Sentence examples for historical designation from inspiring English sources

The staff report recommends expanding incentives for owners who volunteer their properties to be considered for historical designation, such as creating a historic preservation fund to help owners of single-family homes restore, maintain and improve their houses.

The former hospital's historical designation presented additional renovation hurdles.

While in the District, homeowners must report historical designation of their homes before selling.

I think it should be restricted to its strict historical designation: Futurists, Dadaists, Surrealists etc. "Tristram Shandy" and "Motherless Brooklyn" aren't avant-garde novels; they're novels.

Village Creek's historical designation has worked in the couple's favor in that, by adhering to the period style, they are able to take advantage of state historic tax credits totaling as much as $30,000.

In seeking the historical designation, the Wampanoag tribes — whose name translates to "people of the first light" — said their view to the east across Nantucket Sound was integral to their identity and cultural traditions.

In most cases, the shore icons are merely places of memories, but without specific kinds of historical designations.

Historical designations are fine, he said, but they come with no money to pay for the idea.

"If a property is more valuable with its historic resources intact," he said, "why would you let it get to a state where the only recourse is to demolish it?" No. 58 has not been designated a city landmark, but, according to Mr. Adams, it has the potential to be, sitting on a brownstone block comparable to others with historical designations.

A lot of people shy away from older buildings, from historical designations — that's good for us!

Yes, historical designations have been bestowed on several neighborhoods mostly in more upscale areas of town; but it's sad to think of the hundreds of old homes that were lost when the working-class neighborhoods of central and south Glendale were ravaged by reckless apartment and condo development over the past 50 years.