Preservation Iowa

"During a November 1989 historic preservation conference organized by Iowa State University and the Iowa Chapter of the Victorian Society, discussions kept returning to the theme that the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) wasn't doing enough for preservation efforts in Iowa. The SHPO director responded to comments by explaining the political and financial constraints by which his office had to operate. He suggested that Iowa needed its own private, nonprofit preservation group to help take care of these concerns. (Iowa was one of four states that did not have its own preservation advocacy group at the time.) Several members of the assembled audience volunteered both money and time to get such an organization started. Preservation Iowa had its start."

Preservation Iowa is the statewide partner of the National Trust for Historic Preservation in Iowa.