Special to The American
The City of St. Louis will receive a $10,000 grant through the federal Historic Preservation Fund to develop a nomination to the National Register of Historic Places for contributing resources associated with the history of the Ville, a historic African-American community North St. Louis.
The National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 authorizes a program of federal matching grants, known as the Historic Preservation Fund, to assist states in carrying out historic preservation activities. The program is sponsored by the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service. In Missouri, it is administered through the state Department of Natural Resources’ State Historic Preservation Office.
The grants were awarded based on a competitive scoring process and the direct relation of the projects to the identification, evaluation, or protection of historical, architectural or archaeological resources.