Our Mission

To preserve the historic character of our neighborhood through community involvement and recognition of Kensington as a national historic district. 

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Our movement has grown and contains a committee of volunteers who have worked extensively to document and catalog houses and gather the necessary data required to establish our criteria and reasons why we qualify on the national level.

 

To achieve this goal, we now need to hire historic preservation consultants with the expertise and experience to take our neighborhood through the process at the national and state level.  We are almost there.

 

Here’s what we have done so far

• We cataloged 1650 resources, which include homes, businesses, parks, canyons, and the Kensington neon sign with photographs and by architectural styles.

• Created a “Historic Kensington” website.

• We have been and are continuing to work closely with Talmadge Park Estates Historic District, which was recently listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Our neighbors in Talmadge have been a tremendous help in providing resources and programming to help us gather the required data.

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What’s next

• We are working on getting bids from 3 or 4 historic preservation consultants to do the work required to get us our National Designation.

• We are starting fundraising efforts to gather the required funds to pay for this firm.

• We are continuing to research and draft our historic designation paperwork.

 

How can you help?

• Donate money to fund the historic preservation consultants.

• Become a matching donor. With a $5000 minimum, you can match donations from our neighbors to help fund-raise.

• Donate your time to help us fund-raise.

• Sit on a committee.

• Help us work on communications.

• Work with us to save and preserve the neighborhood we love so dearly.