I posted this a while back, but it’s so good we decided to make it our Picture of the Day
Virginia Tax Credit Summit
Why Should You Attend: A strong historic preservation community is vital to Virginia’s future. Our discussion will have three parts:
Promoting Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credits-Hear from John Leith-Tetrault, President, National Trust Community Investment Corporation how you can help convey to decision makers the important role Federal and State historic rehabilitation tax credits play in creating jobs, generating growth and leveraging investments in Virginia communities.
2013 Virginia General Assembly Session-Talk with Trip Pollard, Preservation Virginia’s Public Policy Co-Chair and Hunter Jamerson, Macaulay & Burtch about what we might expect when the legislature convenes.
Especially for Local Preservation Organizations-Share with Anne Geddy Cross and Genevieve Keller, Preservation Virginia’s President and Vice President, your ideas about how we strengthen the voice for historic preservation and network effectively to support work on the local and statewide levels.
Who Should Attend: Leadership from local preservation organizations; users of Federal and State historic rehabilitation tax credits including local non-profits, developers, consultants, bankers, attorneys, architects and others
Cost: Free! Help Spread the Word-send this email to all who will be interested!
Schedule:
10:00 to noon Promoting Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credits
Noon to 1:00 p.m. 2013 Virginia General Assembly Session
1:00 to 3:00 p.m. Especially for Local Preservation Organizations
Archaeological News: 19th Century Grave Discovered at University of Virginia
Archaeologists discovered a burial site on the grounds of the University of Virginia. The discovery was made during a survey in preparation for an expansion to the already existing UVa cemetery.
Stone and marble markers show where people were laid to rest more than a hundred years ago.
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Come hear latest from Preservation Virginia and the National Trust for Historic Preservation and learn how you can help communicate the effectiveness of these programs to decision makers on the state and national levels.
Why Should You Attend: The historic rehabilitation tax credit (HTC) is the most significant federal financial commitment to historic preservation. Over the last 34 years, the program has created 2.2 million jobs, leveraged $100 billion in investment, and rehabilitated more than 38,000 existing buildings - while more than paying for itself. Similarly Virginia’s Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credit program has produced jobs, stimulated local economies and created local and state tax revenues.
Because of the economic viability of the historic tax credit, preservation advocates are going on the offense and demonstrating the economic potential of modernizing the credit through advocacy for the “Creating Prosperity through Preservation Act CAPP Act.” It is important to cultivate champions of the historic credit through co-sponsorship of the CAPP Act, among the VA Congressional Delegation.
Who Should Attend: Leadership from local preservation organizations; users of Federal and State historic rehabilitation tax credits including local non-profits, developers, consultants, bankers, attorneys, architects and others.
Virginia Department of Historic Resources' Sandy Website
If your historic property sustained damage from the recent storm, you can access helpful information at the Virginia Department of Historic Resources’ website.
On April 11th, 1767, Royal Governor of the colony of Virginia, Francis Fauquier, addressed Virginia’s House of Burgesses:
The subject I mean is the case of the poor lunatics. I find on your journals that it was Resolved, That an hospital be erected for the reception of persons who are so unhappy as to be deprived of their reason; And that it was Ordered, that the Committee of Propositions and Grievances do prepare and bring in a bill pursuant to the above resolution. But I do not find that any thing more was done in it. It was a measure which I think could offend no party, and which I was in hopes humanity would have dictated to every man, as soon as he was made acquainted with the call for it. It also concerns me much on another account; for as the case now stands, I am as it were compelled to the daily commission of an illegal act, by confining without my authority, a poor lunatic, who, if set at liberty, would be mischievous to society; and I would choose to be bound by, and observant of, the laws of the country. As I think this is a point of some importance to the ease and comfort of the whole community, as well as a point of charity to the unhappy objects, I shall again recommend it to you at your next meeting; when I hope, after mature reflection, it will be found to be more worth your attention than it has been in this.”This speech led to creation of Eastern State Hospital, pictured above. Located in Williamsburg, VirginiaIt became the first public facility in the United States built solely for tending the mentally ill. It opened on October 12th, 1773. This led to a new movement where facilities opened where the mentally ill could be treated for their illness. Francis Fauquier died before its opening, but Eastern State Hospital (not to be confused with Eastern State Penitentiary) remained a force in the treatment in the mental health field until 1935, when the facility was moved from the outskirts of Williamsburg, Virginia.
Beautiful fall day in #harrisonburg. #fall #virginia #downtown #picoftheday #instacollage #autumn #instagram #love (at Court Square)
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