The Above Is A Google Earth Satellite View of Laurel MT, With Box Showing Laurel’s Downtown Registered Historic District, North of Main Street, Running from 3rd Ave To Wyoming Ave.

. More Of Billings, And Laurel Officially Historic.
..By Ed Kemmick Of The Gazette Staff Oct 11, 2010
….Two areas of the Billings and Laurel downtowns have been accepted for listing on the National Register of Historic Places. The register, which was created in 1966 under the National Park Service, is the official list of historic places in the United States that are deemed worthy of preservation.
…The Laurel Downtown District and the Old Town Neighborhood District in Billings are now on the register. …. The district in Laurel encompasses 70 buildings, roughly in a long rectangle along Main Street and First Street West between Wyoming and Fourth avenues, as well as a handful of buildings north of First Street between First and Second avenues. ….
…. James Caniglia, the Laurel city planner, said the listing has three major benefits. Property owners will now be able to apply for federal historic tax credits to help pay for rehabilitating their buildings and signs advertising the historic district will be placed on the interstate. …
….He said the designation is especially good news for Laurel because it meshes with a proposal to create a tax-increment financing district in the downtown area…. tax revenues flowing into the fund will be used to help pay for façade improvements to downtown buildings.
….The Laurel Urban Renewal Agency is also providing technical assistance grants so property owners can work with architects, engineers and other professionals to figure out how best to make improvements to their buildings.

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