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Maryland's Rent-Free Historic Homes

Posted by: Nate Berg

25 September 2007 - 5:00am

This report from National Public Radio looks at Maryland's Resident Curatorship program -- a method of historic preservation that allows people to live rent-free in historic homes in exchange for performing preservation work.

"In Maryland, a state program allows people who restore historic state-owned properties to live in them for free — including the 19th-century farmhouse occupied by Hannah Gonzalez. Manager Bruce Alexander tells Liane Hansen about the curatorship program."

Full Story: Living History in a Maryland Farmhouse
Source: NPR, September 24, 2007
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