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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 January 7th for the January 28th meeting.
  • The Falkland Apartments (1936-38) are the subject of an Amendment to the Master Plan for Historic Preservation. The Planning Board evaluated this resource on September 4, 2008 following a July 10 public hearing. The Planning Board’s recommendation was transmitted to the County Executive and County Council on November 26, 2008.
  • The current issue of our newsletter, The Preservationist, is now available.
  • Gwen Marcus Wright was the Supervisor of the Historic Preservation section of the Montgomery County Department of Planning, from 1987 to 2006. 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 to submit a 2008 Montgomery County Historic Preservation Tax Credit application is April 1, 2009. Forms for 2008 applications are available.
  • 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.
  • Historic preservation design guidelines are now available to assist owners of historic properties in the development of their project plans.
  • Wild Acres (Grosvenor Estate), 5400 Grosvenor Lane, Bethesda (#30/15), is the subject of an Amendment to the Master Plan for Historic Preservation. The Planning Board evaluated this resource and recommends in favor of desgnation. This recommendation was transmitted to the County Executive and County Council on September 12, 2008.

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Date of last update: August 5, 2008

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