North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office

10/07/2020

It's North Carolina Resiliency Week 2020. Our office works closely with constituents affected by flooding, and to that end, we are developing a series of videos to help with recovery and resiliency. Here's one by Restoration Specialist Reid Thomas.

The North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office gives you a few tips for drying out historic properties if you've experiences any flood conditions from...

05/18/2020

More National Register news! New listings in Orange County for the Cedar Grove School and the Schley Grange Hall!

The National Register of Historic Places added two Orange County properties to its listings on Friday: the Cedar Grove School and the Schley Grange Hall.

05/15/2020

New National Register listing!

BYNUM — Sometimes a bridge is just a bridge, a utilitarian structure. Other times, a bridge does more than merely accommodate rote traffic over an obstacle to and fro. Sometimes, says Debbie …

02/24/2020

Our own Survey / National Register Supervisor Sarah David quoted.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Antebellum Southern plantations were built on the backs of enslaved people, and many of those plantations hold places of honor on the National Register of Historic Places -...

12/20/2019

Focus on archaeology

Evidence of the earliest people to settle in North Carolina is being found at the bottom of the state’s rivers and creeks. The mysterious stone structures are prehistoric traps known as fish weirs

11/01/2019

This morning, Governor Cooper signed into law HB 399, which extends our North Carolina state historic tax credits to January 1, 2024. As you may recall, they were set to sunset at the end of this year. Please tell a friend in preservation!

https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2019/Bills/House/PDF/H399v7.pdf

10/18/2019

HPOWEB 2.0 COMING!!! The GIS team at the NC State Historic Preservation Office is pleased to announce that on Monday morning, October 21, 2019 we will launch version 2.0 of HPOWEB, the web mapping tool that displays the locations of well over 100,000 historic resources, properties, and districts across the state.

First developed in 2011, HPOWEB accomplishes several tasks: assist environmental planners at other government agencies to make speedy identifications of historic resources that may be affected by a proposed new highway, cell tower or other undertaking; aid historical research by architectural historians and the public; and facilitate a better understanding of the wide array of resources eligible for the historic rehabilitation tax credit program.



The new version of HPOWEB will look remarkably similar to the old, but with a few changes. Most notably, it will now work with any web browser (except, in some cases, Microsoft Edge) and on any device. This means you will be able to take HPOWEB with you into the field and on any smartphone or tablet!

Also, new tools allow the user to filter the display of only the data they are interested in, or to upload their own data onto the screen. Additionally, new datasets – such as commercial tax credit project locations – will be available publicly for the first time.

Unfortunately, one tool is going away: the Google StreetView pegman. Google’s policy disallows the continuation of this functionality, although the GIS team has provided a hyperlink to a website that mashes up StreetView and two aerial perspectives.

While we recognize that there will undoubtedly be a small learning curve to using the site, we anticipate that the new version of HPOWEB will serve you even better than the first – helping you to identify, evaluate, protect, and enhance our state’s bountiful collection of historic resources. Full how-to user guides and documentation will be forthcoming.

On Monday, all hits to the old website domain (gis.ncdcr.gov/hpoweb) will be redirected to a new gallery of maps offered by the NC Department of Natural & Cultural Resources GIS team. Be sure to bookmark this page so you can stay abreast of any future additions!

Esri ArcGIS viewer for Flex

10/15/2019

We are excited to aid our colleagues at the North Carolina Transportation Museum for an eventual National Register nomination of this train car -- did you know rolling stock can be listed in the National Register of Historic Places?

RALEIGH– The North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources has been awarded a grant by the National Park Service to renovate a 1920s rail car built to comply with Jim Crow laws that is…