An Introduction to the West Virginia State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO):
Preservation Links
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Federal Government
- Advisory Council on Historic Preservation
- National Park Service, Heritage Preservation Services
- National Register of Historic Places
- Certified Local Government Program
- Federal Historic Preservation Tax Information
- History and Culture Competitive Grant Programs
- Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Rehabilitation
- Library of Congress – Search Public Laws
- National Archives and Records Administration
Non-Profit and Educational
- National Preservation Institute
- National Coal Heritage Area
- National Trust for Historic Preservation
- Preservation Online: the magazine of the National Trust for Historic Preservation
- Preserve/Net: The Preservationist’s Resource
- Organization of American Historians
- National Center for Preservation Technology and Training
- Association for the Preservation of Civil War Sites
- Berkeley County Historical Society
- Civil War Trust
- Preservation Alliance of West Virginia
- Partners for Sacred Places
- Society for American Archaeology
- West Virginia Historic Preservation Societies
- National Building Museum
- National Railway Historical Society
- American Farmland Trust
- Association for Gravestone Studies
- Society for Industrial Archeology
- Society for Commercial Archeology
- The Heritage Education Network
- Fairmont Community Development Partnership, Inc
- Jefferson County Historical Society
Resources for skills and trades in Property Maintenance
- National Center for Preservation Technology and Training
- Preservation Briefs from the National Park Service – Of particular note are Brief 3 (Improving Energy Efficiency in Historic Buildings), Brief 9 (The Repair of Historic Wooden Windows), and Brief 13 (The Repair and Thermal Upgrading of Historic Steel Windows)
- Property Care White Papers
- Windows Repair and Retrofit: Studies and Research (from the CA Office of Historic Preservation)
- Preservation Trades Network
- Preservation Directory
- Building Online
- Tradweb-Directory of Custom Building and Restoration Services
- Old-House Interiors – Old-House Online
- Old House Network
- Timber Framers Guild
- Traditional Building Magazine
- American College of the Building Arts
Links of Interest
- National Conference of State Historic Preservation Officers
- National Alliance of Preservation Commissions
- NAPC – Education and Training Programs
- Community Development Society
- Planning Commissioners Journal
- The Greenest Building.org (has an embodied energy calculator and a demolition energy calculator)
- Old House Realty Network
Education
- Teaching with Historic Places
- Architecture Lesson Plans K-5
- ArchiTeacher
- Archaeologyland!
- The Heritage Education Network
- My Home Matters lesson
- Construction Work activity (pdf)
- West Virginia Historic Preservation Office: Scavenger Hunt activity (pdf)
Archaeology Links
- The East Steubenville Site
- Harper’s Ferry National Historic Park
- Arbuckle’s Fort: An Archaeological Adventure
- Jamestown Historic Site
- National Parks Service Links to the Past
- Reed Farmstead Archaeological Site, Hardy County
- Historical Archaeology in Harpers Ferry and Loudoun Valley
- Archaeology at Fort Edwards