Meet our 2024 Excellence In Preservation Award Recipients! The awards were held on Saturday, 26 October 2024 at the historic The Delegate Hotel in Frankfort to recognize Kentuckians for their exceptional accomplishments in the preservation, rehabilitation and interpretation of the......

Kentucky is in danger of losing our most endearing and defining landmarks—our historic county courthouses. Throughout the state, county courthouses have endured moments of great discourse in American history, leaving some tattered in the wake. Others have faced controversy for simply being historic, but those that have endured are better for...

Kentucky’s Historic Preservation Tax Credit has been a vital economic development tool to revitalize neighborhoods, Main Streets and downtowns, create jobs, put Kentuckians to work and keep them in the workforce, return once-vacant buildings to tax rolls, and generate revenue statewide. Over the years, Preservation Kentucky and sup...

Each year thousands of Kentuckians work tirelessly to preserve Kentucky’s legacy reflected in our historic buildings, structures, landscapes and prehistoric sites. Preservation Kentucky established the Excellence in Preservation Awards in 2012 to recognize exceptional accomplishments in the preservation, rehabilitation and interpretation of our a...

TOUR120 SHOWCASES KENTUCKY’S HISTORIC ARCHITECTURE! Preservation Kentucky’s Tour120 is an exciting new statewide heritage tourism program designed to raise awareness of the importance of historic preservation to Kentucky’s communities, and raise funds to help the nonprofits that preserve, manage and showcase them. Tour120 launched during Nat...

2018 Awards Held at Historic Undulata Farm, Shelby County   Each year thousands of Kentuckians work tirelessly to preserve Kentucky’s legacy reflected in our historic buildings, structures, landscapes and prehistoric sites. Preservation Kentucky established the Excellence in Preservation Leadership Awards......