The Association is dedicated to preserving Great Lakes lighthouses and the history of the people who kept them by developing a new generation of preservationists.
The association offers workshops, cruises, and tours.
Seems to be more a preservation organization than an actual tourable historical site.
The California Garden and Landscape History Society (CGLHS) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to celebrating the beauty and diversity of California's gardens and cultural landscapes.
The society offers conference, lectures, and tours.
Preservation Partnership is an architecture firm in Denver, Colorado, specializing in historic preservation. It provides owners of historic properties with design and planning services for rehabilitation, adaptive use, and maintenance, and property management.
Business/organization, not historical site.
Established in 1980, the Center for Historic Preservation is a research and public outreach organization affiliated with the Department of Historic Preservation. The Center supports the undergraduate academic major in Historic Preservation by sponsoring lectures, workshops, symposia, and conferences; by organizing fieldwork and international study opportunities for students and faculty; and by sustaining activities that expand opportunities for students to participate in preservation-related research. To this end, the Center participates actively in local, regional and international preservation organizations. The Center also supports Historic Preservation activities by offering public programs; by undertaking cooperative research; and by providing professional services and technical assistance to organizations, property owners, and local governments and agencies.
The Intermuseum Conservation Association (ICA) is the oldest nonprofit regional conservation center in the United States, dedicated to the preservation of works of art and objects of cultural significance. ICA provides professional, high quality, and cost-effective services to collecting institutions, corporations, and the general public.
The Historic Preservation Training Center (HPTC) is dedicated to the safe preservation and maintenance of national parks or partner facilities by demonstrating outstanding leadership, delivering quality preservation services, and developing educational courses that fulfill the competency requirements of Service employees in the career fields of Historic Preservation Skills, Risk Management, Maintenance, and Planning, Design, and Construction.
An organization, not a specific historical site.
Karl Haglund, senior planner for the Metropolitan District Commission, and Renata von Tscharner, president of the Charles River Conservancy, cover the history of human management of the Charles River, beginning in colonial times and continuing to the present. They emphasize how the river has determined development and settlement patterns in the area. Their presentation includes slides.
This lecture is no longer available.
The Neighborhood Preservation Center is a project of the St. Mark's Historic Landmark Fund, and is dedicated towards helping and aiding organizations and citizens across New York with preservation and restoration projects dealing with both the natural and built environments. The center is housed in the 1901 Beaux Arts building, which was designed by Ernest Flag. The center is primarily a resource center which provides the public with meeting rooms, office space, and an online resource database and library, though the center also puts on educational events and exhibits from time to time.
The site offers database and library access, as well as information on upcoming events.
All regularly accessible resources are digital. Above listing was pre-existing.
The Lower Columbia Preservation Society was organized in the spring of 1998 in Astoria, OR, and seeks to "preserve, protect, and promote the historic houses and buildings in the lower Columbia region." The society provides a network of support for home and business owners interested in preservation and hosts a variety of educational programs for prospective preservationists.
The site offers an events calendar, a collection of articles about preservation written for the Daily Astorian newspaper, and an online database of past society newsletters.
Educational offerings are intended for owners of historical properties and preservation professionals.
The Okeechobee Main Street program is designed to improve all aspects of the Okeechobee downtown district. Its main goals are to improved economic management, strengthen public participation in downtown events, recruit new businesses, rehabilitate buildings and building facades, and expand parking for visitors. The organization has three main projects, the facade program which seeks to improve the look and feel of downtown through building restoration, the beautification program which improves upon landscaping downtown, and guidelines for the painting of murals downtown.
The site offers detailed information and documents regarding all organization programs, an events calendar, and links to visitor information regarding Okeechobee.
This is a community revitalization organization.