The Havre de Grace Colored School Foundation is stewarding the structure and stories of the Havre de Grace Colored School and working to create new museum and cultural center. The Heritage Fund supported the organization's efforts to gather important first-hand oral...
Funding
Six-to-Fix Update: Video Sneak Peak of Reimagined Historic City Dock in Annapolis
With support and advocacy from an array of national, state, and local partners, including Preservation Maryland, the City Dock Advocacy Committee has worked steadily on crafting a sustainable and vibrant reimagining of Annapolis' historic downtown waterfront. In 2018,...
Top 11 Preservation Victories of 2019
In 2019, Preservation Maryland achieved several important victories across our major programs, including advocacy, grantmaking, smart growth, historic trades, and all of our research and education efforts. At any one-time, our staff is working on many active and...
Heritage Fund Supports Seven New Preservation Projects
Preservation Maryland and the Maryland Historical Trust are pleased to announce the newest grantees of the Heritage Fund grant program. The Heritage Fund is one of few stable sources of preservation funding in Maryland and has provided over $1.4 million dollars in...
Heritage Fund Highlight: New Visitor Service Plan for the Newcomer House at Antietam Battlefield
The Heart of the Civil War Heritage Area received a Heritage Fund grant to craft a visitor experience plan for the historic Newcomer House on Antietam Battlefield. The historic 18th-century home served as a makeshift hospital during the battle and is now a visitor...
Heritage Fund Highlight: Historic Swains Lockhouse Reopens along C&O Canal
Earlier this summer, the C&O Canal Trust reopened the historic Swains Lockhouse after a three-year rehabilitation project supported in part by the Heritage Fund grant program. The Lockhouse dates to ca. 1916 and now open to the public as part of their very popular...
New Resource: UMD Class Releases Toolkit for LGBTQ History in Baltimore City
Over the course of a studio semester, students from the University of Maryland College Park have created a new public toolkit for documentation LGBTQ history in Baltimore City with a specific focus on Mount Vernon, Abell, Waverly, and Greater Waverly. The authors of...
Heritage Fund Highlight: Cambridge Community Radio’s Vintage Studio
Cambridge Community Radio in Dorchester County used a Heritage Fund grant to transform a vintage ca. 1930 storefront restaurant into a music venue and radio studio as a new home for their all-volunteer, local radio station. Cambridge Community Radio, WHCP 101.5, is a...
Financing Available for Preservation & Infill Projects
Preservation Maryland has partnered with a national leader in energy conservation and efficiency financing to help provide flexible funding for preservation and infill projects throughout the state and beyond. The financing is known as C-PACE (Commercial Property...
Heritage Fund Highland: Baltimore Sights and Sounds via the Mid-Atlantic Regional Moving Image Archive
The Heritage Fund has recently supported a very unique expression and resource of Baltimore history through the digitization and publishing of the WJZ-TV video collection by the Mid-Atlantic Regional Moving Image Archive and Baltimore Heritage, Inc....
Heritage Fund Highlight: Downtown Frederick Preservation Education Toolkit
In spring 2018, Preservation Maryland's Heritage Grant Fund provided a $5,000 grant to the Downtown Frederick Partnership to support the creation of a preservation education toolkit. Specifically, the $5,000 grant supported the creation of an Education Tool Kit...
Heritage Fund Highlight: New Exhibits for the Frederick Douglass Museum and Cultural Center in Highland Beach
The Town of Highland Beach, founded by Charles Douglass as a waterfront enclave for African Americans, utilized a Heritage Fund grant to create two multi-media exhibits about the history of their community and the bicentennial of Frederick Douglass’ birthday. Charles...
Heritage Fund Program Awards over $50,000 to Array of Preservation Projects
The Heritage Fund grant program is a cooperative effort of Preservation Maryland and the Maryland Historical Trust. An important source of direct financial support for preservation projects since 1997, we're pleased to announce grants totaling over $50,000 to the...
Preservation Trades Network will Host Hands-On Conference in Maryland
Preservation Trades Network will host their annual International Preservation Trades Workshop in partnership with the National Park Service Historic Preservation Training Center in Frederick, Maryland this year at the end of October. This annual hands-on conference...
Heritage Fund Highlight: Roof Repairs at the Friend Family Association
The Town of Friendsville in Garrett County, Maryland was a recipient of a Heritage Fund grant to repair and replace the roof at the ca. 1900 headquarters of the Family Friend Association, an international genealogical resource to the Friendsville community and the...
Public Call for Information about Historic Bayly Family in Dorchester County
The Heart of the Chesapeake Heritage Area is coordinating a crowdsourcing effort to identify and contact descendants of the Bayly family and descendants of those enslaved on the Bayly property. MORE FROM THE HERITAGE AREA Historians are requesting assistance from the...
Heritage Fund Highlight: Historic Sign Recreation at Sis’s Tavern
North Brentwood was the first African American town to become part of Prince George's County when it was incorporated in 1924. Over time and out of necessity, this historic enclave has been home and host to famous citizens, athletes, and musicians — like Sis's Tavern...
Video: Brief History of the Movies in Maryland
The Old Greenbelt Theatre is using a Heritage Fund grant to create a docuseries on interesting aspects of Maryland history that run before shows at the historic National Historical Landmark theatre in Prince George's County. A HISTORY OF MOVIEGOING IN MARYLAND For...
Heritage Fund Highlight: Skipjack Wilma Lee Arrives in Annapolis
After a positive conditions assessment support by the Heritage Fund, the historic Skipjack Wilma Lee was transported from North Carolina to it's new — and rightful — home back in Maryland at the Annapolis Maritime Museum. On Tuesday, June 19, 2018, the Wilma Lee...
Heritage Fund Highlight: Tobacco Barn Restoration at the National Colonial Farm
The National Colonial Farm in Southern Maryland is a living history museum that interpret Colonial-era farm life including a tobacco barn dating from the 18th century. The Accokeek Foundation utilized a Heritage Fund grant to repair and maintain the barn as an...
Heritage Fund Highlight: Main Street Middletown to Purchase Two Main Street Buildings
Main Street Middletown will use a Heritage Fund grant from Preservation Maryland and the Maryland Historical Trust in support of their efforts to purchase and protect two historic buildings in the Middletown Historic District in Frederick County. On May 4, 2018, Becky...
Best of Maryland: Church Hill Theatre on the Eastern Shore
The vernacular Art Deco architecture of the Church Hill Theatre in rural Queen Anne’s County is a rare site – and its home to a local performing theatre company that also well cares for their historic theatre. Preservation Maryland will recognize Church Hill Theatre...
Preservation Maryland & Maryland Historical Trust Provide $10,000 Grant to Main Street Middletown
May is Preservation Month and to help kick off the celebration, Preservation Maryland and the Maryland Historical Trust will present a ceremonial check for $10,000 to Main Street Middletown on Thursday, May 3rd in support of their efforts to purchase two distinctive...
Heritage Fund Highlight: Chimney Repair at Steppingstone Farm Museum
Last winter, one of the historic chimneys at Steppingstone Farm Museum in Susquehanna State Park collapsed due to wind and weather. Preservation Maryland issued an emergency Heritage Fund grant to address the immediate need. Steppingstone Farm Museum is a collection...
Heritage Fund Highlight: Roof Repairs at St. Thomas Episcopal Church
St. Thomas's Episcopal Church's Chapel of the Incarnation is a very unique example of Mission-style church architecture in Maryland. It was built in 1916 by designer William J. Palmer for the Episcopal Diocese of Washington. With a Heritage Fund grant, the Church was...
Heritage Fund Highlight: Video Series on Anne Arundel County Archaeology
Anne Arundel County has a very active archaeology program and community working to unearth important and forgotten history. The Lost Towns Project received a Heritage Fund grant to help share their work in two short documentary-style videos. Award-Winning Project: The...
Heritage Fund Grants Awarded to Ten More Deserving and Unique Projects
Since 1997, the Heritage Fund grant program has distributed over a million dollars in direct support for historic preservation projects in Maryland! This November, the selection committee awarded nearly $150,000 to ten deserving and unique projects across the state....
Heritage Fund Highlight: Historic Aircraft Restored to Original Appearance
The Glenn L. Martin Maryland Aviation Museum in Baltimore County recently utilized a Heritage Fund grant and over 600 volunteer hours to repaint a Martin RB-57A Canberra airplane to it's original 1950s color scheme as part of it's airfield fleet. The Glenn L. Martin...
Video: Ellicott City the Focus of Maryland Public Television Documentary
A new documentary produced by Maryland Public Television, Ellicott City Rising, will premiere on Saturday, November 4, 2017. With graphic video and photographs the new documentary explores the impacts of the disastrous flood and its aftermath. Victims and first...
Heritage Fund Highlight: Anne Arundel County Archaeology Video Series
One-third of archaeological sites in Anne Arundel County are threatened by weather and other natural hazards. The Lost Towns Projects used a recent Heritage Fund grant to get the word out through a series of public videos, called "A Race Against Time: Maryland...
Events
Preservation Maryland participates in and hosts many events in and around Maryland. Take a look at our upcoming events to see where we’ll be next.