Property Owner Information

Have a "contributing" property in a historic district, listed on the Register of Historic Kansas Places (the State Register), or the National Register of Historic Places? Planning a project for your historic building? Here you will find resources on the process of working on a historic property, financing opportunities, and how to rehabilitate, preserve, and maintain your historic property. 

Grants & Tax Credits

Typically, three types of historic properties are eligible for historic preservation grants and tax credits: 

  1. Properties listed on the State Register of Historic Places.
  2. Properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
  3. Properties in a historic district designated as "contributing" properties (see map).

State Tax Credits

The state tax credit program provides a tax credit equal to 25% of qualified expenditures (or 30% for non-profits) to rehabilitate or make improvements or upgrades to income-producing and non-income-producing properties listed on the State or National Register or classified as a "contributing" property in a district.

Federal Tax Credits

The federal tax credit program provides an income-tax credit equal to 20% of qualified expenditures to rehabilitate or make improvements or upgrades to income-producing properties  listed on the State or National Register or classified as a "contributing" property in a district.

More Information 

Information about these and other State and Federal Historic Tax Credit Programs can be found on the Tax Credit Basics page of the Kansas Historic Society website.

Grants

The most common grant offered to owners of historic properties is the Heritage Trust Fund (HTF) Grant, offering up to $100,000 for rehabilitation, restoration and preservation projects on historic properties with a 20% match. Other grant opportunities offered by the State of Kansas, the federal government and other institutions can be found on the Grants page of the Kansas Historic Society website.

Example of tax credit and grant project

Eligible Properties

You can view if a property is "contributing" or listed on the State or National Register by referring to the Historic Districts and Sites Map below. State and National Register sites are marked with an orange dot and contributing properties in a historic district are overlaid in green. A list of local properties on the State and National Register is also on the Historic Properties page on the City website. The official historic status of properties can be searched in the Kansas Historic Resources Inventory. Properties included solely on the local Manhattan Register of Historic Places are not eligible for these tax credits and grants.