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Historic Preservation Books
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Historic Preservation: An Introduction to Its History, Principles, and Practice (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as historic-preservation)
avg rating 3.88 — 262 ratings — published 1999
A Richer Heritage: Historic Preservation in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as historic-preservation)
avg rating 3.62 — 117 ratings — published 2003
A Field Guide to American Houses (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as historic-preservation)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,354 ratings — published 1984
Historic Preservation: Curatorial Management of the Built World (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as historic-preservation)
avg rating 3.97 — 39 ratings — published 1982
How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as historic-preservation)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,852 ratings — published 1994
The Economics of Historic Preservation: A Community Leader's Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as historic-preservation)
avg rating 4.00 — 33 ratings — published 2005
Giving Preservation a History: Histories of Historic Preservation in the United States (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as historic-preservation)
avg rating 3.81 — 72 ratings — published 2003
Building Suburbia: Green Fields and Urban Growth, 1820-2000 (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as historic-preservation)
avg rating 3.84 — 361 ratings — published 2003
Place, Race, and Story: Essays on the Past and Future of Historic Preservation (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as historic-preservation)
avg rating 3.88 — 32 ratings — published 2009
In Small Things Forgotten: An Archaeology of Early American Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as historic-preservation)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,059 ratings — published 1977
The Past is a Foreign Country (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as historic-preservation)
avg rating 3.92 — 219 ratings — published 1985
The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as historic-preservation)
avg rating 4.29 — 19,523 ratings — published 1961
Building the Dream: A Social History of Housing in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as historic-preservation)
avg rating 3.81 — 75 ratings — published 1981
Biography of a Tenement House in New York City: An Architectural History of 97 Orchard Street (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as historic-preservation)
avg rating 3.96 — 105 ratings — published 2006
Why Preservation Matters (Why X Matters Series)
by (shelved 3 times as historic-preservation)
avg rating 4.18 — 45 ratings — published 2016
Bending the Future: Fifty Ideas for the Next Fifty Years of Historic Preservation in the United States (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as historic-preservation)
avg rating 3.38 — 24 ratings — published
The Politics of Historic Districts: A Primer for Grassroots Preservation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as historic-preservation)
avg rating 3.42 — 19 ratings — published 2006
Cultural Landscapes: Balancing Nature and Heritage in Preservation Practice (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as historic-preservation)
avg rating 3.65 — 46 ratings — published 2008
Keeping Time: The History and Theory of Preservation in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as historic-preservation)
avg rating 3.85 — 74 ratings — published 1991
Historic Preservation Technology: A Primer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as historic-preservation)
avg rating 4.12 — 25 ratings — published 2008
The House on Tradd Street (Tradd Street, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as historic-preservation)
avg rating 4.01 — 29,916 ratings — published 2008
Caring for Your Historic House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as historic-preservation)
avg rating 3.70 — 10 ratings — published 1998
The Past and Future City: How Historic Preservation is Reviving America's Communities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historic-preservation)
avg rating 3.94 — 135 ratings — published 2016
Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historic-preservation)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,634 ratings — published 2019
Downton Shabby: One American's Ultimate DIY Adventure Restoring His Family's English Castle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historic-preservation)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,052 ratings — published 2022
Living Buildings: Architectural Conservation, Philosophy, Principles and Practice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historic-preservation)
avg rating 4.67 — 3 ratings — published 2008
The Restoration Manual: An Illustrated Guide to the Preservation and Restoration of Old Buildings (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historic-preservation)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1983
Historic Preservation for Professionals (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historic-preservation)
avg rating 2.93 — 14 ratings — published 2008
Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn: The Connected Farm Buildings of New England (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historic-preservation)
avg rating 4.16 — 51 ratings — published 1984
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historic-preservation)
avg rating 4.44 — 44,943 ratings — published 2017
A History of American Architecture: Buildings in Their Cultural and Technological Context (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historic-preservation)
avg rating 3.86 — 36 ratings — published 1999
Crafting Preservation Criteria: The National Register of Historic Places and American Historic Preservation (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as historic-preservation)
avg rating 3.62 — 21 ratings — published 2014
A Visual Dictionary of Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historic-preservation)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,730 ratings — published 1995
Case Study Houses (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historic-preservation)
avg rating 4.29 — 485 ratings — published 2002
Historic Preservation: Caring for Our Expanding Legacy (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historic-preservation)
avg rating 3.33 — 3 ratings — published 2013
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historic-preservation)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,067 ratings — published 1985
Shadowed Ground: America’s Landscapes of Violence and Tragedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historic-preservation)
avg rating 3.89 — 71 ratings — published 1997
The American Family Home, 1800-1960 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historic-preservation)
avg rating 4.10 — 10 ratings — published 1986
Repairing Old & Historic Windows (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historic-preservation)
avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 1991
Interpreting Our Heritage (Chapel Hill Books)
by (shelved 2 times as historic-preservation)
avg rating 4.12 — 528 ratings — published 1957
Old Buildings, New Forms: New Directions in Architectural Transformations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historic-preservation)
avg rating 4.38 — 26 ratings — published 2013
Buying Time for Heritage: How to Save an Endangered Historic Property (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historic-preservation)
avg rating 3.89 — 19 ratings — published 2007
Preserving Cultural Landscapes in America (Center Books on Contemporary Landscape Design)
by (shelved 2 times as historic-preservation)
avg rating 3.64 — 22 ratings — published 2000
Architecture in the United States (Oxford History of Art)
by (shelved 2 times as historic-preservation)
avg rating 3.74 — 65 ratings — published 1998
Little White Houses: How the Postwar Home Constructed Race in America (Architecture, Landscape and Amer Culture)
by (shelved 2 times as historic-preservation)
avg rating 4.10 — 30 ratings — published 2013
The Chesapeake House: Architectural Investigation by Colonial Williamsburg (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historic-preservation)
avg rating 4.72 — 25 ratings — published 2013
What Style Is It?: A Guide to American Architecture, Revised Edition (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historic-preservation)
avg rating 3.64 — 74 ratings — published 1982
How to Write a Historic Structure Report (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historic-preservation)
avg rating 3.50 — 4 ratings — published 2011
Tweed Courthouse: A Model Restoration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historic-preservation)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2006
The Architecture of Additions: Design and Regulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historic-preservation)
avg rating 3.93 — 14 ratings — published 1998
“[Traveling] makes you realize what an immeasurably nice place much of America could be if only people possessed the same instinct for preservation as they do in Europe. You would think the millions of people who come to Williamsburg every year would say to each other, "Gosh, Bobbi, this place is beautiful. Let's go home to Smellville and plant lots of trees and preserve all the fine old buildings." But in fact that never occurs to them. They just go back and build more parking lots and Pizza Huts.”
― The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America
― The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America
“I was trying to discover examples of a living restoration, trying to go beyond discussions about correct historic colors, materials, and techniques.
I looked to the past for guidance, to find the graces we need to save. I want to be an importer. This is not nostalgia; I am not nostalgic. I am not looking for a way back. "From where will a renewal come to us, to us who have devastated the whole earthly globe?" asked Simone Weil. "Only from the past if we love it."
What I am looking for is the trick of having the same ax twice, for a restoration that renews the spirit, for work that transforms the worker. We may talk of saving antique linens, species, or languages; but whatever we are intent on saving, when a restoration succeeds, we rescue ourselves.
-- Howard Mansfield, The Same Ax Twice: Restoration and Renewal in a Throwaway Age”
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I looked to the past for guidance, to find the graces we need to save. I want to be an importer. This is not nostalgia; I am not nostalgic. I am not looking for a way back. "From where will a renewal come to us, to us who have devastated the whole earthly globe?" asked Simone Weil. "Only from the past if we love it."
What I am looking for is the trick of having the same ax twice, for a restoration that renews the spirit, for work that transforms the worker. We may talk of saving antique linens, species, or languages; but whatever we are intent on saving, when a restoration succeeds, we rescue ourselves.
-- Howard Mansfield, The Same Ax Twice: Restoration and Renewal in a Throwaway Age”
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