National Park Service, Department of the Interior
- The Secretary of the Interior’s Standards and Guidelines: A widely used guide to best practices for planning and conducting work on historic properties.
- Free Online Training: Learn more about how to preserve, restore, and rehabilitate historic buildings with these free web-based training programs.
- Technical Preservation Services: Online technical information for preserving, rehabilitating, restoring and reconstructing historic buildings.
- Preservation Briefs: A series of 50 publications about a variety of technical preservation topics.
- National Register Publications: Various publications, including the National Register Bulletin series on evaluating, documenting, and listing different types of historic places.
- Federal Tax Credit Programs: A 20% income tax credit is available for rehabilitation of qualifying income-producing historic buildings.
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
- State Environmental Quality Review (SEQR). In New York State, most projects or activities proposed by a state agency or unit of local government (e.g., infrastructure expansion), and all discretionary approvals (e.g., subdivision approval) from a state agency or unit of local government, require an environmental impact assessment as prescribed by SEQR.
- SEQR may require a Full Environmental Assessment Form (FEAF), or a Short Environmental Assessment Form (Short EAF) for a proposed action impacting the character or quality of important historic, archaeological, architectural or aesthetic resources.
New York State Department of State
- Legal Aspects of Municipal Historic Preservation: Guidance for setting up a local landmark ordinance or zoning overlay in New York State.
- Transfer of Development Rights (TDR): An overview of TDR, an effective and flexible land use tool that can help municipalities preserve historic resources, open space, and farmland.
- The SEQR Handbook: A practical reference for procedures prescribed by State Environmental Quality Review (SEQR).
- Local Government Online Interactive Training Course: Historic Preservation
- Local Government Online Interactive Training Course: Introduction to SEQR
New York State Historic Preservation Office
- Historic Resource Surveys: Surveys are a basic tool for identifying and documenting historic sites.
- Tax Credit Programs: Owners of historic income-producing real property, owner-occupied homes, and barns may qualify for an income tax credit for rehabilitating the property.
- Technical Assistance: General preservation principles to consider when planning to do work on a historic property.
- Certified Local Government Program: Offers special grants and services for qualifying municipalities to support local preservation activities and long-term preservation goals.
- Sponsoring a Historic District Nomination Guide: Explains the steps and process of sponsoring a new historic district nomination.
National Trust for Historic Preservation
- Introduction to Preservation Easements: Overview of easements as a preservation tool.
- Issues in Preservation: Explore how preservation work intersects current issues like sustainability, inclusion, and real estate.
- ReUrbanism Initiative: Learn why adaptive reuse should be the default, and demolition a last resort.
- Preservation Books: Links to publications offered for sale by the National Trust for Historic Preservation that address specific preservation issues.
