AUDUBON – Kelli Lydon likes to spend time digging into the dusty previous, serving to communities get tax credit and serving to them discover a new use for area which may have been designated for demolition.
He was at Audubon on Jan. 21 for an open home for some second-story flats in-built downtown Audubon below a particular federal program that labored with the state.
A profession on this space was not one thing she particularly went to high school for – Kelli went to literature college – and after school she determined she needed to be a librarian and labored for 20 years as a librarian.
He turned serious about historical past and historic buildings as a result of his household has lived in Des Moines for the reason that metropolis’s early days. She additionally wanted to purchase a home, and ended up shopping for a real “fixer prime,” then from 2009 to 2018, she labored with a Des Moines rehab membership. As a really sensible and mechanically minded individual, she discovered that rehabbing a house was one thing she actually needed to discover ways to do.
A mixture of these issues helped information her towards her present job.
Kelli is a Historic Preservation Marketing consultant, an Impartial Contractor, and at Audubon, she was working with Matt Campbell, a constructing proprietor, together with the Metropolis of Audubon to assist them with some second-story houses and to assist them with the historic tax. credit for the mission.
“Folks name me to information them by way of the tax credit score course of,” he stated.
That features beginning by displaying how (the constructing) is historic, laying out what makes it an essential constructing, he defined. At Audubon, Campbell was serious about putting in second-story flats, a federal grant program was obtainable, and a mission was created.
“So now we have to verify all the things is as much as the Dwelling Secretary’s requirements,” he stated.
“While you take a constructing which may have collapsed,” he stated, you may put that constructing to a brand new use, “nothing however good issues come after one thing like that.”
Due to his curiosity in historical past, he additionally does normal historic analysis and genealogical analysis, and has labored on tasks equivalent to placing up the second-floor flats at Audubon.
He stated he bought a great feeling from rescuing a constructing as an alternative of tearing it down, including: “What motivates me is that I like his story and I like the sensation of getting achieved one thing.”
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