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CHC's Preservation Links |
The following is a list of links that can help you find out more about historic preservation, local history, architectural history, and genealogy. This is not a comprehensive list of available web resources, but it's a useful place to start.
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| Preservation and History | Research and Library | Architecture and Building | Heritage Tourism |
Preservation and History Links:
Community Preservation Initiative, Massachusetts Exec. Office of Environmental Affairs
Historic New England (formerly the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities)
Massachusetts Archives
online
Massachusetts vital records database
Massachusetts Historical Commission Homepage
New:
Massachusetts Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credit
Massachusetts
Preservation Projects Fund
Massachusetts Historical Society
Mass Moments, a daily almanac of Massachusetts history. A new project by the Mass Foundation for the Humanities.
National
Park Service
National Register
of Historic Places
Secretary
of the Interior's Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties
Federal Historic
Preservation Tax Incentives
Historic Preservation Easements
Technical
Preservation Services
Longfellow National
Historic Site -- Friends of
the Longfellow House
Links
to the Past - Tools for Teaching
Teaching
with Historic Places
Heritage
News newsletter
National Trust for Historic Preservation Homepage
PRESERVATION
Mass (formerly Historic Massachusetts, Inc.)
PreservationMass
Consultants Directory
Somerville Old House Organization
Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society
American Canadian Genealogical Society
Boston Public Library
Leventhal Map Center:
1877
birdseye view
1879
birdseye view (East Cambridge)
Bostonian Society/Boston Historical Society & Museum
Brief Biographies of American Architects, Who Died between 1897-1947
"Commonwealth Communities," City of Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Harvard Crimson online (searchable archives)
Harvard
Map Collection
1833 Wadworth
plan
1854 Walling map
1873 Hopkins atlas
1885/88 Sanborn
atlas
1886 Hopkins atlas
1894 Bromley atlas
1900 Sanborn
atlas
1903 Bromley atlas
1916 Bromley atlas
Harvard/Radcliffe Online Historical Reference Shelf
Harvard Square Library With the full text of Rev. Abiel Holmes' History of Cambridge of 1801 and a history of the First Parish church in Harvard Square.
Library of Congress
American
Memory Collections
America's
Story (kids' page)
Middlesex South Registry of Deeds
M.I.T. Archives & Special Collections: MIT History
New England Historical and Genealogical Society
National Archives and Records Administration -- Boston Regional Office
Sibley's Private Journal is now online and searchable (journal of John Langdon Sibley, 1846-1882)
USGenWeb Project: Middlesex County Massachusetts Genealogy
Wardmaps.com
1930
Bromley atlas
Architecture and Building Links:
Architectural Education Resource Center
Center for Understanding the Built Environment
Christopher Hail's Cambridge Buildings and Architects database
Preservation Sourcebook/PreservationWeb
Society
of Architectural Historians Homepage
Brief Biographies
of American Architects Who Died Between 1897 and 1947
Cambridge African American Heritage Trail
Cambridge During the American Revolution
Cambridge Parks, Playgrounds & Reservations map
Jewish Cambridge if site is not working, try Jewish Immigrant Cambridge
Longfellow National Historic Site
Massachusetts Cultural Council
Museum of African American History
Origins of Cambridge Street Names