Historic preservation matters: making the case for historic preservation -- Real estate is the name of the game: preservationists need to know and understand real estate -- Working with endangered properties: how Preservation North Carolina works with property -- Alternatives to outright acquisition: using others' time and money to do your work -- Going to the mat for a property: when acquisition is the only alternative -- The architectural animal shelter: how to market that poor pitiful pup -- Closing the deal: getting from the ideal to the achievable -- Staying true to the building: finding a balance between purity and flexibility -- Armstrong Hotel Apartments in Gastonia: a case study. Weaving together numerous tools and partners -- and keeping faith -- Mills and mill villages: case studies. Larger, more complex projects -- Neighborhood work: case studies. Using real estate skills to revitalize a neighborhood -- Protection without ownership: using easements to protect properties -- Building relocation: move it or lose it. Moving structures can be great preservation -- as a last resort -- Partnerships for preservation: playing well with others to save important places -- Working with community institutions: leveraging your knowledge and contacts -- Museums and stewardship properties: they're real estate, too -- When success is elusive: dealing with disasters or near-misses -- The functional nonprofit preservation organization: strong staff and a supportive board -- The people of preservation: preservationists as social capital.
Summary:
"Fully revised and redesigned, Buying Time for Heritage is a practical guide on how to save endangered historic properties. Using Preservation NC's Myrick Howard's decades of experience in historic preservation, readers will find legal, financial, political, and technical tools and strategies for the would-be preservationist"-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.