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Louisiana Main Street History |
Louisiana Main Street is a comprehensive revitalization program designed to promote the historic and economic redevelopment of traditional commercial areas in rural Louisiana. The Main Street program improves all aspects downtown, producing both tangible and intangible benefits. Improving economic management, strengthening public participation, and making downtown a fun place to visit are as critical to Main Street's future as recruiting new businesses and rehabilitating buildings.
Anyone can use the Four Point Approach® to revitalize downtown, but the designation, an Official Main Street of Louisiana, (see the list of for Louisiana Main Street Communities) indicates that a community has made a commitment to the Four Point Approach® and to historic preservation.
For more information, www.tpcg.org/eco_dev/pdf/LouisianaMainStreetprogram.pdf. |
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| National Trust for Historic Preservation |
The National Trust provides leadership, education, advocacy and resources to save America's diverse historic places and revitalize our communities.
The National Trust for Historic Preservation is a private, nonprofit membership organization dedicated to saving historic places and revitalizing America's communities. Recipient of the National Humanities Medal, the Trust was founded in 1949 and provides leadership, education, advocacy, and resources to protect the irreplaceable places that tell America’s story. Staff at the Washington, D.C., headquarters, six regional offices and 28 historic sites work with the Trust’s 270,000 members and thousands of preservation groups in all 50 states.
The need for the National Trust has increased since its founding in 1949. When historic buildings and neighborhoods are torn down or allowed to deteriorate, a part of our past disappears forever. When that happens, we lose history that helps us know who we are, and we lose opportunities to live and work in the kinds of interesting and attractive surroundings that older buildings can provide.
For more information, visit www.nationaltrust.org |
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