National Trust Loan Fund
*United StatesMacGillivray's Building Before Rehab
MacGillivray's Building was threatened with demolition until active residents joined with a local CDC to acquire it, rehab it and return it to prominence Learn More
MacGillivray's After Rehab
The MacGillivray's Building mixed-use conversion catalyzed additional investment in this Baltimore historic district. Learn More
1620 Washington Ave. Before Rehab
This formerly vacant and badly blighted apartment house in Knoxville, TN was rehabbed by NTLF partner Knox Heritage Inc. into owner-occupied housing Learn More
1620 Washington Ave. After Rehab
The rehabilitation of 1620 Washington Ave. in Knoxville's Parkridge neighborhood is a triumph in preservation-based community revitalization. Learn More
Recent News
NTLF partnered with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to make $663,000 in grants to nine rehabilitation projects that will help transform older and historic communities nationwide.
About NTLF
The National Trust Loan Fund has more than 35 years of experience in supporting preservation-based community development projects across the country. As a certified Community Development Financial Institution, it has a mission of providing financial and technical resources to organizations that use historic preservation to support the revitalization of underserved and distressed communities.
NTLF specializes in predevelopment, acquisition, mini-permanent, bridge and rehabilitation loans for residential, commercial and public use projects. Eligible borrowers include not-for-profit organizations, revitalization organizations or real estate developers working in designated Main Street communities, local, state or regional governments, and for profit developers of older and/or historic buildings.
The National Trust Loan Fund also offers a wealth of expertise to help build the capacity of Main Street communities and Statewide and Local Partners in preservation-based real estate development. Its training topics including utilizing tax incentives, demystifying the loan process and principles of real estate development. It also offers a Preservation Road Show, where a team of NTLF staff visit a community and help local stakeholders shape bankable real estate development projects and plan and finance the creative reuse of existing assets.
Our Track Record
Since 1980, the Loan Fund has lent approximately $22 million to projects totaling $503,830,000 in development costs for a leverage ratio of $23:1. This participation has created 1,753 housing units--1,051 of them affordable--209 permanent jobs, and 60 construction jobs.
Our Partners
The Loan Fund works with a wide variety of partners on preservation projects nationwide. The Residential Rehab case studies profile several organizations that have unique approaches for obtaining historic properties and rehabilitating them into safe, attractive and comfortable single- and mult-family units. The Cornerstones case studies describe how entities have successfully converted vacant, abandoned and/or underutilized "white elephant" buildings into new uses.
Our Projects
Recent lending activity by NTLF includes loans to support the conversion of: a former brewery into office and program space for a social services agency serving low-income populations; a shirt factory into retail, office and loft apartments, and a former telephone exchange building into residences. Additional case studies illustrate the range of other successful adaptive reuse projects supported by NTLF.
Learn More
To learn more about application requirements, please read the Loan Fund's Financing Checklist.
Contact Us
Please email NationalTrust_LoanFund@nthp.org or call Paul Thorbjornsen at 202-588-6360 with questions.
- NOTE: NTLF is not considering unsolicited requests for financial assistance at this time. However, we are available to provide technical assistance for your historic preservation organization or real estate development project.
Submitted by lee david at: November 17, 2009
Robin, try the following links: http://www.preservationnation.org/resources/find-funding/ http://www.preservationnation.org/resources/faq/historic-buildings/
Submitted by Robin at: October 25, 2009
My husband and I own an old opera house, built 1874 & 75. It is on the National Historic Registry. The Opera house is on the second floor of the building and has not been used for anything but storage for many years. The downstairs houses our business. We would like to restore the upstairs, one because it would help us when we decide to retire, secondly because it is an awesome old building that should help revitalize our downtown area, as it is located on Main Street directly across from our courthouse. We have never been involved in any restoration projects or in any event requiring grant funding. We are a little over whelmed trying to find out where to get help. We have contacted the KY Heritage Council and only tax incentives are available there and we are not sure of the best way to use those. We have an architect coming to look at the building. We have contacted the local historic society and the local library for pictures and any help they might provide. Can you offer any other suggestions.
Submitted by neds at: September 20, 2009
cannot read financing checklist how can i get a copy
Submitted by RealTimePundit at: August 26, 2009
When will the 2009 Knight Foundation Awards be released?? Applications were due in June. It is now nearly September.
Submitted by Elizabeth at: June 10, 2009
EJ, please call us at Preservation NC - 919-832-3652 - or contact us online - www.presnc.org. We have a staff member, Mike Stout, who works in the Winston-Salem area. We are here to help.
Submitted by lee david at: June 2, 2009
EJ, I work in the information center of the National Trust. You should contact your State Historic Preservation Office in North Carolina (www.hpo.ncdcr.gov), Preservation North Carolina (www.presnc.org) and the National Trust's Southern Office (use 'regional offices' link under 'about us' above) for help.
Submitted by EJ at: May 27, 2009
Please give me a direct contact to discuss ways to help save old houses in 3 designated historic neighborhoods/districts located in a very low to moderate income area of our City. I am desperate for help with these houses--there were 1005 structures when the study was completed, no telling how many are left as the area keeps going down. Waughtown is the second oldest area of Winston-Salem. Old Salem is the oldest. Please help me!