Firefox just barfed on me. Again. Guess that means I had too many tabs open. Again.

So what was soooo facinating that I just didn’t close the tab? Well lets take a look.

Apparently, I spent wayyyy to much time this weekend researching historic home grants.

• This Google search for the Johanna Favort Fund for Historic Preservation
• Newark’s Economic & Housing Development departmental overview
• Information about the DRC Homeowner Incentive Grant Program Baltimore, MD has
• Resources for Historic Homeowners page by the National Trust for Historic Preservation
• How to Preserve Your Historic Home by the National Trust for Historic Preservation
• the Preserve NJ blog {blog on historic preservation in NJ by Preservation New Jersey}
• Preservation NJ’s Funding Opportunities
• NJ Heritage Development Coalition – Looks like NJ is trying to develop a program like Balitmore and a bunch of other places have to give grants to homeowners {currently you have to be a nonprofit or it has to be a public place to receive grant money}. The bill is currently awaiting action by the Assembly Appropriations Committee. C’mon New Jersey!!!
• How to Take Action for the Historic Property Reinvestment Act
• NJ Heritage Development Coalition
  
• NJ Historic Preservation Office website
• National Trust for Historic Preservation’s NJ Contact page
• NJ Historic Trust’s Capital Preservation Grants page {individuals don’t qualify, btw}
• NJ Historic Commission Grants & Prizes Program
• NJ Council for the Humanities’ Grants Homepage
• NJ DEP Historic Preservation Office’s Tools for Historic Preservation
• About the NJ Chapter of of the American Planning Association

What did I learn from all that research? There’s not much grant money available for individuals with private homes in New Jersey. If you’re a nonprofit or governmental agency OR it’s a public property, you’re more in luck.

Then we have the non-historic home links:

• This discussion about Anderson vs. Marvin {we haven’t gotten quotes for either}.
• True Blood Season 3, episode 8
• True Blood Season 3, episode 9 {watched both, just forgot to close the tabs}
• Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution, episode 101 {watched the series already but why not re-watch it?}
• This cute 1902 Victorian in the country
• Jeannine from Small & Chic in Cville’s musing on gentrification. I know the feeling. People sometimes have very visceral reactions to the the changes taking place here in Newark.

And just for fun –

This picture from the Library of Congress‘ photostream. It’s titled – “Backstage” at the “girlie” show at the Vermont state fair, Rutland (LOC). It’s in their 1930’s-40’s in color set. I like it.

What are you looking at these days?