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Education
Educational programs build awareness and strengthen skills that
support preservation efforts in the community. Helping property
owners learn how to maintain their historic structures as active, via-
ble assets is key to a successful preservation program. Many property
owners willingly follow appropriate rehabilitation procedures and
develop compatible designs when they are well informed about pres-
ervation objectives.

The annual Mayor’s Awards for Workshops that provide helpful information about rehabilitation
Historic Preservation honors techniques and publications that build an understanding of histor-
outstanding work on historic ic significance are examples of education and outreach strategies.
structures throughout the community. Well-written design guidelines that provide useful information can
also serve an educational role, in addition to a regulatory role as a
management tool.

Education and outreach efforts help ensure that the importance
of historic preservation is well understood within the community.
Additionally, they may help property owners better understand the
range of flexibility that is available in the adaptive reuse of historic
structures.

In addition, providing education and training opportunities for staff
In addition to walking tours, bikes are and the HPC is integral to a strong preservation program.
often used as a form of transportation
to view and learn more about historic
resources in Brookings.

Identification

Incentives &
Management
Benefits

Advocacy &
Education Partnerships

Administration

The two photos above show holiday
trolley rides, an annual event hosted
by the Brookings Historic Preservation
Commission, that focuses on the
history of and buildings in the Central
Residential Historic District.

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