Clara Barton National Historic Site, Glen Echo, MD; National Park Service.

Historic Preservation

• Interesting sources
• A specialized library collection
• Organizations
• U.S. government organizations
• Digital libraries
• Related laws
• Directories of Internet sites on historic preservation

Interesting sources

• America's Eleven Most Endangered Historic Places
  Selected by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, with the History Channel
• Great Buildings Collection 
  Information on historical buildings, worldwide
• Lighthouse Heritage Site 
  An inventory of lighthouses around the United States. Contains survey information for 595 light stations, the Historic Lighthouse Preservation Handbook, sources for more information, and a listing of lighthouses by construction type. Produced by the National Park Service.
• Maritime National Historic Landmarks 
  Over 100 maritime properties designated National Historic Landmarks
• Mission 66: Modern Architecture in the National Parks
  
• National Building Museum 
  Washington DC museum dedicated to architecture and preservation
• National Historic Landmarks 
  Search the database
• National Register of Historic Places 
  Official list
• The Octagon Museum 
  The oldest museum in the United States devoted to architecture and design, located one block from the Main Interior Building
• Preservation briefs 
  Brochures produced by the Heritage Preservation Services of the National Park Service, designed to assist owners and developers of historic buildings in recognizing and resolving common preservation and repair problems prior to work.
• Secretary of the Interior's Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties, 1995
  
  • Illustrated guidelines for rehabilitating historic buildings 
    Not binding, but information contained here will help users understand and meet the Standards
  • Electronic Rehab 
    An online tutorial on the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation offered by the National Park Service.

Library

• National Trust for Historic Preservation Library Collection

Organizations

• American Architectural Foundation 
  Non-profit educational organization
• American Association for State and Local History
• American Cultural Resources Association
• American Planning Association
• International Council of Monuments and Sites
• National Main Street Center
• National Trust for Historic Preservation 
  With links to Preservation magazine and Preservation advocate news
• Partners for Sacred Places 
  Dedicated to historic preservation of religious properties
• Preservation Action 
  Nationwide organizaton working to further preservation of historic structures
• Rails-to-Trails Conservancy 
  Non-profit organization that works to convert former railroad lines to hiking/biking trails
• Society for Commercial Archeology 
  "the oldest national organiztion devoted to the buildings, artifacts, structures, signs, and symbols of the 20th-century commercial landscape"
• Society of Architectural Historians 
  Supports and encourages scholarly research in architecture and preservation

U.S. government organizations

• Advisory Council on Historic Preservation
• American Battlefield Protection Program of the National Park Service
• Historic Preservation Planning Program of the National Park Service
• National Center for Preservation Technology and Training of the National Park Service

Digital libraries

• Historic American Buildings Survey/ Historic American Engineering Record
  Digitized images of historic structures, updated monthly by the Library of Congress
• American Landscape and Architectural Design, 1850-1920 
  2,800 slides from the Library of Congress representing buildings and landscapes built during that period

Related laws

• PreserveNet Law
• Laws, Executive Orders and Regulations 
  Page provided by the National Park Service
• Federal Historic Preservation Case Law, 1966-1996, with the Federal Historic Preservation Case Law Update, 1996-2000

Directories of Internet sites on historic preservation

• Cyburbia.org 
  "Internet resources for the built environment"
  
• PreserveNet 
  The major index to sites on historic preservation
• Preserve & Protect 
  Web site hosting service for historic preservation organizations; provides links to the sites and much information on historic preservation
• State Historic Preservation Officers and Tribal Historic Preservation Officers 
  Lists provided by the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation