The Center is a design advocate that strives to raise the bar of preservation design and planning. The Center helps communities preserve their sense of place by developing design and rehabilitation plans that conscientiously manage the way their buildings are repaired, restored and rehabilitated. Plans also help building owners change a historic resource to fit their needs while fitting in with the surrounding historic context. Preservation planning and design assistance provided by the Center helps communities plan a course of action that preserves their built environment, increases heritage tourism and revitalizes key historic resources.
The following is a small sampling of the Center's current design-related projects.
Noblesville, IN – Façade Rehabilitation Renderings, Design Guidelines, and Façade Grant Manual
The Center for Historic Preservation is currently completing several design-related projects for the City of Noblesville. The Center researched successful façade grant programs in Indiana and across the nation, and used the best practice information to help the City develop three different grant programs for historic commercial buildings in the downtown. The grants will help improve the overall design of the downtown's historic resources. The Center also prepared an accompanying user-friendly grant manual to be used by building owners applying for the grants. In a second project, the Center is helping the City to develop design guidelines for the downtown's historic resources and completed several façade rehabilitation drawings for owners of historic commercial buildings.
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