Aug. 2

Sanford Museum & Planetarium

117 East Willow Street

Cherokee, Iowa

Your community is filled with wonderful historic properties—the buildings, structures, and sites that illustrate how your Iowa place developed and changed over time. Want to learn how those special places can be identified, preserved, and protected? This is the workshop that will get you started.

Registration required. All-day workshop. Fee charged.

Thursday, August 2, 2012

9:00 AM Registration

9:30 AM Welcome & Introduction to Historic Preservation Programs

9:45 AM Certified Local Government Program
Paula Mohr, Architectural Historian and CLG Coordinator, State Historical Society of Iowa

10:30 AM The Iowa Site Inventory
Ralph Christian, Historian, State Historical Society of Iowa

11:15 AM Break

11:30 AM Historic Preservation Planning
Paula Mohr, Architectural Historian and CLG Coordinator, State Historical Society of Iowa; and Kathy Gourley, Historic Preservation Education & Outreach Manager, State Historical Society of Iowa

12:15 PM Lunch (on your own—a list of restaurants will be available at the workshop)

1:30 PM Advocacy—Working to Protect Historic Resources
Paula Mohr, Architectural Historian and CLG Coordinator, State Historical Society of Iowa

2:15 PM Care and Feeding of Your Historic Property
Ralph Christian, Historian, State Historical Society of Iowa

3:00 PM Break

3:15 PM Financial Incentives for Historic Preservation
Kathy Gourley, Historic Preservation Education & Outreach Manager, State Historical Society of Iowa

4:00 PM Questions and Answers

4:15 PM Adjourn Day 1

Sponsor: State Historic Preservation Office and the Cherokee Historic Preservation Commission

Contact: Kathy Gourley kathy.gourley@iowa.gov (515) 281-3989

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