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Heating, Ventilating, and Cooling Historic Buildings


Historic buildings are not easily adapted to house modern precision mechanical systems. Careful planning must be provided early on to ensure that decisions made during the design and installation phases of a new system are appropriate.
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The Preservation and Repair of Historic Log Buildings


Log buildings, because of their distinct material, physical structure, and sometimes their architectural design, can develop their own unique deterioration problems.
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Protecting Cultural Landscapes


Cultural landscapes can range from thousands of acres of rural tracts of land to a small homestead with a front yard of less than one acre. Like historic buildings and districts, these special places reveal aspects of our country's origins and development through their form and features...
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The Preservation of Historic Barns


From the days when Thomas Jefferson envisioned the new republic as a nation dependent on citizen farmers for its stability and its freedom, the family farm has been a vital in the American consciousness. As the main structures of farms, barns evoke a sense of...
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The Maintenance, Repair and Replacement of Historic Cast Stone


The practice of using cheaper and more common materials on building exteriors in imitation of more expensive natural materials...
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The Preservation and Repair of Historic Clay Tile Roofs


Clay tile has one of the longest life expectancies among historic roofing materials-generally about 100 years, and often several hundred. Yet, a regularly scheduled maintenance program is program is necessary to prolong the life of any roofing system.
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The Preservation and Repair of Historic Stained and Leaded Glass


Glass is a highly versatile medium. In its molten state, it can be spun, blown, rolled, cast in any shape, and given any color. Once cooled, it can be polished, beveled, chipped, etched, engraved, or painted. Of all the decorative effects possible with glass, however, none is more...
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Air Cleaning


In tighter, more energy-efficient buildings, pollutants are not as readily removed by natural ventilation. Filters or electronic air cleaners trap particulates (tiny particles) from the air flowing through them and recirculate the cleaned air back to the building interior.
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Preserving Historic Ornamental Plaster


From the time America struggled for a new identity as a constitutional republic--and well into the 20th century--its architecture and its decorative detailing remained firmly rooted in the European classicism of Palladio,
Wren, and Mansart.

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Smoke Problems


If a stove or fireplace is letting smoke into the house first make sure that the flue gas dampers are open. If the dampers are open, then the best way to solve the immediate problem is to open a window or door on the first floor or basement while at the same time close all openings in the upper parts of the house.
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