Do You Have Resources to Help Me Preserve My Historic Home?

National Trust Resources, Programs, and Publications

The National Trust offers booklets on issues faced by owners of historic homes.  The New Old House Starter Kit is full of helpful hints about restoring and rehabilitating old houses.  It includes information about researching a house, guidelines on hiring professionals, a bibliography, and guides to architectural and landscape styles. Other booklets include Appraising Historic Properties, Buyer’s Guide to Older and Historic Houses, and Design Review in Historic Districts. For more information about these publications, call Preservation Books at 202-588-6296 or please visit www.preservationbooks.org

The National Trust provides information on many aspects of preservation including historic home ownership.  The information sheet about how to preserve your historic home, as well as other free information sheets about plaques for historic homes, moving historic buildings, and mail order homes, are examples of some of the information sheets the National Trust has available.  To contact the National Trust, call 202-588-6000, send an e-mail to info@nthp.org, or please visit www.preservationnation.org/resources/faq/

National Trust Insurance Services(NTIS), administered by the firm of Maury, Donnelly & Parr, specializes in insuring historic properties, both commercially and personally owned.  NTIS can help owners of historic buildings and homes evaluate their insurance needs and obtain the coverage necessary.  For more information, please call 1-866-269-0944, e-mail info@nationaltrust-insurance.org or please visit www.nationaltrust-insurance.org/

Plan to attend our National Preservation Conference, which is held each fall.  For more information, call 202-588-6100 or please visit www.preservationnation.org/resources/training/npc/

The National Trust Librarycontains information on historic preservation, restoration, mail order houses, and many other related subjects.  To contact the National Trust Library, write to the National Trust for Historic Preservation Library Collection, Hornbake Library, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-7011 or call 301-405-6320.  You can also search the library on-line at www.lib.umd.edu/NTL/ntl.html

Join the National Trust– founded as a nonprofit membership organization in 1949, the National Trust for Historic Preservation provides leadership, education, advocacy, and resources to help people save the places that matter to them. Enjoy Membership Benefits – from free and discounted admissions to 200+ historic places nationwide to a subscription to our award-winning magazine, Preservation, to special access online for case studies and reference materials, we offer a wide range of benefits for preservationists, whether you are a first-time homebuyer, a staff member of a preservation organization, or just love historic buildings. Please visit www.preservationnation.org/membership

National Trust Forum is a National Trust membership for preservation professionals and volunteer leaders.  As a Forum member, you receive the Forum Journal, Forum News, member discounts on Preservation Books, access to the password-protected website Forum Online, as well as full membership privileges to the National Trust.  Forum members have the ability to communicate on-line with other preservation professionals, are kept up to date on the latest preservation issues, and have access to a variety of preservation resources.  For more information about the Forum program, or to become a member, call 202-588-6296, or please visit www.preservationnation.org/forum/