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Below is a selected bibliography of recent past publications sponsored by the National Park Service. Where available, links to the full text are provided. Most of the publications below can be ordered here.

A number of Preservation Briefs and Preservation Tech Notes published by the National Park Service's Technical Preservaiton Services branch discuss the repair and rehabilitation of 20th century architectural features and materials.

Preservation Brief Number 12 - The Preservation of Historic Pigmented Structural Glass (Vitrolite and Carrara Glass)

Preservation Brief Number 13 - The Repair and Thermal Upgrading of Historic Steel Windows

Preservation Brief Number 15 - Preservation of Historic Concrete
Problems and General Approaches

Preservation Brief Number 25 - The Preservation of Historic Signs

Preservation Tech Note - The Repair and Reproduction of Prismatic Glass Transoms

 

The National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service, has published guidance relating to recent past architecture:

National Register Bulletin Number 22 - Guidelines for Evaluating and Nominating Properties That Have Achieved Significance Within the Last Fifty Years

National Register Bulletin - Historic Residential Suburbs

 

Cultural Resource Management (CRM) Bulletin:

Preserving the Recent Past (vol. 18, no. 8, 1995)

Cultural Resources from the Recent Past (vol. 16, no. 6, 1993)

 

Preserving the Recent Past, Conference Proceedings, Chicago, 1995

Preserving the Recent Past 2, Conference Proceedings, Philadelphia, 2000

Twentieth Century Building Materials: History and Conservation (McGraw-Hill, 1995)

Preserving Modern Landscape Architecture (Spacemaker Press, 1999)

APT Bulletin Special Issue: Curtain Walls (vol. XXXII, no. 1, Association for Preservation Technology, 2001)

 

 
 
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