Supporters of the Elmwood Historic District East are touting the benefits of being on the national register of historic places, a designation they're hoping to achieve for the area that stretches between Delaware Avenue, Elmwood Avenue, Summer Street and Delaware Park. Supporters gathered for a meeting with residents Tuesday night to explain the advantages of the designation.
Clinton Brown Company Architecture is the firm writing the nomination for the historical designation. Clinton Brown says the designation provides residents three advantages.
Brown says residents "gain a statewide and nationally recognized sense of the importance of where they live. Historic districts enhance and raise property values over time more than the ambient real estate market [and] potentially a thousand property owners in Elmwood East would be eligible for state historic homeowner tax credits of 20% of the costs of preapproved improvements to their homes."
Brown's firm also wrote the nomination for the Elmwood Historic District West, which received the designation in 2012.