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Historical Building The Historic Preservation Office provides for the identification, designation, and regulation of historic sites in Montgomery County. Our staff supports the Planning Board and the Historic Preservation Commission. We evaluate resources currently or potentially listed on the Locational Atlas and Index of Historic Sites for possible inclusion in the Master Plan for Historic Preservation. We analyze Historic Area Work Permit applications and evaluate proposed development plans to assess the impact on historic resources. In addition, we review Montgomery County historic preservation tax credit applications, administer the Historic Preservation Commission Grant Fund and educate the public. Learn more.

News

  • The Historic Preservation Commission meeting schedule and agenda can be found here. The next deadline for Historic Area Work Permit application submissions is May 21st for the June 11th meeting.
  • The Montgomery County Cemetery Inventory, an ongoing project of Peerless Rockville, Historic Takoma, Inc., and the Coalition to Protect Maryland Burial Sites, is now available online. Supported with a grant from the Montgomery County Historic Preservation Commission, the project creates a baseline of information to guide the protection of our historic cemeteries.
  • The current issue of our newsletter, The Preservationist, is now available.
  • Gwen Marcus Wright is the former coordinator of the Historic Preservation section of the Montgomery County Department of Planning, and is now Chief of Countywide Planning. She was interviewed last year by Historic Preservation Commissioner David Rotenstein and a synopsis of that interview was featured in the Winter 2008 Preservationist newsletter. Click here to see the entire transcript of that interview, now available.
  • The deadline for 2007 tax credit applications has passed. The deadline for 2008 tax credits applications is April 1st 2009. All applicants will receive confirmation in the mail. Please be patient as this process will take a few weeks.
  • Some of our Park historic sites were featured in the Washington Post weekly column “Road Trip” which is in the “Sunday Source” section. The Road Trip is about the Underground railroad in Montgomery County, slavery and Quakers. Of the Park sites the article features Oakley Cabin, Woodlawn Manor, and the Underground Railroad Experience Trail. www.washingtonpost.com/roadtrip

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