Types of Funded Projects

Certified Local Government (CLG) grants are awarded annually on a competitive basis. All grants must be matched with local funds or donations and are available on a reimbursement basis only. Grant activities can include:

• Conducting a survey of historic resources;
• Preparing nominations to the National Register of Historic Places for buildings, sites, structures, objects and districts in the community;
• Developing design guidelines for local historic districts;
• Administering a local historic district ordinance;
• Preparing a local preservation plan for managing historic resources;
• Planning for the protection or the restoration of national register sites;
• Preparing a feasibility study for restoration of a historic structure;
• Restoration of national register-listed properties; or
• Educating the community on historic preservation through the publication of brochures, a speaker's bureau, or the development of a website.

Project activities must have measurable results. The State Historic Preservation Office welcomes innovative proposals that promote historic preservation. The intent of the CLG grant program is to augment rather than replace existing local financial commitment to historic preservation activities.

Grants are announced each May.  For more information on CLG funding, visit our grant manuals webpage.

For information about any of the programs described on this site, write the Michigan State Historic Preservation Office, 702 W. Kalamazoo St., P.O. Box 30740, Lansing, MI 48909-8240, or contact us at (517) 373-1630 or preservation@michigan.gov.

State Historic Preservation Office, Michigan State Housing Development Authority
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