Rus sends in this article from the Dalton Daily Citizen…

ATLANTA – Twelve Georgia communities will be receiving a federally funded grant to conduct historic preservation projects to begin in May 2008 and be completed by August 15, 2009. A total of $75,315.60 in grants from the FFY2008 Historic Preservation Fund was awarded this year.

The recipients are as follows:

City of Decatur–$3,000 to conduct an old house fair and workshop. 

I’m pretty sure this is a matching fund, meaning the city will have to shell out $3,000 as well to take advantage of it.

And $3,000 certainly isn’t much, but Federal Historic Preservation $ has been getting slashed for years.  For example, as recently as 2004, GA received $653,497.  Compare that to the $75k in 2008 and you see that its been a pretty drastic shift in policy.

But any money is better than no money, and perhaps it will expose a few new folks in our city to some of the basics regarding their historic homes.

Chief among them: Restore, Don’t Replace.

If you’re working on a big restoration project regarding a commercial building or B&B, doing so might just qualify you for a 20% tax credit.