Selected Reading
Bullock, Orin M. Jr., The Restoration Manual. Norwalk, CT.: Silvermine
Publishers, 1966.
Burns, John A., editor. Recording Historic Structures. Washington,
D.C.: The AIA Press, 1989.
Howard, Hugh. How Old Is This House?. New York: Noonday Press,
1989.
Howe, Barbara J., Dolores A. Fleming, Emory L. Kemp, and Ruth Ann Overbeck.
Houses and Homes: Exploring Their History. Nashville, TN.: American
Association for State and Local History, 1987.
Judd, Henry A., Before Restoration Begins. Nashville, TN.: American
Association for State and Local History, 1973.
Kitchen, Judith L., Caring For Your Old House. Washington, D.C.:
The Preservation Press, 1991.
Seale, William, Recreating the Historic House Interior. Nashville,
TN.: American Association for State and Local History, 1979.
Secretary of the Interior's Standards for the Treatment of Historic
Properties. Washington, D.C.: Preservation Assistance Division, National
Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, 1992.
Secretary of the Interior's Standards and Guidelines for Architectural
and Engineering Documentation: HABS/HAER Standards. Washington, D.C.: HABS/HAER,
National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, 1990.
Acknowledgements
Travis C. McDonald, Jr., is an architectural historian who serves
as the Director of Architectural Restoration at Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest near
Lynchburg, Virginia. He respectively dedicates this work to three masters
of architectural investigation: Henry A. Judd, former Chief Historical
Architect of the National Park Service; Lee H. Nelson, former Chief, Preservation
Assistance Division NPS; and Paul E. Buchanan, former Director of Architectural
Research at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. The author gratefully
acknowledges the following professionals for their help in reviewing this
manuscript: Edward A. Chappell, Colonial Williamsburg; E. Blaine Cliver,
Preservation Assistance Division NPS; Stanley O. Graves, National Conference
of State Historic Preservation Officers; Bernard L. Herman, University
of Delaware; H. Ward Jandl, Preservation Assistance Division NPS; Hugh
C. Miller, Virginia State Historic Preservation Office; Orlando Ridout
V, Maryland Historical Trust; William Seale; and professional staff members
of the National Park Service. Timothy A. Buehner served as project coordinator
and Kay D. Weeksserved as project editor.
Washington, D.C. September, 1994
This publication has been prepared pursuant to the National
Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended, which directs the Secretary
of the Interior to develop and make available information concerning historic
properties. Technical Preservation Services (TPS), Heritage Preservation
Services Division, National Park Service prepares standards, guidelines,
and other educational materials on responsible historic preservation treatments
for a broad public.
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