Being a good tour guide can make all the difference in creating a permanent link between the public and your organization. Here are 10 tips to becoming the best tour guide you can be.
It takes money to make things happen. Money enables you to hire craftsmen, build advocacy campaigns, purchase materials and equipment, and much more. Asking for funding doesn’t have to be a daunting challenge, though. No matter your approach, there is one universal truth about fundraising: People give because someone asked them.
This toolkit provides you with some fundamental steps for fundraising. If you can put these basics into practice, then you will increase your chances of turning an ask into financial support for your great preservation work.
An essential part of ensuring the preservation of old places is ensuring community support. In this installment of the How to Save a Place series, we’re sharing ways you can draw attention and build support for your project. Methods range from public relations to community tours.
While these strategies are not a replacement for community participation in the preservation process (which is paramount for any any preservation project) here are a variety of tools, techniques, and tips to help you shine a light on the places you love.
Continuing with our special toolkit series on how to save a place, today we're focusing on taking the first steps towards actually saving the historic place that matters to you.
First, you’ll need to do your research on exactly what makes your place historically significant and understand the threats to your site’s long-term survival.
The 12 tips in this toolkit will help you develop a strong foundation on which to build your preservation efforts.
In our "How to Save a Place" toolkit series, we've covered a lot of ground: managing your expectations during a preservation project; understanding the difference between federal, state, and local groups; learning the fundraising basics; sorting through the various types of historic designations, and more. Now, it's time to start thinking like an advocate, because getting other people to support your project—from your friends and neighbors to government officials—will be critical to the success of your preservation efforts.
If you want to protect a place near and dear to your heart, but aren’t sure where to begin, this toolkit is for you. It provides a solid framework for turning your concern for a historic spot into meaningful, lasting action.
So, without further ado, let’s walk through the steps that can help make your vision of a protected place a reality:
Exploring architecture with kids from an early age can help foster their creativity and expose them to potential new hobbies and career paths. From building a play fort to hosting an architecture-themed birthday party, this toolkit will give you fun ideas for making architecture more understandable for kids.
Renovating your historic home can be a significant undertaking depending on the scope of the project and the condition of the property—and choosing the proper contractor and architect is crucial to your project’s overall success. For those interested in renovating their historic home, here’s a guide for selecting and working with professional contractors and architects.
Historic designations are a go-to tool that professional preservationists consider when trying to save a historic site or property. However, for people who don’t spend their days steeped in saving places, it’s not always easy to determine what separates a national landmark from a local one—not to mention all the stops in between.
This guide will help you better understand the difference between federal, state, and local designations, their benefits, and their application processes.
It takes money to make things happen. Money enables you to hire craftsmen, build advocacy campaigns, purchase materials and equipment, and much more. Asking for funding doesn’t have to be a daunting challenge, though. No matter your approach, there is one universal truth about fundraising: People give because someone asked them.
This toolkit provides you with some fundamental steps for fundraising. If you can put these basics into practice, then you will increase your chances of turning an ask into financial support for your great preservation work.
An essential part of ensuring the preservation of old places is ensuring community support. In this installment of the How to Save a Place series, we’re sharing ways you can draw attention and build support for your project. Methods range from public relations to community tours.
While these strategies are not a replacement for community participation in the preservation process (which is paramount for any any preservation project) here are a variety of tools, techniques, and tips to help you shine a light on the places you love.
Continuing with our special toolkit series on how to save a place, today we're focusing on taking the first steps towards actually saving the historic place that matters to you.
First, you’ll need to do your research on exactly what makes your place historically significant and understand the threats to your site’s long-term survival.
The 12 tips in this toolkit will help you develop a strong foundation on which to build your preservation efforts.
In our "How to Save a Place" toolkit series, we've covered a lot of ground: managing your expectations during a preservation project; understanding the difference between federal, state, and local groups; learning the fundraising basics; sorting through the various types of historic designations, and more. Now, it's time to start thinking like an advocate, because getting other people to support your project—from your friends and neighbors to government officials—will be critical to the success of your preservation efforts.
If you want to protect a place near and dear to your heart, but aren’t sure where to begin, this toolkit is for you. It provides a solid framework for turning your concern for a historic spot into meaningful, lasting action.
So, without further ado, let’s walk through the steps that can help make your vision of a protected place a reality:
Exploring architecture with kids from an early age can help foster their creativity and expose them to potential new hobbies and career paths. From building a play fort to hosting an architecture-themed birthday party, this toolkit will give you fun ideas for making architecture more understandable for kids.
Renovating your historic home can be a significant undertaking depending on the scope of the project and the condition of the property—and choosing the proper contractor and architect is crucial to your project’s overall success. For those interested in renovating their historic home, here’s a guide for selecting and working with professional contractors and architects.
Historic designations are a go-to tool that professional preservationists consider when trying to save a historic site or property. However, for people who don’t spend their days steeped in saving places, it’s not always easy to determine what separates a national landmark from a local one—not to mention all the stops in between.
This guide will help you better understand the difference between federal, state, and local designations, their benefits, and their application processes.
Whether you’re looking for a change of scenery or are putting your place on the market, redecorating the interior of your historic house should be approached differently than a typical redecoration project.
Similar to the facade, the interior of your house not only reflects its residents’ taste, but it also broadcasts certain messages about its history. Just as with preserving a historic structure’s exterior, retaining its interior aesthetic is about maintaining our tangible past in a livable way.
Whether your personal taste veers towards utilitarian industrial or comfortable traditionalist, there are countless ways in which to preserve your house’s interior features while decorating it in the way you like. Here are a few suggestions to get you started.
Any career preservationist (and many amateurs) can relate to the frustration of realizing even one photograph of an altered structure could prove invaluable to a modern-day restoration or research project.
For those of us who love historic buildings and might be working on a rehabilitation, for example, it’s important to document what you see before the structure begins to change. Once you alter physical aspects of a structure, you can never return it to what it was.
In the end, maintaining a record of your property means that no matter what happens in the future, you and others will be able to know precisely what was once there. Explore six simple ways to create that invaluable record and ensure the legacy of the historic structure that matters to you.
Whether you’ve just moved into your dream historic house or have called it home for some time, it can be daunting to know what improvements are safe (and advisable) to tackle on your own. To help you out, we asked four preservation trades experts for their top recommended DIY projects.
Whether you are a student, a historic homeowner, a retiree, or anyone in between, there is a program out there for you to learn building preservation trades.
Having the skills to approach projects on historic buildings is important to maintaining the building's integrity and honoring the original builders. For those who love working with their hands, finding inspiration from rebuilding something that needs some attention, or working with a team to save a place that is filled with history and meaning, this guide is for you!
Oral histories are an ancient way of sharing knowledge from generation to generation and a great resource for learning more about place, whether it is a specific site, the history of a community that is still present, or one that has been lost. According to the Oral History Association, oral history refers to “the interview process and the products that result from a recorded spoken interview (whether audio, video or other formats).”
Are you ready to get out there and get some stories? Grab your recording device, because we are sharing 9 tips on how you can get started with conducting your own oral history interview with your family or members of the community.
Once you've decided whether you need to restore or rehabilitate your historic house, the next step is deciding whether you want to DIY it or hire a professional.
Taking on a restoration or rehabilitation project can be enjoyable if you like hands-on work, whereas hiring a professional can save you time. Or, you might want to do a little of both, where you work on the projects you’re passionate about and contract experts to finish the rest.
Whatever approach you take, the decision involves knowing how much time and money you want to spend, what your interests are, and what skills you’re looking to hire someone for. This list of questions will help you explore different types of professionals who can help you, plus important things to consider before hiring them.
The preservation term rehabilitate can be defined as: "To repair a structure and make it usable again while preserving those portions or features of the property that are historically and culturally significant."
To successfully rehabilitate a historic building, though, it's important to know more than just the definition. While every project will have different needs and solutions, this handy reference guide of 10 basic principles will help you start your rehabilitation project on the right foot.
After you’ve researched your historic home’s history and determined whether you’re restoring or rehabilitating it, you can start planning your project. You can take on as many or as few aspects of planning as your little home-owning heart desires. But no matter who helms the project, planning should include these integral steps.
Once you’ve found your dream historic home (and learned how to finance it), how do you inspect it to make sure it’s in good condition? Obviously a professional inspection—which will cover many of these same areas, but with greater depth and accuracy—is necessary as you move from looking to buying, but knowing what to look for while you're shopping around can help you make your decision too.
You’ve found your dream historic house and figured out its style (parts one and two), so now it’s time to figure out how to pay for it all.
Purchasing a house is a complex process, with many steps, costs, and decisions along the way. When you’re buying a historic house in particular, there are a few different elements and terms you’ll want to be aware of ahead of time so you can prepare and plan accordingly.
Here’s what you need to know about financing your historic house.
According to the National Park Service, "the National Register of Historic Places is the official list of the nation's historic places worthy of preservation." Indeed, when you scroll through the National Register database online, you find thousands of America's historic places. Of course, there are many more places worthy of preserving that help tell the full American story. But the National Register is one official way of recognizing a place’s value.
To help you learn more about this resource, we've collected—and answered—11 frequently asked questions about the National Register of Historic Places.
One way preservationists can express their love for old buildings? Live in one. After all, older and historic homes bring with them craftsmanship, unique details, a sense of history, and (for the handy among us) an opportunity to restore a home to its former glory.
But finding and buying a historic home can be daunting if you’re not familiar with real estate, financing, historic building and district regulations, and inspection procedures. While we have a variety of resources available on how to find, inspect, purchase, and rehabilitate your old-but-new-to-you property, let’s start at the very beginning: with how (and where) to find your historic dream home.
Historic preservation is a broad subject, but it’s easier to understand once you grasp the building blocks of saving places. Here, we outline the fundamental preservation tools at the federal level that preservationists around the country use and depend on to help save places.
When an old neighborhood restaurant closes for good, it can be shocking and disheartening. Gentrification, displacement, and the inability to find an adequate owner are just some of the factors that shutter establishments that have been around for generations.
This toolkit explores some of the ways within your power to help keep your favorite historic food establishments—from restaurants and cafes, to bakeries and markets—in business.
Congratulations, you just bought a historic home! Sooo...now what?
As you'll find out, historic homeownership brings with it a unique set of questions, decisions, and goals. Let's address one of the most basic questions first: Should you restore or rehabilitate your house?
Your decision will influence the house's finished character, the project cost, and the amount of time it takes. It will also impact how much of the work you take on yourself and how much you'll hand off to professionals.
There are many reasons why we save historic places. For some the beauty of a structure remains paramount, for others it is because of a personal connection to a landscape. he reasons are wide and varied, serving as a reminder of why historic places and the work of preservation are so important to communities all around the country. Here, we share six essential reasons to save old places.
No matter the impending weather, it's always important to make sure you are prepared for disaster-related damage. A historic property is no different from the average home, and it often needs extra protection to prevent or reduce further damage. The checklist below is an excellent way to ensure your historic home is protected from major storms and hurricanes.
In the preservation world, the term “recent past” most commonly refers to historic places younger than 50 years old. Modernism, which is another term often associated with the recent past, is generally defined as a style that began to flourish in the United States in the 1930s. Both describe places and cultural resources that are among the most under-appreciated and vulnerable aspects of our nation’s heritage.
You may already know about our country’s recent past story through architectural icons like the Farnsworth House or Glass House (both National Trust Historic Sites), designed landscapes like Lawrence Halprin’s Freeway Park, and nationally significant historic sites like Lorraine Motel, associated with the civil rights movement.
But this story is also told in less prominent places that are equally important to local communities and reveal much about who we are and where we've come from—early fast-food restaurants, drive-through branch banks, post-war housing projects, and suburban developments. And, often, these lesser-known places are the ones at risk, perceived as expendable, unattractive, or unworthy of preservation.
Here are 10 things you can do to help save a place from the recent past in your community:
With beautiful architecture, cultural sites, and landscapes across the country, it can be easy to forget about some of our less heralded historic places, like cemeteries and burial grounds. Even still, these places are important to everyday American life and culture, and what's more, they're present in nearly every community.
Here are 10 tips for preserving historic cemeteries and burial grounds.
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Whether you’re looking for a change of scenery or are putting your place on the market, redecorating the interior of your historic house should be approached differently than a typical redecoration project.
Similar to the facade, the interior of your house not only reflects its residents’ taste, but it also broadcasts certain messages about its history. Just as with preserving a historic structure’s exterior, retaining its interior aesthetic is about maintaining our tangible past in a livable way.
Whether your personal taste veers towards utilitarian industrial or comfortable traditionalist, there are countless ways in which to preserve your house’s interior features while decorating it in the way you like. Here are a few suggestions to get you started.
Any career preservationist (and many amateurs) can relate to the frustration of realizing even one photograph of an altered structure could prove invaluable to a modern-day restoration or research project.
For those of us who love historic buildings and might be working on a rehabilitation, for example, it’s important to document what you see before the structure begins to change. Once you alter physical aspects of a structure, you can never return it to what it was.
In the end, maintaining a record of your property means that no matter what happens in the future, you and others will be able to know precisely what was once there. Explore six simple ways to create that invaluable record and ensure the legacy of the historic structure that matters to you.
Whether you’ve just moved into your dream historic house or have called it home for some time, it can be daunting to know what improvements are safe (and advisable) to tackle on your own. To help you out, we asked four preservation trades experts for their top recommended DIY projects.
Whether you are a student, a historic homeowner, a retiree, or anyone in between, there is a program out there for you to learn building preservation trades.
Having the skills to approach projects on historic buildings is important to maintaining the building's integrity and honoring the original builders. For those who love working with their hands, finding inspiration from rebuilding something that needs some attention, or working with a team to save a place that is filled with history and meaning, this guide is for you!
Oral histories are an ancient way of sharing knowledge from generation to generation and a great resource for learning more about place, whether it is a specific site, the history of a community that is still present, or one that has been lost. According to the Oral History Association, oral history refers to “the interview process and the products that result from a recorded spoken interview (whether audio, video or other formats).”
Are you ready to get out there and get some stories? Grab your recording device, because we are sharing 9 tips on how you can get started with conducting your own oral history interview with your family or members of the community.
Once you've decided whether you need to restore or rehabilitate your historic house, the next step is deciding whether you want to DIY it or hire a professional.
Taking on a restoration or rehabilitation project can be enjoyable if you like hands-on work, whereas hiring a professional can save you time. Or, you might want to do a little of both, where you work on the projects you’re passionate about and contract experts to finish the rest.
Whatever approach you take, the decision involves knowing how much time and money you want to spend, what your interests are, and what skills you’re looking to hire someone for. This list of questions will help you explore different types of professionals who can help you, plus important things to consider before hiring them.
The preservation term rehabilitate can be defined as: "To repair a structure and make it usable again while preserving those portions or features of the property that are historically and culturally significant."
To successfully rehabilitate a historic building, though, it's important to know more than just the definition. While every project will have different needs and solutions, this handy reference guide of 10 basic principles will help you start your rehabilitation project on the right foot.
After you’ve researched your historic home’s history and determined whether you’re restoring or rehabilitating it, you can start planning your project. You can take on as many or as few aspects of planning as your little home-owning heart desires. But no matter who helms the project, planning should include these integral steps.
Once you’ve found your dream historic home (and learned how to finance it), how do you inspect it to make sure it’s in good condition? Obviously a professional inspection—which will cover many of these same areas, but with greater depth and accuracy—is necessary as you move from looking to buying, but knowing what to look for while you're shopping around can help you make your decision too.
You’ve found your dream historic house and figured out its style (parts one and two), so now it’s time to figure out how to pay for it all.
Purchasing a house is a complex process, with many steps, costs, and decisions along the way. When you’re buying a historic house in particular, there are a few different elements and terms you’ll want to be aware of ahead of time so you can prepare and plan accordingly.
Here’s what you need to know about financing your historic house.
According to the National Park Service, "the National Register of Historic Places is the official list of the nation's historic places worthy of preservation." Indeed, when you scroll through the National Register database online, you find thousands of America's historic places. Of course, there are many more places worthy of preserving that help tell the full American story. But the National Register is one official way of recognizing a place’s value.
To help you learn more about this resource, we've collected—and answered—11 frequently asked questions about the National Register of Historic Places.
One way preservationists can express their love for old buildings? Live in one. After all, older and historic homes bring with them craftsmanship, unique details, a sense of history, and (for the handy among us) an opportunity to restore a home to its former glory.
But finding and buying a historic home can be daunting if you’re not familiar with real estate, financing, historic building and district regulations, and inspection procedures. While we have a variety of resources available on how to find, inspect, purchase, and rehabilitate your old-but-new-to-you property, let’s start at the very beginning: with how (and where) to find your historic dream home.
Historic preservation is a broad subject, but it’s easier to understand once you grasp the building blocks of saving places. Here, we outline the fundamental preservation tools at the federal level that preservationists around the country use and depend on to help save places.
When an old neighborhood restaurant closes for good, it can be shocking and disheartening. Gentrification, displacement, and the inability to find an adequate owner are just some of the factors that shutter establishments that have been around for generations.
This toolkit explores some of the ways within your power to help keep your favorite historic food establishments—from restaurants and cafes, to bakeries and markets—in business.
Congratulations, you just bought a historic home! Sooo...now what?
As you'll find out, historic homeownership brings with it a unique set of questions, decisions, and goals. Let's address one of the most basic questions first: Should you restore or rehabilitate your house?
Your decision will influence the house's finished character, the project cost, and the amount of time it takes. It will also impact how much of the work you take on yourself and how much you'll hand off to professionals.
There are many reasons why we save historic places. For some the beauty of a structure remains paramount, for others it is because of a personal connection to a landscape. he reasons are wide and varied, serving as a reminder of why historic places and the work of preservation are so important to communities all around the country. Here, we share six essential reasons to save old places.
No matter the impending weather, it's always important to make sure you are prepared for disaster-related damage. A historic property is no different from the average home, and it often needs extra protection to prevent or reduce further damage. The checklist below is an excellent way to ensure your historic home is protected from major storms and hurricanes.
In the preservation world, the term “recent past” most commonly refers to historic places younger than 50 years old. Modernism, which is another term often associated with the recent past, is generally defined as a style that began to flourish in the United States in the 1930s. Both describe places and cultural resources that are among the most under-appreciated and vulnerable aspects of our nation’s heritage.
You may already know about our country’s recent past story through architectural icons like the Farnsworth House or Glass House (both National Trust Historic Sites), designed landscapes like Lawrence Halprin’s Freeway Park, and nationally significant historic sites like Lorraine Motel, associated with the civil rights movement.
But this story is also told in less prominent places that are equally important to local communities and reveal much about who we are and where we've come from—early fast-food restaurants, drive-through branch banks, post-war housing projects, and suburban developments. And, often, these lesser-known places are the ones at risk, perceived as expendable, unattractive, or unworthy of preservation.
Here are 10 things you can do to help save a place from the recent past in your community:
With beautiful architecture, cultural sites, and landscapes across the country, it can be easy to forget about some of our less heralded historic places, like cemeteries and burial grounds. Even still, these places are important to everyday American life and culture, and what's more, they're present in nearly every community.
Here are 10 tips for preserving historic cemeteries and burial grounds.
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