PAWV is accepting nominations for the 2018 West Virginia Endangered Properties List.  Nomination forms are available here (MSWord). Nominations are due at 5pm on Friday, March 16, 2018, to [email protected]. 

Guidelines for the nomination process include the following:
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Criteria
1)There must be a degree of endangerment from one or more of the following:

• Neglect
• Proposed demolition
• Rezoning or redevelopment
• Other human or environmental factors, such as recent storm, fire, or flood damage

 
2)      The property must be listed in, or be eligible for, the National Register of Historic Places.
•    Properties not listed in the National Register of Historic Places (as either an individual site or a contributing structure in a historic district) must submit a completed Historic Property Inventory Form to the WV State Historic Preservation Office to determine eligibility. The form is available at: http://www.wvculture.org/shpo/forms.html
•    Once the property is deemed eligible for the National Register of Historic Places, please submit both the Historic Property Inventory Form and the documentation of eligibility as part of your Endangered Properties Nomination.
 
3)There must be evidence of significant local support for preservation of the property, including three (3) letters of support.
 
Process

• A separate nomination form must be submitted for each nomination, but organizations or individuals may submit more than one nomination per year.
• Selections will be determined by the Preservation Alliance of West Virginia based on historic, cultural, and/or architectural factors - as well as preservation feasibility, degree of local support, and risk of loss.

 
Timeline
March 16 - Application deadline at 5:00pm to [email protected]
March 23 - If you have not received a confirmation from our office that your application has arrived, call 304-345-6005 to inquire.
March 30 - PAWV Endangered Properties committee meets to review nominations- You may be contacted by PAWV staff to schedule an initial site visit as part of the review process, or to request clarifications or additional materials. Please make sure there is someone at your contact number/email to receive and answer questions or provide materials, if necessary.  
April 27 - Applicants will be notified of their status in regard to the nomination.
May - Special announcement and press conference for the West Virginia Endangered Properties List at a date and location to be determined.

​The West Virginia Endangered Properties List is a collection of historic resources that are in danger of being lost, although they are good re-use candidates for their communities. The goal of this program is to encourage property owners to rehabilitate their properties while preserving our shared heritage.

The alliance revived its endangered list program in 2009 with a competitive nomination process and with technical assistance provided to the stewards of the selected properties. Technical assistance includes on-site visits from experts, guidance in preservation projects and assistance in organizing clean-up days, hands-on workshops, or other skilled preservation activities.

Learn more about the properties that were formerly on the endangered list but have graduated to saved at http://www.pawv.org/endanger/category/status-saved. To talk more about this program, contact Anna Lynn Stasick at [email protected] or by calling 304-685-8119.

The National Park Service's Save America's Treasures (SAT) Grants Program has been funded at a $5 million level for FY2017.  SAT grants provide preservation and/or conservation assistance to nationally significant historic properties and collections. Grants are awarded through a competitive process and require a dollar-for-dollar, non-Federal match, which can be cash or documented in-kind. 

All applications are due through grants.gov on February, 21, 2018.

Visit www.nps.gov/preservation-grants/sat/ for directions on the application procedure, grant amounts, and more information.

From the National Trust for Historic Preservation:

Not only are the Johanna Favrot Fund and the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Fund now offering up to $15,000 in grant funding, but they are also covering brick-and-mortar projects—a unique feature to these two funds within the National Trust Preservation Funds grant program.
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Find out how you can take advantage of these new changes to the grants program to make enhancements within your community. Applications are due March 15.

Which Fund is Right for You?

• The Johanna Favrot Fund aims to save historic environments in order to foster an appreciation of our nation's diverse cultural heritage and to preserve and revitalize the livability of the nation's communities.
• The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Fund assists in the preservation, restoration, and interpretation of historic interiors.​

The Details:

• Funding ranges from $2,500 to $15,000. Dollar-to-dollar matching funds are required.
• Funds are awarded for planning activities, education efforts, and restoration, rehabilitation, and stabilization projects.
• Online applications are due March 15. Grantees will receive notification of their approval in July.
• Forum Organizational members and Main Street members of the National Trust for Historic Preservation are eligible.​​​

Full criteria, eligibility examples and applications can be found at the National Trust for Historic Preservation website  online.

The Randolph County Board of Education voted Tuesday, January 16, 2018, to transfer ownership of Homestead Elementary School, in Dailey, to an area group that plans to utilize the facility as a center for the community.

The Tygart Valley Homestead Association gained ownership of the school and its 17 acre tract following the board’s vote.

Homestead Association president Tom Rennix said the group hopes to have something to offer for everyone.
“We want to have programs there for elderly people, we want to have programs there for school children — even possibly an after school program for kids,” he said.

He added the Preservation Alliance of West Virginia is working to create a questionnaire to release to the public to gather input from residents about what they would like to see happen at Homestead.

Before the board’s vote, members raised a number of questions including the possibility of the gymnasium at the school being utilized and the parking of buses on the property.

“We’ll likely enter into a lease situation with them so that the gym can be used for Tygart Valley Middle School girls basketball as of right now, and if they need it for other children’s programs – not even for sporting events; if they need to possibly make arrangements for other purposes, we can work with them on that,” Rennix said. “Most of the buses are diesel now, so there is an electrical station there where the buses have cables they plug into their engines for heaters. So, we’ll enter into a lease situation with them so they can park their buses there and use the electricity.”

Read the remainder of the story on the Inter-Mountain website at www.theintermountain.com/news/local-news/2018/01/homestead-elementary-transferred-to-local-group/