Each year, the Springfield Preservation Alliance recognizes five irreplaceable community assets that need our help. These Preservation Priorities contribute to Springfield’s distinct identity and help create our unique sense of place. Often suffering from years of disregard, these historic resources are in varying states of neglect. Some are even threatened by demolition. However, they are too important to lose. This is why we need your help in protecting, promoting, and preserving these historic resources for future generations.

Being declared a Preservation Priority does not guarantee action, or even protection, but is designed to increase awareness and understanding of each site’s importance. The Adopt a Preservation Priority program partners our community’s dedicated citizens with these significant local resources. Here are ways that you can get involved:

1. Complete historic research on a property
2. Talk to the property owner about their plans for a property
3. Survey and document a property
4. Promote a property through walking tours, texts, and/or podcasts
5. Write a letter supporting a property’s preservation to the local newspapers
6. Plan a community clean up day in the area around a property
7. Nominate a property as a Springfield Landmark

If you are interested in getting involved in protecting, promoting, and preserving one of these significant historic resources, signup now to be a Priority Liaison. Liaisons will work with a member of our Public Policy Committee to determine which measures are appropriate and work to implement these ideas. Do not worry if you do not have experience. An eagerness to effect change through preservation is the only requirement! To get involved in protecting the best of our past for our future, please signup today!