2024 Historic Preservation Tax Credit Deadline is April 1

If your property is located within a Montgomery County historic district or is an inidivudally designated historic site and you made exterior repairs to it in 2024, you may be eligible for a Montgomery County historic preservation tax credit. You can receive a 25 percent credit for exterior improvements, such as repairing your historic windows or siding, painting or replacinbg your roof. APPLY BY TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 2025. Eligible work includes repairs, restoration or rehabilitation of exterior features of county-designated historic structures.

Learn more and apply online at montgomeryplanning.org/historic

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Montgomery Preservation Awards – 2022

The annual Montgomery Preservation Awards for 2022 recognized two projects in Takoma Park. James and Dale Sloan were recognized for the sensitive renovation and enlargement of their early 20th-century bungalow in the Historic District of Takoma Park (on Maple Avenue). The County Executive’s Award went to Historic Takoma’s African-American Oral History Project for its efforts to preserve and share memories of life in the Black community through interviews and production of three videos.

Read more about the 2022 Awards at Montgomery Preservation’s website.

Watch the 2022 awards ceremony, held in October of 2023.

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