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Coast Chronical Feb. 8, 1976 Page 2.
lines underp?*ound# The full text of the November 1978 HUD is available from Regional Field Offices according to Preservation News January 1979*
How do the owners of properties in historic districts benefit? The owners of buildings on the NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC ? I ACES and in a NATIONAL REGISTER DISTRIC may take tax-duductions for improvement or rehabilitation cf their buildings under the guidelines of the 1976 Tax Reform Act, and 5>0/£0 matching funds are available for Stabilization, Preservation, Protection, Rehabilitation and Restoration of their buildings. A building within a historic district is approved for the National Register of Historic Places under the Department of the Interior Standards for Historic Preservation Washington D. C.
Property owners of buildings in a historic district have no restric-
tions of their rights or ownership ef properties.
To be an informed resident we encourage yon to attend this program. A historic district in Day St. Louis will preserve the architectural/historical and cultural values of local and statewide importance.
Margaret M. Gibbe
Hancock County Hi	ty
Historian