Blog Additions - NYS Preservation Organizations and "Reading Room" Resources

As promised in previous posts, I've continued to add new links to the sidebar, most notably, to the "Historic Preservation Organizations - New York State" and "Reading Room" sections.

Additions to the "Historic Preservation Organizations - New York State" section include links to the:

-- Historic House Trust, a not-for-profit organization that operates in tandem with the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation to "provide essential support for houses of architectural and historic significance spanning 350 years of New York City life." The houses are located in city parks and are open to the public.

-- Sunnyside Gardens Preservation Alliance, a web site for and about the historic Sunnyside Gardens neighborhood in western Queens, NYC that is "recognized internationally as a model of urban planning."

-- Preservation Association of the Southern Tier, a private, not-for-profit membership and preservation advocacy organization serving Greater Binghamton, Broome, and Tioga Counties in New York State's southern tier.

Additions to the "Reading Room" section include links to many of the publications on the National Park Service's preservation planning site, such as the Cultural Resources Partnership Notes:

-- Issues Paper: Conservation Districts, which encompasses "two short essays by Robert E. Stipe and by Carole Zellie (1993; revised 1998)."

-- Local Preservation Reference Shelf, an "annotated historic preservation bibliography by the National Alliance of Preservation Commissions (1999)."

-- Subdivision Regulations and Historic Preservation, an article by Stephen A. Morris (1992; revised 1998).

-- Zoning and Historic Preservation, an article by Stephen A. Morris (1989; revised 1998).

I've also added links to other publications posted, and in some cases prepared by, the National Park Service:

-- Preservation Planning: Ensuring a Future for Our Past, a thematic issue of the National Park Service publication CRM.

-- History on the Line: Testimony in the Cause of Preservation, which presents selected "testimony delivered before the Historic Preservation Review Board and other public officials in the District of Columbia between 1986 and 1996. The book can easily serve as a guide and model for preparing testimony on significance issues before government review boards throughout the country. 114 pages [.pdf]. 1998."

-- Guidelines for Local Surveys: A Basis for Preservation Planning (formerly National Register Bulletin 24); offers "guidance for communities, organizations, federal and state agencies, and individuals undertaking surveys of historic resources and incorporating survey results into planning. 112 pages. 1985."

-- Strategies for Protecting Archeological Sites on Private Lands, an online update of the earlier print publication Protecting Archeological Sites on Private Lands, written by Susan L. Henry, with Geoffrey M. Gyrisco, Thomas H. Veech, Stephen A. Morris, Patricia L. Parker, and Jonathan P. Rak. Both publications include "useful information on strategies for protecting archeological sites that can be used in local communities when there is no federal involvement in a project. Targeted to professional and avocational archeologists, local preservation commissions, planners, and developers. 133 pages. 1993."

I will write more about these resources in future posts.