This year, seven properties in Michigan have already been added to the National Register of Historic Places.

Here's what to know about the six properties in Michigan that have been added to the National Register of Historic Places this year so far.

Three cities are splitting a $170,000 grant in order to preserve and protect historic assets.

On Tuesday, an announcement was made that some of Michigan’s oldest African American neighborhoods will be documented.

DETROIT – A new interactive bike tour launched by the Michigan State Historic Preservation Office highlights some of the most historically significant sites during the civil rights movement in Detroit. The bike tour is part of a larger project to identify and document historically significant sites in Detroit relating to the 20th Century African American Civil Rights movement. The project is funded through an African American Civil Rights program grant by the National Park Service (NPS). “The places associated with the struggle for African American civil rights in the city of Detroit represent a particularly fragile class of resource. The bike tour will also be accessible from the SHPO’s website for the civil rights project.