GENERAL OVERVIEW

Since 2001, LCHIP has proudly assisted community groups across New Hampshire to conserve and preserve New Hampshire’s most important natural, cultural and historic resources by offering financial assistance grants for preservation planning, historic rehabilitation, and land conservation.

To be eligible, applicants must be either a:

  • Municipality or other political subdivision of the state of New Hampshire, or a
  • Publicly supported nonprofit corporation exempt from federal income tax under section 501 (c) of the Internal Revenue code.

The Zimmerman House in Manchester, now part of the Currier Museum of Art, is the only Frank Lloyd Wright‐designed house open to the public in New England. An LCHIP grant in 2012 helped improve the air quality in the building.