Preservation NC
The Triangle
Founded in 1939, The Historic Preservation Foundation of North Carolina Inc. (known as Preservation North Carolina or PNC) is North Carolina’s only private nonprofit statewide historic preservation organization. Its mission is saving historic places important to the diverse people of North Carolina. It enjoys a national reputation, having been cited by the National Park Service as “the premier statewide preservation organization of the South, if not the Nation” and the National Trust for Historic Preservation as “the model organization of its kind.”
Through its award-winning Endangered Properties Program , PNC acquires endangered historic properties and then finds purchasers willing and able to rehabilitate them. It has protected 900 historic properties through covenants or easements, representing at least $500,000,000 in private investment. Buyers have put these properties into a multitude of new uses, adding millions of dollars to local tax rolls and creating numerous jobs. Several of the larger properties have been adapted into affordable housing. More than 4,000 acres have been placed under PNC’s protective covenants, perpetually restricting their development. Most of the properties saved through the Endangered Properties Program have been in rural areas or small towns, the parts of North Carolina most in need of reinvestment
Programs
- Endangered Properties Program
- We Built This
- Preservation NC Directory
presnc.org
