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U.S. Historic Sites Edit-a-thon
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When
- Friday, October 20, 2017 10AM-4PM
Where
- National Trust for Historic Preservation
- 2600 Virginia Avenue NW
- Suite 1100
- Washington, DC 20037
Additional Reading
editAdaptive Reuse cont.
- Historical structure to receive plaque dedication
- New Uses for Old Mines
- What They Did In These 20 Rundown Buildings Is Almost Unbelievable. But It’s Totally Brilliant.
- Jane B. Eisner Middle School
- Royal Mills in West Warwick, RI (case study)
- How A Historic Movie Palace Became America's Most Unusual Parking Garage
- Adapt and Reuse: Transforming the Old to the New
- What One Town Did With This Abandoned Walmart Building Will Make Your Jaw Drop.
- Old Downtown church restored for use as apartments’ community center
- Industrial Strength: The Adaptive Reuse of Ames Shovel Works
- Heinen's opens downtown supermarket in renovated Cleveland Trust Building
- All Aboard! Check Out These Train Depots-Turned-Restaurants
- The coolest converted buildings housing breweries
- Iconic Paradise Theater on Grand Concourse set to begin next act as megachurch of Creflo Dollar (December 2, 2012)
- Russiaville train depot one of few buildings to survive
- Evansville bus depot hits the market as restoration wraps up
- Got Mill?
- Extreme Adaptive Reuse: 5 Conversion Projects
- 7 Cool Examples of Adaptive Reuse
- Bedford industrial building repurposed as senior apartments
- 15 stellar historic preservation, adaptive reuse, and renovation projects
- Mil Revitalization Districts (MRD) (Smart Growrth/Smart Energy Toolkit)
- The Mill Revitalization District Case Study, Wood Mill, Lawrence, MA
- Malden Mills manufacturing site, Lawrence, MA
- 20 Creative Adaptive Reuse Projects
Architectural History
- Society of Architectural Historians (SAH)
- "Conserving Twentieth-Century Built Heritage: A Bibliography"
- SAH's publications
- 25 Free Architecture Books You Can Read Online
- Getty Publications Virtual Library
- UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004
- Adaptive Reuse as a Strategy towards Conservation of Cultural Heritage: a Survey of 19th and 20th Century Theories.
- 115 Years of American Homes
Barns
- Indiana Landmarks list of resources
- Barn Survey:
- National Barn Alliance resources
- The American Barn: A Disappearing American Icon
Battlefields
- Civil War Site Preservation Success Stories
- The Slave Cabin Project
- The Forgotten; The Contraband of America and the Road to Freedom
- Historic Battlefields: Open space worth fighting for
Bridges
- State-specific manuals and guidance: OH, VA
- Indiana Landmarks SPANS Task Force document
- Want an old bridge? Many cities say yes.
- California's Historic Bridges and Tunnels
- Indiana Bridges Inventory Summary
Cemeteries
- Best Practice Recommendations for Cleaning Government Issued Headstones
- 9 Tips for Cemetery Preservation
- Essentials for Cemetery Marker Clean Up
- National Cemetery Preservation Abstracts and Video
- Basic Monument Cleaning
- Association for Gravestone Studies
Stores
- Chain Drugstores on Main Street
- ULX: Retail Reconstructions
- What One Town Did With This Abandoned Walmart Building Will Make Your Jaw Drop.
- UC to transform 1st Cincinnati Sears store into $16M innovation center
- Heinen's opens downtown supermarket in renovated Cleveland Trust Building
Civic Buildings
- Helping Local Governments Save Municipal Buildings in Wisconsin
- The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation’s third triennial report to the president, “In a Spirit of Stewardship: A Report on Federal Historic Property Management”
- NAPUS Action Guide for preventing the closing or consolidation of your Post Office
- May Feature: Duluth’s Repurposed Public Buildings:
- How Andrew Carnegie Built the Architecture of American Literacy
Climate Change
- Adapting Rising Tides project in San Francisco
- Sea Level Rise Strategic Plan – Anne Arundel County, Maryland, Vulnerability Assessment for Cultural Resources - Assessing and Protecting the County’s Heritage from Climate Change Impacts- Archeological Sites, Historic Buildings, Cemeteries, and Scenic & Historic Roads, 2010.
- Preserving Coastal Heritage webinars held on 2/27; 3/6; & 3/20/2014
- National Landmarks at Risk: How Rising Seas, Floods and Wildfires are Threatening the United States' Most Cherished Historic Sites
- National Landmarks at Risk: Case Study Sites
- Preserving Coastal Heritage
- preservationCRISIS: A Climate Change Reading List
- Heritage and Resilience; Issues and Opportunities for Reducing Disaster Risk
- National Park Service Climate Change Response Strategy
- Building Community Resilience Through Historic Preservation
- 15 Archaeological Sites Revealed—and Now Threatened—by Climate Change
Conservation
- The Getty Conservation Institute
- GCI PUBLICATIONS
- Conservation Issues in Modern and Contemporary Murals
Cultural Tourism
Disaster Recovery
- NCPTT
- Preservation Nation Resources
- Disaster Relief
- Disaster Risk
- Unreinforced Masonry Buildings and Earthquakes: Developing Successful Risk Reduction Programs, October 2009
- Why Historic Preservation Needs to Be Part of Disaster Planning
- Building Community Resilience Through Historic Preservation
Diversity
- Nation, Diversity
- The Pacific Intangible Cultural Heritage Mapping Toolkit (2012)
- Better Reflecting Our Country’s Growing Diversity
- American Progress
Easements
Economic Benefits
- Advisory Council on Historic Preservation’s Report on Measuring Preservation’s Economic Impact (2011)
- Advisory Council on Historic Preservation’s Report on Measuring Preservation’s Economic Impact (2011) Updated in 2013
- Statewide Studies on the Economic Impacts of Historic Preservation
- ECONOMIC BENEFITS OF HISTORIC PRESERVATION ACTIVITIES IN PENNSYLVANIA (2011)
- Policy Recommendations to Strengthen the Power of Preservation: A Companion Report to: Economic Benefits of Historic Preservation Activities in Pennsylvania
- The Economic Power of Heritage and Place: How Historic Preservation is Building a Sustainable Future in Colorado (2011)
- CONNECTICUT LOCAL HISTORIC DISTRICTS AND PROPERTY VALUES (2011)
- (2011) Annual Report on the Economic Impact of the Federal Historic Tax Credit
- Strom Thurmond Institute Fiscal Impact Analysis: An assessment of fiscal and economic effects of State Tax credit for Renovation of abandoned buildings.
- The New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) Economic Impact Report 2003-2012
- The New Markets Tax Credit: At Work in Communities Across America (December 2012)
- Leveraging Federal Economic Development with State Historic Rehab Tax Credits (January 2013)
- Economic Impacts of Historic Preservation in Nebraska
- Citizen's Guide to Local Pres Ordinances (pdf)
- Alliance Review Newsletter Index (pdf)
- FAQ Page
- CONNECTICUT LOCAL HISTORIC DISTRICTS AND PROPERTY VALUES, 2011
- Working on the Past in Local Historic Districts
- NEIGHBORHOOD CONSERVATION DISTRICTS AND THEIR RELEVANCE TO HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY
- Alternative Forms of Historic Designation
- What are neighborhood conservation overlay districts?
- PROTECTING OLDER NEIGHBORHOODS THROUGH CONSERVATION DISTRICT PROGRAMS
- Preserving History or Hindering Growth? The Heterogeneous Effects of Historic Districts on Local Housing Markets in New York City
- The Impact of Local Historical Designation on Residential Property Value;an Analysis of Three Slow-Growth and Three Fast-Growth Central Cities in the United States
Historic House of Worship
- Houses of Worship
- for Sacred Spaces
- Houses of God… or not?
- The Institute for Sacred Architecture's Sacred Architecture Journal
- Future for Religious Heritage
- From House of Worship to House: The Adaptive Use of Sacred Spaces
- Historical structure to receive plaque dedication
- Old blessing, new vision How to navigate historic preservation
- Holy Smokes: What Do We Do With All These Churches
- How To Reuse A Church: Our Top Ten
- Repurposed Churches: Changes to Montreal's Religious Heritage
- Churches Outliving their Use in Montreal, Canada
- 11 New Uses for Old Churches
- Duluth’s Repurposed Public Buildings: Part 1, Houses of Worship
- Cool rehabs of abandoned Pittsburgh churches
- Old Downtown church restored for use as apartments’ community center
- Beautiful Churches That Have Been Converted into Secular Buildings
- How Some Churches Are Turning Empty Buildings into Artist Spaces