Preservation Links

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Federal Government

• Advisory Council on Historic Preservation
• National Park Service, Heritage Preservation Services
• National Register of Historic Places
• Certified Local Government Program
• Federal Historic Preservation Tax Information
• History and Culture Competitive Grant Programs
• Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation
• Library of Congress – Search Public Laws
• National Archives and Records Administration

Non-Profit and Educational

• National Preservation Institute
• National Coal Heritage Area
• National Trust for Historic Preservation
• Preservation Online: the magazine of the National Trust for Historic Preservation
• Preserve/Net: The Preservationist's Resource
• Organization of American Historians
• National Center for Preservation Technology and Training
• Association for the Preservation of Civil War Sites
• Berkeley County Historical Society
• Civil War Trust
• Preservation Alliance of West Virginia
• Partners for Sacred Places
• Society for American Archaeology
• West Virginia Historic Preservation Societies
• National Building Museum
• National Railway Historical Society
• American Farmland Trust
• Association for Gravestone Studies 
• Society for Industrial Archeology
• Society for Commercial Archeology
• The Heritage Education Network
• Fairmont Community Development Partnership, Inc
• Jefferson County Historical Society

Resources for skills and trades in Property Maintenance

• National Center for Preservation Technology and Training
• Preservation Briefs from the National Park Service - Of particular note are Brief 3 (Improving Energy Efficiency in Historic Buildings), Brief 9 (The Repair of Historic Wooden Windows), and Brief 13 (The Repair and Thermal Upgrading of Historic Steel Windows)
• Property Care White Papers
  
• Windows Repair and Retrofit: Studies and Research (from the CA Office of Historic Preservation)
• Preservation Trades Network
• Preservation Directory
• Building Online
• Tradweb-Directory of Custom Building and Restoration Services
• Old-House Interiors - Old-House Online
• Old House Network
• Timber Framers Guild
• Traditional Building Magazine
• American College of the Building Arts

Links of Interest

• National Conference of State Historic Preservation Officers
• National Alliance of Preservation Commissions
• NAPC - Education and Training Programs
• Community Development Society
• Planning Commissioners Journal
• The Greenest Building.org (has an embodied energy calculator and a demolition energy calculator)
• Old House Realty Network

Education

• Teaching with Historic Places
• Architecture Lesson Plans K-5
• ArchiTeacher
• Archaeologyland!
• The Heritage Education Network
• My Home Matters lesson
• Construction Work activity (pdf)
• Over 100 Activities to do in a cemetery
  

Also visit our Archaeology Links