating historic preservation funds away from LGBTQ projects, the Washington Blade reported.
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