Name/Title
Buying Time for Heritage: How to Save an Endangered Historic PropertyEntry/Object ID
2008.006.040Description
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. ; softcoverCollection
Historic Charleston Foundation LibraryAcquisition
Accession
2008.006.Source or Donor
New Library Books Purchased (2008)Acquisition Method
PurchasedCredit Line
Restricted Book/Archives Acquisition Fund PurchaseLexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Primary Object Term
BookNomenclature Sub-Class
Other DocumentsNomenclature Class
Documentary ObjectsNomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication ObjectsSearch Terms
Fine arts, Architecture, Preservation and restoration of architectural monuments, Economic aspects, Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration--United States, Historic preservation--United StatesBook Details
Author
Howard, J. Myrick, 1953-Publisher
Preservation North CarolinaDate Published
2007Call No.
NA111 .H69 2007ISBN
9780807858684LCCN
2007030212Notes
Copy No.: 0Location
Category
PermanentDate
February 7, 2023General 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.appCreate Date
November 6, 2008Updated By
sferguson@historiccharleston.orgUpdate Date
April 5, 2023