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Online Education
For over 30 years, Technical Preservation Services has helped home owners, preservation professionals, organizations,
and government agencies by publishing printed pamphlets and books - easy-to-read
guidance on preserving, rehabilitating and restoring historic buildings. These web features build on that tradition.
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Walk Through
This web class helps identify those tangible elements or features that give historic buildings their unique visual character.
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Illustrated Treatment Guidelines
The Guidelines assist in applying The Secretary of the Interior's Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties to the four treatments, Preservation, Rehabilitation, Restoration, and Reconstruction.
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Illustrated
Rehabilitation Guidelines
Illustrated
guidelines specific to the Secretary of the Interior's Standards
for Rehabilitation provide general design and technical
recommendations during the project planning stage.
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Rehab Yes/Nos
Brief case studies focus on issues that frequently arise during rehabilitation projects.
Evaluate the existing conditions, learn what repairs, alterations,
and additions were undertaken, and see how the historic character
was preserved or lost.
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Electronic Rehab
Learn more about The Secretary of the
Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation in this interactive webclass.
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Working on the Past in Local Historic Districts
This site outlines the legal strengths of local historic districts, describes the local preservation ordinance, discusses the benefits of local design guidelines, and makes clear the essential differences between preservation, rehabilitation, restoration, and reconstruction.
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INCENTIVES!
A Guide to the Historic Preservation Tax Incentives Program
Clear, detailed information to assist historic building owners, preservation consultants, community officials, and architects planning historic preservation projects. "Avoiding Incompatible Work," provides illustrated examples of tax credit projects that met, or did not meet, the Standards for Rehabilitation.
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Managing Moisture in Your Historic House
See how moisture invades historic materials; what goes wrong when moisture is not adequately managed; and how to address present and future problems by providing some simple, common sense tips.
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From the Roof
Down & Skin Deep
Learn how the "skin" of
your historic house functions, how to keep surfaces and features
in good repair over time, and what happens if you don't.
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A Checklist for Rehabilitation
Questions designed to suggest a typical process of documenting, evaluating, and assessing a historic building prior to undertaking rehabilitation work.
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Telling Historic Preservation Time
The analogy of historic preservation clocks explains the differences between Preservation, Rehabilitation, Restoration, and Reconstruction.
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