Historic Preservation Resources

What is Historic Preservation?

Historic preservation is a discipline that strives to identify and protect historically and culturally significant buildings, sites, structures, and landscapes.

Preservation Links

The National Park Service (for the National Register of Historic Places, National Parks, and preservation regulations and standards)

The National Trust for Historic Preservation (for Historic Preservation 101, preservation advocacy, careers, and resources)

DOCOMOMO-US (for information about buildings, neighborhoods, and sites of the Modern movement in the United States)

The Recent Past Preservation Network (for modernism, less than 50-years old historic sites, and advocacy)

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