Researching Your House

Researching, Restoring, Recapturing the History of Your House, & Perhaps, Registering It

General  

• Architecture of the [South Shore] Estuary (Long Island Traditions)
• Glossary of Preservation Law Terms (National Trust for Historic Preservation)
• Historic Preservation Links (U.S. Interior Department.  National Park Service.  National Register of Historic Places)
• Historic Preservation Office  (New York State.  Office of Parks, Recreation, & Historic Preservation)
• House & Building Histories  (Cyndi's List)
• House Detective:  Finding History in Your Home [brochure] (U.S.  Smithsonian Institution.  National Museum of Ameircan History)
• Home Style Guide, by Jackie Craven  (About.com)
• House Styles:  A Guide to Residential Architecture (About.com)
• How Old is Your House?:  A Guide to Finding the Age of Your Old House, by Jackie Craven  (About.com)
• How to Complete the National Register Registration Form  (U.S.  Interior Department.  National Parks Deparment.  National Register)
• Links to Architectural Conservation Organizations and Resources (Restore.org)
• Federal Preservation Laws (National Trust for Historic Preservation)
• Frequently Asked Questions  (U.S.  Interior Department.  National Park Service.  National Register of Historic Places)
• Local Preservation Laws (National Trust for Historic Preservation)
• NYS Historic Preservation Office Message (New York State.  Office of Parks , Recreation, and Historic Preservation)
• Preservation Briefs (U.S.  National Park Service.  Technical Preservation Services)  - provides a pull-down menu, or you can scan down and click from a list of links; covers practical aspects of a wide range of preservation issues and topics
• Preservation League of New York State (The League)
• Researching n Historic Property (U.S.  Interior Department.  National Park Service.  National Register Bulletin)
• State Preservation Laws (National Trust for Hisotric Preservation)
• Teaching with Historic Places (U.S. Interior Department.  National Register of Historic Places)

Long Island, N.Y. - Specific

• Endangered (Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities)
• SEQRA as a Tool for Historic Preservation  (Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities)
• SEQR:  Environmental Impact Assessment in New York State (New York State.  Department of Environmental Conservation)

Suffolk County, N.Y. - Specific

• Researching Your House (Patchogue-Medford Library) - resources at Patchogue-Medford Library, nearby, & further afield (online brochure) 
• Researching the History of Your House (Suffolk County.  Clerk's Office.  Historic Documents Library) - a Suffolk County, NY focus
• Researching the History of Your House [key points and practical advice given at a lecture, by Sharon Pullen, Suffolk County [N.Y.] Archivist, held at South Country Public Library] (Bellport.com.  The Village News.  At Home)
• Torrens (Suffolk County Clerk's Office) - a former system of alternative title registration, when a thorough title search failed to locate clear essential evidence of transfers, it was sometimes officially o.k.'d and registered to permit a transfer (though it impiled incomplete or missing information)