The National Park Service (NPS) has awarded $10.7 million in grant funding to support the preservation and stabilization of historic sites on HBCU campuses.
The grants come from fiscal year 2025 appropriations from the Historic Preservation Fund, which invests in communities nationwide to safeguard cultural resources, strengthen local economies, and ensure that more Americans see their history represented.
“Preserving our nation’s history is about honoring the people, events and cultures that shaped who we are,” said Jessica Bowron, NPS Comptroller exercising the delegate authority of the Director. “These grants empower communities to tell their stories, celebrate their heritage and ensure that future generations can connect with the past in meaningful ways.”
Eleven HBCUs have received these grants:
- Tuskegee University in Alabama was awarded $750,000 to support the rehabilitation of Dorothy Hall.
- Morehouse College in Atlanta received $500,000 to support the rehabilitation of George Sale Hall.
- Morris Brown College in Atlanta was awarded $750,000 to rehabilitate Fountain Hall.
- Paine College in Augusta, Georgia, received three grants, each worth $750,000, to fund rehabilitation efforts for the HBCU’s Epworth Hall, Historic Belle Bennett Hall, and Historic Peters Campus Center.
- Savannah State University in Georgia received $750,000 to rehabilitate Hill Hall.
- Alcorn State University in Mississippi received $750,000 to support phase three of the Oakland Memorial Chapel rehabilitation project.
- Rust College in Holly Springs, Mississippi, received two $750,000 grants to fund rehabilitation projects at the Carnegie Auditorium and the Leontyne Price Library.
- Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, received $750,000 for phase two of the Tyler Hall Historic Window rehabilitation project.
- Winston-Salem State University in North Carolina, was awarded $749,700 to rehabilitate the S. G. Atkins House.
- Benedict College in Columbia, South Carolina, received $750,000 to preserve Morgan Hall.
- Tennessee State University in Nashville received $670,650 to rehabilitate the Harned Science Hall, as well as $618,664 to rehabilitate the Historic Tom Jackson Industrial Arts Building.
