Online map of National Register-listed properties gets a makeover
Upgrades to the Cultural and Historical Resources Information System (CHRIS) restore access to historic property information and feature new map layers.
Planning So Our Historic Places Have a Future
By Alice Guerrant It’s important every so often to step back and evaluate what you’ve done so that you can see if you need to change something. Every five years, the State Historic Preservation Office leads the effort to produce a new statewide historic preservation plan. This is our chance as historic preservationists to ask […]
Preservation Planning 2012: Update from Public Meetings
By Alice Guerrant, Historic Archaeologist Our efforts to update the historic preservation plan are moving steadily forward. The Division has held public meetings across the state to hear from our citizens about the problems and issues that most concern them. Over 70 people attended these meetings and we heard a wide range of issues and […]
Save the date!—historic preservation symposium on June 26, 2019
Day-long activities to be held at the Delaware Public Archives in Dover.
Site of purported African-American cemetery discovered near Frankford
Development slated for nearby property.
Small Grants available from Delaware Preservation Fund
Program supports preservation activities at historic properties and districts. Deadline: Dec. 16, 2016.
St. Paul AME Church in Harrington added to the National Register of Historic Places
Church has served Harrington’s Black community since 1895.
State fiscal year 2017 review: Delaware properties listed in the National Register of Historic Places
By Madeline Dunn, Delaware Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs’ historian and National Register of Historic Places coordinator
State Review Board for Historic Preservation recommends nominations for the National Register; honors retirees and welcomes new members
The Delaware State Review Board for Historic Preservation held its annual spring meeting at The Old State House in Dover on April 9, 2014.
Successful National Register research workshop held on July 26, 2017
Workshop designed to increase support for historic preservation, and to provide historical-research training for property owners
Theme of 2016 Dover Days Festival is historic preservation
Division will be offering several programs including those celebrating the 1976 restoration of The Old State House.
Two additional Delaware properties listed in the National Register of Historic Places
St. Stephen’s Protestant Episcopal Church in Harrington and the Union Wesley Methodist Episcopal Church Complex in Clarksville are the most recent listings.