Historic Preservation: Research, Restore, and Preserve

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

From the US National Park Service, a collection of guidelines and instructional materials for historic preservation.

Learn how to find historic and antique building parts for your historic restoration project. Also get tips for buying and selling antique plumbing, hardware, and other types of architectural salvage.

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

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

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

Many 19th century American farmhouses were designed by women. Here's an example, with floor plans.

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.

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.

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.

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

Historic Plaster Conservation Services presents photos of their extensive restoration project.