New Jersey Historic Trust Announces Recommended List for 2008 Historic Preservation Grants
Recommended Sites Will Go to Legislature For Approval


TRENTON - The New Jersey Historic Trust today announced its recommended list for 2008 Historic Preservation Grants. The list of recommended sites will go before the Garden State Preservation Trust on March 11th for ratification and then move on to the Legislature for approval. 60 projects at historic sites were selected and would receive a total of over $15.5 million in funding.

"The Historic Trust continues to make great strides in preserving New Jersey's culture and historic sites," said Department of Community Affairs (DCA) Commissioner Joseph Doria. "This is indicative of Governor Corzine's efforts to revitalize our state's economy. Not only will this action preserve these sites, but it will help spur economic growth by attracting tourism to these areas."

The New Jersey Historic Trust, a DCA affiliate, administers the grants from the Garden State Historic Preservation Trust Fund. The Trust Fund was created to promote historic preservation and encourage joint preservation efforts by the public and private sectors. It funds both capital projects and planning projects for historic preservation across the state.

This 2008 Historic Preservation Grant Round is devoted to Historic Sites Management Grants and Capital Preservation Grants. Historic Site Management Grants support non-construction activities such as conditions assessments, preservation plans, engineering reports, construction documents, landscape reports, archaeological assessments associated with historic site rehabilitation, green building retrofit analysis, and heritage tourism initiatives. Capital Preservation Grants support 'bricks and mortar' repair, restoration and rehabilitation of historic resources for continued active use. The maximum award is $50,000 for planning and $750,000 for capital construction. Special initiatives this year highlighted urban resources, heritage tourism, and projects not previously funded.

If these recommended projects are approved by the Garden State Preservation Trust and the Legislature, it will mean that the Trust has awarded more than $123 million in matching grants to 601 preservation projects through the Garden State Historic Preservation Trust Fund and the Historic Preservation Bond Program since 1990. This is the eighth round of funding from the Garden State Preservation Trust, which was established by a voter-approved ballot initiative to preserve open space, farmland and historic sites.

Established in 1967, the New Jersey Historic Trust is the only nonprofit historic preservation organization in New Jersey created by state law. The Trust officially became a DCA affiliate in November 2002, in an effort to better realign the state's smart growth initiatives with historic revitalization. Its mission is to advance historic preservation in New Jersey for the benefit of future generations through education, stewardship and financial investment programs that save our heritage and strengthen our communities.

For more information on the New Jersey Historic Trust, call 609-984-0473, or log on to http://www.njht.org/.

Garden State Historic Preservation Trust Fund 2008 Recommended Grant Projects

Recommended Site

Muni.

County

Recommended Award

St. Stephen's Episcopal Church

Beverly

Burlington

$289,945

Burlington County Historical Society

Burlington

Burlington

$50,000

Battleship New Jersey

Camden

Camden

$100,000

Church of Our Savior, Camden

Camden

Camden

$750,000

Bivalve Shipping Sheds & Wharves

Commercial

Cumberland

$750,000

Edgewater Borough Hall

Edgewater

Bergen

$406,000

First Presbyterian Church

Elizabeth

Union

$290,202

Trenton Bath House and Day Camp

Ewing

Mercer

$750,000

Fleming Castle

Flemington

Hunterdon

$49,650

Glen Ridge Municipal Building/Library

Glen Ridge

Essex

$664,200

First Baptist Church of Haddonfield

Haddonfield

Camden

$24,682

Hoboken Public Library

Hoboken

Hudson

$750,000

Henry Phillips House

Hopewell

Mercer

$360,830

Ellis Island Recreation Building

Jersey City

Hudson

$50,000

Ellis Island Hospital Building

Jersey City

Hudson

$162,325

St. Andrew's Amwell

Lambertville

Hunterdon

$29,962

Parker Homestead

Little Silver

Monmouth

$44,625

Church of the Presidents

Long Branch

Monmouth

$467,296

Millington Schoolhouse #74/Old Town Hall

Long Hill

Morris

$27,147

The Darlington Schoolhouse/Havemeyer Hall

Mahwah

Bergen

$750,000

The Presbyterian Church

Mays Landing

Atlantic

$12,724

The Preparative Meeting of Friends of Medford

Medford

Burlington

$50,000

Medford Preparatory Friends Meeting

Medford

Burlington

$99,942

1857 Millville Bank

Millville

Cumberland

$29,767

Willow Hall

Morristown

Morris

$37,322

Revolutionary NJ Discovery Centers

Multiple

Multiple

$50,000

James and Ann Whitall House

National Park

Gloucester

$47,625

Dutch Reformed Church

New Brunswick

Middlesex

$487,797

Christ Episcopal Church

New Brunswick

Middlesex

$412,408

Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company

Newark

Essex

$255,000

Ballentine Carriage House

Newark

Essex

$588,092

Van Allen House & Vygeborg Farm Office Bldg.

Oakland

Bergen

$40,000

New Milford Plant/Hackensack Water Co.

Oradell

Bergen

$750,000

Orange City Hall

Orange

Essex

$140,500

Episcopal Church of the Epiphany

Orange

Essex

$250,065

Second Presbyterian Church, Oxford

Oxford

Warren

$16,310

S.U.M. Great Falls Power Plant

Paterson

Passaic

$180,000

Rogers Locomotive Works Storage Building

Paterson

Passaic

$750,000

Alliance Heritage Center

Pittsgrove

Salem

$50,000

Moshe Bayuk House

Pittsgrove

Salem

$406,744

All Souls Church

Plainfield

Union

$446,369

Port Colden Methodist Episcopal Church

Port Colden

Warren

$186,000

Thomas Clarke House

Princeton

Mercer

$25,000

General John Frelinghuysen House

Raritan

Somerset

$264,075

Anthony Reckless Estate

Red Bank

Monmouth

$29,308

Roebling Company Kinkora Works

Roebling

Burlington

$50,000

Salem County Courthouse

Salem

Salem

$250,000

Bevans

Sandyston

Sussex

$33,000

Princeton Nurseries, Kingston Site

South Brunswick

Middlesex

$290,000

Bishop-Irick Farmstead

Southampton

Burlington

$9,092

Spring Lake First Aid & Emerg. Squad Bldg.

Spring Lake

Monmouth

$526,950

District No. 98 Schoolhouse

Stockton

Hunterdon

$219,769

The Clearing

Summit

Union

$47,500

Douglass House and Jackson Street Bridge

Trenton

Mercer

$534,901

Port Colden Schoolhouse

Washington

Warren

$273,800

Dey Mansion

Wayne

Passaic

$619,737

Belcoville Post Office

Weymouth

Atlantic

$15,000

Morris Canal Lock 2 East

Wharton

Morris

$50,000

Trinity Episcopal Church

Woodbridge

Middlesex

$253,540

Mt. Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church

Woolwich

Gloucester

$12,000