Advisory Council on Underwater Archaeology
American Cultural Resources Association
Archaeologic.com
The Archaeological Conservancy
Archeology and Ethnography Program (National Park Service)
Archaeological Institute of America
Archeological Sites of the Southwest
ArchNet
Arkansas Archeological Survey
CRM Magazine (NPS)

Cultural Resource Network
Egyptology Resources
Internet Resources for Heritage Conservation, Historic Preservation, and Archeology (NPS)
Iowa State Archeologist
Jamestown Rediscovery
National Archeological Database (NPS)
North Carolina: Archeology
Society for American Archeology
Society for Archaeological Sciences
Society for Historical Archeology
Society for Industrial Archeology
Southeast Archeological Center
Southwest Archeology
Transportation Resource Board's Committee on Historic and Archaeological Preservation in Transportation (A1F05)

Stanford University Library
Texas A & M Library
University of Chicago
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor Library

Askins Achievement Award

Paul E. Buchanan Award for Excellence in Field Work, Interpretation, and Public Service (Vernacular Architecture Forum)

Jeffrey Weiss Award Competition

Save Our History National Honors

United States Census Bureau
E-Podunk: The Power of Place

Historic Albany Foundation
Atlanta Preservation Center
Historic Annapolis Foundation

Historic Bethlehem Partnership
Boston Preservation Alliance
Historic Boston Incorporated
Preservation Coalition of Erie County (Buffalo)
Historic Charleston Foundation (SC)
Preservation Society of Charleston (SC)
Preservation Dallas
Historic Denver Incorporated
Preservation Wayne (Detroit)
Marktown Preservation Society (East Chicago, IN)
Galveston Historical Foundation
Greater Houston Preservation Alliance
Historic Kansas City Foundation

Los Angeles Conservancy
Memphis Heritage
Miami Design Preservation League
Historic Milwaukee Incorporated
Historic Nashville Incorporated
Preservation Resource Center of New Orleans
Vieux Carre Commission (New Orleans)
Historic Districts Council of New York City

Seventh Regiment Armory Conservancy (NYC)
Jackson Heights Beautification Group (NYC)
Landmarks West (NYC's Upper West Side)
New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission
New York Landmarks Conservancy
Preservation League of Staten Island
Neighborhood Preservation Center
Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia
Historic Phoenix
Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation
Greater Portland Landmarks
Providence Preservation Society
Capital Area Preservation (Raleigh)
Historic Richmond Foundation
Landmarks Association of Saint Louis
San Antonio Conservation Society
San Francisco Architectural Heritage
Historic Santa Fe Foundation
Historic Seattle

Landmarks Society of Greater Utica

Washington D.C. Preservation League

World Heritage Centre

Learning Portal (NPS)

NCPTT Links (NPS)
Teaching with Historic Places
The Heritage Education Network

Tourism Cares

Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System (cemetery record search, NPS)

Cleaning and Resetting Stone Grave Markers (Video-Nat'l Center for Preservation Training & Technology, NPS)

5th Street Cemetery Necrogeographical Study

Guidelines for Evaluating and Registering Cemeteries and Burial Places (NPS Bulletin)

Federal Highway Administration history of roads and infrastructure in the United States

HistoricRoads.org
Information on American transportation history
Lincoln Highway Association
National Association for Olmsted Parks (information on Olmsted designed parkways)
National Park Service Roads and Parkways

National Route 66 Federation
National Scenic Byways Program
Yellowstone Trail, “From Plymouth Rock to Puget Sound”

Jarrot Mansion (Illinois)

American Academy in Rome
CIPA (International Committee of Architectural Photogrammetry)
Cultural Heritage Charters & Standards
European Heritage Institute
Heritage Conservation Network (promoting hands-on building conservation workshops)
International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM)
International Charters -- ICOMOS
International Council of Museums
International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS)
International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works
International Interior Design Association
ICOMOS Bibliographical Database
International Cultural Property Protection
Inventory of Heritage Organisations in Europe
Pan-European Federation for Heritage (Europa Nostra)
UNESCO-ICCROM  Asian Academy for Heritage Management
US Ambassador's Fund for Cultural Preservation
World Monuments Fund

Austria
Bundesdenkmalamt (Austrian Federal Office for the Protection of Monuments)

Canada
Canadian Architecture Collection
Canadian Conservation Institute
Canadian Heritage Information Network
Carribean Conservation Association
Cultural Human Resources Council

Finland
Museovirasto (National Board of Antiquities)

France
Le Ministère de la culture
Les services de l'administration centrale: La direction de l'architecture et du patrimoine

Ireland
Built Heritage of Northern Ireland
Heritage Council of Ireland
Heritage of Ireland
Office of Public Works

United Kingdom
Building Conservation Directory
English Heritage
Historic Environment Local Management (HELM)
Historic Scotland
National Trust
National Trust of Scotland
Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS)

Federal codes

• 36 CFR 60 - National Register of Historic Places (1981)

• 36 CFR 61 Procedures for Approved State and Local Government Historic Preservation Programs (1983)

• 36 CFR 63 Determinations of Eligibility for Inclusion in the National Register

• 36 CFR 65 National Historic Landmarks Program

• 36 CFR 800 - Protection of Historic and Cultural Resources (1986)

Court cases

• Federal Historic Preservation Case Law, 1966-1996  (summaries of 135 cases, compiled by the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation)

executive orders
• Executive Order No. 11593 Protection and Enhancement of the Cultural Environment (1971)
• Executive Order No. 13006 Locating Federal Facilities On Historic Properties In Our Nation's Central Cities (1996)
• Executive Order No. 13007 Protection of Religious Practices and Sacred Sites (1996)

 

legislation

• Antiquities Act of 1906 -- 16 USC 431-433
• Historic Sites Act of 1935 -- 16 USC 461
• Archeological and Historic Preservation Act of 1974 (aka Moss Bennett Act)
• Archaeological Resources Protection Act of 1979
• National Environmental Policy Act (1969-1986)
• Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (1990)
• National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (as amended through 2000)

 

chARTERS

• Cultural Heritage Charters and Standards (JK Gillion)
• Cultural Heritage Policy Documents (The Getty)
• ERPANET Digital Preservation Charter (pdf)
• ICOMOS Charters
• Islamic Architecture, Art and Urbanism Textual Resources (MIT)

Sources of information

• ArchNet - United States Cultural Protection Legislation
• Federal Historic Preservation Case Law, 1966-1996 (Advisory Council on Historic Preservation)
• Law and Public Policy (National Trust for Historic Preservation)
• Laws, Regulations and Standards Related to Cultural Resources (NPS)
• Legislative and Congressional Affairs (NPS)
• THOMAS Legislative Information on the Internet (Library of Congress)

American Memory (Library of Congress)
Association of Research Libraries Electronic Atlas
Borchert Map Library (University of Minnesota)
Cultural Resource Mapping and GIS (NPS)

Digitizing Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps
Map Collection (University of Texas)

MapLink (quick index of USGS quadrangels)
Maps and Reference Materials (University of Iowa)
Rare Maps, Hargett Library (University of Georgia)
Sanborn Map Company (contact your institution for login and password)
Union List of Sanborn and other Fire Insurance Maps
U.S. Geological Survey
U.S.A Historic Sites

Maritime Information on the Internet
Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology

Research Resources (Marine Museum of the Great Lakes, Kingston, Canada)
National Maritime Historical Society
Schooner Ernestina

see also Traditional Trades/Crafts

Building Research Council (University of Illinois)
Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation (University of Melbourne)
Getty Conservation Institute
National Center for Preservation Technology and Training (NPS)
Robert Gordon University

Lime
Building Limes Forum
Lime Centre
Scottish Lime Centre Trust
Virginia Lime Works

Masonry
A Stone Upon a Stone (Australia)
About Stone, International Directory
International Masonry Institute
National Institute of Standards and Testing- Building Stone Test Wall
Dry Stone Conservancy
Dry Stone Walling Association of Canada
Dry Stone Walling Association of Great Britain
Dry Stone (Italy)
Dry Stone (Spain)
Drystone Architecture (France)
Scottish Stone Liaison Group
Stone Quarries and Beyond The Stone Wall Initiative

Wood
International Log Builders' Association
Timber Framers Guild

Center for the Advanced Study of the Visual Arts (National Gallery of Art)
The Getty Museum Research and Conservation

Historic Bethlehem Partnership
Indoor Air Quality in Museums and Archives
International Council of Museums
Museum Computer Network
Museum Management Program (NPS)
National Building Museum
National Museum of the American Indian
Smithsonian Institution

National Park Service Home Page
Archeology and Ethnography Program
Guiding Principles for Sustainable Design
Federal Preservation Institute
HABS/HAER Programs
Heritage Preservation Services
     American Battlefield Protection Program
     Certified Local Governments
     Cultural Resource Mapping and GIS
     Federal Agency Preservation Assistance Program
     Federal Historic Preservation Tax Incentives
     Historic Landscapes Initiative
     Historic Preservation Fund
     Historic Preservation Internship Training Program
     Historic Preservation Planning Program
     Historic Surplus Property Program
     National Historic Landmarks Assistance Initiative
     Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation
     Secretary of the Interior's Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties, 1995
     Technical Preservation Services
     Electronic Rehab
     Preservation Briefs
     Preservation Tech Notes
     Tribal Preservation Program
Learning Portal (don't ask Jeeves, ask the NPS!)

Legislative and Congressional Affairs
Maritime Preservation
National Center for Preservation Technology and Training
Southeast Archeological Center

American Cultural Resources Association
American Historical Association
Association for Preservation Technology
Aurora Coalition, Inc.
Barn Again! (National Trust for Historic Preservation)
Barn Again! State Programs
Caribbean Volunteer Expeditions
Coalition to Protect Maryland Burial Sites, Inc.
DOCOMOMO
Friends of Historic Preservation (Freetown Historical Commission)
Friends of Ohio Barns
Friends of Terra Cotta
Heritage Conservation Network
Historic Preservation Planning Alumni (Cornell)

International Preservation Trades Workshop
League of Historic American Theaters
Long Island Traditions

Masonry Conservation Research Group
Modern Committee (Los Angeles Conservancy)
National Clearinghouse for Educational Facilities
National Main Street Center (National Trust for Historic Preservation)
National Parks and Conservation Association
National Railway Historical Society
Old House Network

Preserve Historic Forsyth (Winston-Salem, NC)
Preservation Action
Preservation Directory
Preserve Historic Forsyth, Inc.
Preservation Trades Network
Preserve and Protect
Recent Past Preservation Network
Save America's Treasures
Society for Commercial Archeology
Society of Architectural Historians
Story Of My Home
Theatre Historical Society of America
Timber Framers Guild
Trust for Public Land
US/ICOMOS
Vernacular Architecture Forum
The Woodstock Preservation Alliance

possible sources of aid, conferences
• American Institute of Architects
• Association for Preservation Technology International
• Canon National Parks Science Scholars Program for the Americas
• Colorado Emerging Preservation Leaders: email Larry Walsh at info@coloradopreservation.org
• Diversity Scholarship (to attend a conference of the National Trust for Historic Preservation)

• E. Geoffrey and Elizabeth Thayer Verney Fellowship
• John Coolidge Student Fellowship
• Mildred Colodny Scholarship for the Study of Historic Preservation
• Society of Architectural Historians
• State Historic Preservation Offices
• Statewide Non Profit Organizations

possible sources of aid, education or research
• American Academy in Rome
• Academic Achievers Scholarship Foundation
• American Architectural Foundation
• American Association of University Women
• American Antiquarian Society
• American Institute of Architects (try your local or state chapter)
• Athenaeum of Philadelphia
• Mildred Colodny Scholarship for the Study of Historic Preservation

• College Art Association
• Garden Conservancy Marco Polo Stufano Fellowship
• Getty Grant Program
• Graham Foundation Carter Manny Award
• ICCROM Fellowships in Rome
• James Marston Fitch Charitable Trust
• King V. Hostick Award
• Larry J. Hackman Research Residency Program
• Samuel H. Kress Foundation
• National Trust Diversity Scholarship Program

• Newport Historical Society: Historic Essay Competition for Undergraduate College Students
• Quinque Fellows Program
• Smithsonian Institution
• Sally Kress Tompkins Fellowship
• United States Capitol Historical Society Fellowship

American Farmland Trust
Brookings Institution: Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy
Center of Excellence for Sustainable Communities
Joint Center for Sustainable Communities
LGC Growth Management
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
New Rules Project
Nonpoint Education for Municipal Officials (NEMO)
Planners Web Sprawl Guide
Sierra Club Challenge to Sprawl
Smart Growth Network
Sprawl Busters
Sprawl Watch Clearinghouse
Stateline.org
Sustainable Development Institute
Sustainable Measures
Transportation Action Network
Urban Land Institute
Vermont Forum on Sprawl

SHPO Sites (NPS)

National Register of Historic Places (unofficial)

 

Alabama (State)

Arkansas (State)

California (State)

Colorado  (State & National)

Connecticut (State contact)

Guam (US Territory, Historic Sites)

Illinois (State Historic Sites)

Indiana (State & National)

Kansas (State Historic Sites)

Maryland (State)

Massachusetts (State)

Michigan (State & National)

Minnesota (State)

Missouri (National)

Nevada (State)

New Hampshire (State)

New Jersey (National)

New Mexico (State & National)

New York (State & National)
North Carolina (National)

Pennsylvania (National & Landmark Property nominations)

South Dakota (State)

Virginia (State & National)

Wisconsin (National)