Hart Main Street is proud to announce that the Downtown Hart Historic District has been officially listed on the National Register of Historic Places as of November 24, 2015. ASTI Environmental was contracted by Michigan’s State Historic Preservation Office to complete the nomination for the Hart Downtown District in 2014.  Architectural Historian Katie Kolokithas spent more than a year in collaboration with Hart Main Street and the Oceana County Historical and Genealogical Society and state officials, completing extensive historic research and documentation.  The State Historic Preservation Review Board unanimously approved the nomination in September of 2015 and the nomination was  submitted to the National Park Service in October of 2015.
The creation of a historic district in Hart will have both cultural and economic benefits; it will encourage the preservation of Hart’s historic downtown, spur greater heritage tourism in the area, increase property values, and will create opportunities for buildings owners in the district to obtain Federal Historic Tax Credits for the rehabilitation of their buildings.