Current
Legislation and Background | Advocacy
Resources | NCSHPO Initiatives |
| Best Practices | Additional
Resources
Project lists
- National Park Service
- School Modernization projects
- Other programs
- Airport
- Amtrak
- CDBG
- Energy
- Housing
- Public Safety
- Schools
- Streets/Roads
- Transit
- Water
Legislation BackgroundOne-pagers for legislative visits (from 2009 Advocacy Day)
- Funding for State Historic Preservation Offices
- Funding for a Historic Resources Inventory
- The Community Restoration and Revitalization Act (H.R.1043 and S.584)
- Congressional Historic Preservation Caucus
- Funding for Preserve America
- Funding for Tribal Historic Preservation Offices
Funding for Save America's Treasures Support for Historic Preservation in the reauthorized Transportation Bill
"Dear Colleague" Letters (2009)
NCSHPO Congressional Testimony
Archives
Best Practices (Collected Wisdom from the NCSHPO Archives)
Archaeology | Architectural Styles, Successful Preservation and Good Infill Design |
Context Studies and Design Guidelines | Energy Efficiency, Sustainability and Green Design |
Heritage Tourism | Ordinances, Statutes and Protections | Survey, Historic Registers and Historic Structures Reports | Tax Credits and Incentives | OtherPlease note the date of the posting. More recent information may be available.
- Access to archaeological databases (posted 8.25.08)
- HUD Guidance on Archaeology (posted 6.19.09)
- Rock Cairns and Walls (posted 6.12.09)
Architectural Styles, Successful Preservation and Good Infill Design
- Armories (posted 4.16.09)
- Bridges (posted 6.4.)
- Chain Hotels (posted 4.16.09)
- College Campuses (posted 4.16.09)
- Concrete Arch Maintenance (posted 6.4.09)
- Conservatories/Greenhouses (posted 6.16.09)
- Institutional Buildings (posted 4.16.09)
- Jails (posted 4.15.09)
- Medical Clinic (posted 6.11.09)
- Outdoor Ampitheaters (posted 4.15.09)
- Trailer Parks/Mobile Homes (posted 4.15.09)
- Wood Grain Elevators (posted 4.15.09)
- Automobiles (posted 6.4.09)
- Graveyards (posted 4.15.09)
- Historic Airfields (posted 4.15.09)
- New Deal Buildings (posted 4.15.09)
Energy Efficiency, Sustainability, Green Design (posted 4.15.09)
- Green Downtowns (posted 6.22.09)
- Green roofs in historic districts (posted 9.5.08)
- Historic Preservation is Inherently Sustainable - from the LA SHPO (posted 6.12.09)
- Sustainability Survey (posted 11.2.09)
- White roofs and historic districts (posted 9.15.09)
- Wind farms and Section 106 (posted 6.11.09)
- African American local tourism resources (posted 12.16.08)
- War of 1812 (posted 6.22.09)
Ordinances, Statutes and Protections
- Appeals Processes (posted 6.13.09)
- Executive Orders (posted 4.16.09)
- Statutes regulating preservation of state historic resources (posted 8.15.08)
- For the database of state legislation: http://www.ncsl.org/programs/arts/statehist.htm
- Demolition by neglect ordinances (posted 8.15.08)
Survey, Historic Registers and Historic Structures Reports
- State Historic Registers (posted 4.16.09)
- Historic Structures Reports (posted 8.15.08)
- Grants for agricultural buildings (posted 8.28.08)
- State Tax Incentives (updated 6.4.09)
- Insurance for Historic Properties (posted 6.13.09)
- Quotations on the importance of history and historic preservation (posted 9.12.08)
- Building a firm foundation: How to choose a qualified contractor- from the LA SHPO (posted 6.12.09)
- Tips for Maintaining and Reparing Historic Soft Clay Brick Structures - from the LA SHPO (posted 6.12.09)
- What You Never Knew You Wanted to Know About Plaster (page 1)- from the LA SHPO (posted 6.12.09)
- What You Never Knew You Wanted to Know About Plaster (page 2) - from the LA SHPO (posted 6.12.09)
- An AASHTO Center for Environmental Excellence Report on DOT-Funded Positions for Environmental Stewardship and Streamlining Initiatives
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