Advisory Council on Historic Preservation

The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) are now accepting nominations for the 2024 ACHP/HUD Secretary’s Award for Excellence in Historic Preservation. This joint award honors outstanding projects that have advanced the goals of historic preservation while promoting affordable housing, community revitalization, and/or enhanced economic opportunities for low- and moderate-income families. In addition, nominated projects or activities will be judged for the success they have achieved in preserving, rehabilitating, restoring, and interpreting our architectural and cultural heritage.

Last week, ACHP Office of Tribal and Indigenous Peoples Director Ira L. Matt (on detail to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy) participated in the 2023 White House Tribal Nations Summit (Summit) at the Department of the Interior in Washington, D.C. The Summit provided the President and members of his Cabinet the opportunity to engage and consult with Tribal leaders on a nation-to-nation basis.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) Chair Sara C. Bronin, ACHP Indian Tribe Member Reno Keoni Franklin (Chairman, Kashia Band of Pomo Indians), and representatives of three ACHP members will speak before Members of Congress 10 a.m. November 29 at a Historic and Cultural Preservation Roundtable in Washington, D.C. The gathering is being convened by Representative Raúl M. Grijalva of Arizona, House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member. 

Members of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation met November 15 in Washington, D.C., for their fall business meeting. The proceedings were broadcast on Facebook Live and are available on the ACHP’s YouTube channel here.

WASHINGTON, D.C.– The Oregon Chinese Diaspora Project (OCDP) was honored today with the National Trust/Advisory Council on Historic Preservation Award for Federal Partnerships in Historic Preservation during the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s annual PastForward Conference. The OCDP is a multi-agency collaboration that aims to promote research and education on Oregon’s early Chinese residents.