Since 1973, the Loudoun Preservation Society (LPS) has awarded over $890,000 in grants to county organizations for preservation and restoration projects.
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News & Events Updates
2024 Preservationist of the Year Award
Jeffrey Jackson was awarded the 2024 Preservationist of the Year Award for his life-long dedication to historic preservation and his on-going work with the Friends of Grace Multicultural Center restoring the Grace Church in Lincoln, Virginia.Read More »Announcing 2024 Preservation Grant Award Recipients
2024 LPS Pump Priming Preservation Grants AMERICA’S ROUTES works to promote citizen valuing and consequent preservation of Loudoun’s rural and dirt road network. This pump-priming preservation grant is to assist with website redesign and mission refresh working with a mission and messaging expert. The grant will partially pay for …Read More »
Washington Post Article: A Radical Plan to Save a Rural Oasis. Don’t Pave the Roads!
Washington Post, February 7, 2024 By Justin Jouvenal, Bonnie Jo Mount and Jayne Orenstein An unorthodox bid to preserve one of the last bastions of country life in the D.C. area is dividing residents. Some say protecting Loudoun’s gravel roads will ensure that its rustic soul and charm survive a …Read More »
Announcing the 2023 Preservation Grant Award Recipients
HISTORIC PRESERVATION GRANTS TO BE AWARDED BY LOUDOUN PRESERVATION SOCIETY SEPTEMBER 21st. Six 2023 historic preservation grants will be awarded on September 21st at the Annual Loudoun Preservation Society Grant Awards working in partnership with the County of Loudoun and the Towns of Leesburg, Middleburg, and Purcellville to celebrate Historic …Read More »
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In 2015 the Society awarded Thomas Balch Library a three thousand dollar ($3,000) grant for preserving VHS files containing interviews, local television footage, and documentaries of events related to Loudoun County. The Library Director wrote, “This generous grant … will enable us to preserve and make available to the public content of historically significant VHS recordings by digitizing them. It adds to an important new dimension in our efforts to preserve for posterity the life, history and culture of Loudoun County.”
