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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 good place to start.
Choose a category or browse the entire list:
| Preservation and History | Research and Library | Architecture and Building | Miscellaneous |
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 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
Technical
Preservation Services
Longfellow National
Historic Site -- 200th Birthday Tribute
3/25 -- Friends of
the Longfellow House
Working
on the Past in Local Historic Districts, resource guide
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.)
New! PreservationMass
Consultants Directory
Somerville Old House Organization
Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society
American Canadian Genealogical Society
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
Map Collection
1885/88 Sanborn
atlas
1900 Sanborn
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Harvard/Radcliffe Online Historical Reference Shelf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
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
Boston College's virtual exhibit on the life of Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill, Jr.
Massachusetts Cultural Council
Mount Auburn Cemetery's web site