Partnerships and Special Programs

As a small agency with limited funds, the Kentucky Heritage Council actively works in partnership with other agencies and non-profit organizations to achieve its mission and goals.  The agency also works with local governments and communities to help support their efforts in preserving their unique historic buildings and cultural resources.  An example of this successful partnering is with Breckinridge County Fiscal Court and the Breckinridge County Historical Society Friends of the Holt House Committee, who have steadily been gaining support and momentum to preserve the home of Judge Joseph Holt, President Abraham Lincoln and the nation's first Judge Advocate General who presided over the trial of the Lincoln conspirators accused in his murder.

Other successful partnerships include working in conjunction with Preservation Kentucky Inc. [] on a variety of programs throughout the state, the Kentucky Main Street Program and participating communities doing great work across the Commonwealth, and presentation of annual Ida Lee Willis Memorial Foundation Preservation Awards in conjunction with the foundation chartered in memory of Kentucky's first state historic preservation officer.

Kentucky Historic Preservation Conference

Visit www.kypreservationconference.org [] for information about the 2012 Kentucky Preservation Conference, to be presented Sept. 20-22 in the Western Kentucky Lakes Region and host communities Princeton, Dawson Springs and Eddyville/Kuttawa

Since 1986 the Kentucky Heritage Council has coordinated a biennial statewide conference to focus attention on historic preservation efforts throughout Kentucky and to provide technical assistance and training to local organizations and community leaders.  In recent years the conference has been co-sponsored by Preservation Kentucky Inc.  Communities across Kentucky have hosted these meetings, and historic places in each of these communities have served as the meeting backdrop to highlight successes and issues in preservation as well as provide a venue for participants to learn from guest speakers, presenters and each other.

Following is a list of previous conferences and host communities:

October 21-23, 2010
Preservation Works - Frankfort
Presented in partnership with the 14th Annual International Preservation Trades Workshop, sponsored by the Preservation Trades Network

September 4-6, 2008
Preserving the Spirit of Home – Bardstown

September 28-30, 2006
The Art of Preservation – Covington

September 28-October 3, 2004
Restore America: Communities at the Crossroads
National Historic Preservation Conference presented by the National Trust for Historic Preservation and Kentucky partners – Louisville

May 9-10, 1986
Preservation in Perspective – Louisville