Buying Time for Heritage: How to Save an Endangered Historic Property

Name/Title

Buying Time for Heritage: How to Save an Endangered Historic Property

Entry/Object ID

2008.006.040

Description

As part of efforts to save endangered properties and encourage downtown and neighborhood revitalization, many of the nation's most successful historic preservation and downtown development organizations have become actively involved in real estate. This book explains how one nonprofit organization, Preservation North Carolina, has creatively employed common real estate strategies to save more than 500 endangered historic properties from destruction. Contents include: Why Historic Preservation Matters/Making the Case for Historic Preservation -- Real Estate is the Name of the Game/Why Preservationists Need to Know and Understand Real Estate -- Working with Endangered Properties/How Preservation North Carolina Works with Property -- Creating Alternatives to Acquisition/Using Others' Money and Time to Do Your Work -- Going to the Mat for a Property/When Purchase is the Only Alternative -- The Architectural Animal Shelter/Marketing Endangered Properties -- Closing the Deal While Protecting the Property/The Delicate Balance Between the Ideal and the Achievable -- Doing the Right thing and Staying True to the Building/Finding a Balance Between Purity and Flexibility -- The Functional Nonprofit Preservation Organization/The Need for a Strong Staff and a Supportive Board -- A Case Study/Armstrong Apartments in Gastonia -- When Success is Elusive/Dealing with Disasters and Near-Misses -- Protection Without Ownership/Using Easements to Protect Properties That Are Not for Sale -- How to Deal with Institutions/Leveraging your Knowledge and Contacts to Save Institutional Buildings -- Complex and Challenging Projects/Creating a Market for Unusual Properties -- Building Relocation, Victory or Defeat/Moving Structures May or May Not be Good Preservation -- Museums and Stewardship Properties/What to Do With Truly Special Properties -- Partnerships for Preservation/Partnering Can Make Large Projects Possible -- The People of Preservation/Preservationists as Social Capital viii, 187 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm. ; softcover

Collection

Historic Charleston Foundation Library

Acquisition

Accession

2008.006.

Source or Donor

New Library Books Purchased (2008)

Acquisition Method

Purchased

Credit Line

Restricted Book/Archives Acquisition Fund Purchase

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

Fine arts, Architecture, Preservation and restoration of architectural monuments, Economic aspects, Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration--United States, Historic preservation--United States

Book Details

Author

Howard, J. Myrick, 1953-

Publisher

Preservation North Carolina

Place Published

Location

Raleigh, NC

Date Published

2007

Call No.

NA111 .H69 2007

ISBN

9780807858684

LCCN

2007030212

Notes

Copy No.: 0

Location

Location

Building

Missroon Library

Category

Permanent

Date

February 7, 2023

General Notes

Note

Notes: Preservation North Carolina ; Chapel Hill, N.C. : Distributed by University of North Carolina Press, c2007. Includes index. By J. Myrick Howard. Restricted Book Fund purchase.

Created By

admin@catalogit.app

Create Date

November 6, 2008

Updated By

sferguson@historiccharleston.org

Update Date

April 5, 2023