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Old-House Tool Kit
Your one-stop center for information on researching, remodeling and preserving your old house.

Old House Restoration: Technical Guides
From the US National Park Service, a collection of guidelines and instructional materials for historic preservation. In this directory, you'll find technical guides for Architectural Investigation, Repairing Stucco, Solving Paint Problems, Exterior Siding, and more.

Architectural Salvage
From your Guide, an introduction to shopping for architectural salvage.

About Vinyl Siding
Should you side your old house with vinyl? If it is already sided, should you remove the vinyl? Here are facts, resources, and links to how-to help.

Adaptive Reuse
Adaptive reuse, or re-use, is a process that adapts buildings for new uses while retaining their historic features.

Standards for Rehabilitation
This short Preservation Brief from the US Department of Interior offers general guidelines for the respectful restoration of old buildings.

On Trust for the Nation
Excerpts from On Trust for the Nation by architect and conservationist Sir Clough Williams-Ellis, designer of Portmeirion, Wales.

A 19th Century Farmhouse: Woman Designed
Many 19th century American farmhouses were designed by women. Here's an example, with floor plans.

National Register Database
The United States National Register of Historic Places maintains this online index with descriptive information about America's historic properties. You can search by name, architect, significant person, multiple property submission name, location, Federal agency, or any of a number of themes used to organize Web pages. There are more 10,000 links.

Old House Journal Online
From the publisher of Old-House Journal magazine, this Web site has how-to advice on restoring older homes, discussion forums, old-house real estate ads, classified ads for old-house items, historic house plans, links to restoration trade shows, and recent articles from the print magazine.

History of the Preservation Movement
A chronology of historic preservation milestones from 1813 to the present, from Eastern Michigan University.

How-To: Preservation and Rehabilitation Guidelines
From The Old House Web, important guidelines and information to help you begin restoring an older home. Also find links to a discussion forum and resources for products and supplies.

Dissertations in Architectural History
From the Society of Architectural Historians, a listing of dissertations covering topics related to architectural history, urbanism, landscape studies, interior design, and more

Ecole d'Avignon
The Center for Historic Preservation in Avignon offers training and consulting for the restoration of historic architecture.

Restoring Notre Dame Cathedral in Ottawa
Historic Plaster Conservation Services presents photos of their extensive restoration project.