Planning for Preservation Project, City of Lisbon, Linn County, Iowa

Tallgrass Historians LC; Rogers, Leah

Abstract: "The Planning for Preservation program is specifically geared to assist recently certified or inactive commissions in receiving basic training and guidance in preservation planning, survey, and inventory development as well as experience in project development, management, and completion. Such projects also introduce HPCs to working with a professional historic preservation consultant. By design, Planning for Preservation projects are limited in both scope and budget; therefore, these types of projects do not include a survey component, although a windshield survey assessment is often conducted as part of the planning project. The Lisbon Planning for Preservation project provided broad historic preservation training to the Lisbon Historic Preservation Commission, with additional objectives including public education, providing a better understanding of the Commission’s role within the community and its role in historic preservation activities in Lisbon, and providing information on different preservation activities including reconnaissance and intensive level survey, property evaluation, inventory development, and local and federal registration of historic properties. The project also included a reconnaissance level “windshield”-type survey of Lisbon to pinpoint potential historic properties and possible historic districts for future planning purposes but did not involve the inventory of any properties." Project funding was provided in part by a 2006 Historic Preservation Fund grant to the City of Lisbon (project number IA-06-002) administered by the Iowa State Historic Preservation Office (grant number 19-06-21518) and the State, Tribal, and Local Plans and Grants Division, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. Lisbon, Iowa is a Certified Local Government.

Planning for Preservation Project, City of Lisbon, Linn County, Iowa

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