Projects
With such a big mission it can be hard to stay updated on all of our incredible projects. Here you can check back regularly to see what is new, in progress, or preserved.
Modernizing Montana's Historic Tax Credit
Across Montana, historic buildings offer untapped opportunities for downtown revitalization, economic growth, job creation and community stability. A key tool to unlock this potential is the state’s historic tax credit. Nearly 30 years old, the credit needs modernization. Compared to other states, it delivers a lower return on investment, leaving many viable building rehabilitation projects unrealized, especially in rural Montana.
Baxendale Schoolhouse Rehabilitation
Across the nation and Montana, the preservation trades are a dying field. To help build this critical workforce, Preserve Montana is rehabilitating and reusing the historic Baxendale Schoolhouse as an innovative year-round preservation classroom and carpentry training center and workshop. Its rehabilitation provides a learning lab for hands-on workshops and the Preserve Montana Trades Corps pre-apprenticeship program.
Explore Montana App
Featuring more than 150 of Montana’s most exciting underappreciated and off-road heritage sites, this app has something for everyone from long time residents to casual day-trippers. Users can explore the sites nearest to them using the map function, plan out stops during a summer road trip, or follow organized tours across Big Sky Country. The app also hosts our popular Hidden Montana tour series.
Big Sky Schoolhouse Survey
Montana’s rural schoolhouses are among the largest undocumented resources in the nation and are disappearing at an alarming rate. To help solve this problem, Preserve Montana launched one of the most comprehensive projects in our organization’s history in 2015, and completed it in 2023.
46° North Podcast
With so many great stories to tell and hear from the preservation world we have created a central hub to share them. Interviews with preservation professionals and prominent minds discussing historic preservation, place-based history, and restoration, along with important, intriguing, and ground-breaking stories from the field of preservation and more.
