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HOUSE RESTORATION sa HOUSE BUILDING & REMODELING x RESTORATION (HOUSE) xx HOUSE xx HOUSE BUILDING & REMODELING How to reap benifits from the Tax Reform Act of 1976 if you preserve, rehabilitate, or restore historic buildings. How to pay for a restoration. How to research an old house. Uncover the history of an old house to satisfy your curiosity and help in restoration. A look at rehabilitating old homes in large cities. Tips on choosing an area and the building, a look at financing, and a brief rundown on what's happening in some major US cities. A look at rehabilitating old inner city houses. Tips on how to select a house, choose a neighborhood, and a look at some of the ways to save money by doing the work yourself. Houseguide, a look at renovating old houses in urban areas. Covers how to find the money to finance the purchase and the rehabilitation. Looks at what can be accomplished through an addition. Suggestions on remodeling kitchens, the area where most rehab work starts. Also includes a guide to rehabilitation agencies in various cities. A look at "Shopsteading", a program for renovating commercial areas into street-level businesses with living spaces "over the shop". A look at what is available in bank mortgages for inner-city restoration. A special 19-page section on urban rehabilitation. Covers cosmetic changes, major structural alterations, and information on home energy. Eight pages show photos and floor plans of how two old houses were transformed into livable, modern homes. One was a 1935 Cape Cod, the second house was a boxy, two-story frame house. Building on the past. Special 24 page section shows how three old houses were restored. Restoration or renovation. Which details to keep and which to change. Clues to your home's past will help you decide. Includes tips on tracking down your home's history. A design system for partial rehabilitation of low-income housing. Includes a chart of 13 "rules" to control design costs. Housing rehabilitation standards. Ideas from winners of a national contest for the best housing rehabilitation standards from a nonprofit or public agency. How to plan a rehab housing program for highest impact and lowest cost. Looks at financing, need, politics, economic climate, and neighborhood expectations. Selective rehabilitation of housing units. A new system for covering in a step-by-step fashion the process of designing, budgeting, and carrying out the physical rehabilitation of housing units. Part 1. The "new discipline" of selective rehab. Selective rehabilitation of housing units. Part 2. Computerization, field inspection, work write-up, cost estimate. Selective rehabilitation of housing units. Part 3. How to bid a job. Selective rehabilitation of housing units. Part 4. Controlling a construction job. When and how to use architects and engineers for major housing rehabilitation projects. Current regulations and methods regarding lead abatement when renovating old housing. Alternatives to full-scale lead abatement in renovated housing. Restoring old houses. Part 1. How to get started. Restoring old houses. Part 2. Doors and windows. Restoring old houses. Part 3. Replacement parts. Restoring old houses. Part 4. Floors, walls and ceilings. Restoring old houses. Part 5. Stripping paint, when and how to do it. Restoring old houses. Part 6. Choosing finishes. A look at the remodeling done to a Queen Anne Victorian house in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Experts' examination of an 1890 Victorian house in St. Paul, Minnesota, and a discussion of the problems in modernizing it, along with suggestions for remodeling and improvements. Profile of the restoration of the Josiah Durkee house, a Greek Revival style, located in Waitsfield Vermont. Rebuilding a fire-damaged house. Tips on buying a burned house, renovating and reselling. Restoring brownstone facades. Techniques for repairing and replacing 19th-century architectural elements. Troublespots in 19th-century framing. What to watch for when rehabilitating a common 19th-century structure. Transforming an Iowa farmhouse. An indoor pool for thermal storage, and major structural repairs redeem this 19th-century house. Constructing a replica of the Jonathan Fairbanks house, the oldest wood-frame structure in North America, is described and illustrated. Church revival. How an architect saved an old New England church by converting it into a house. Includes information on installing and insulating a double-wall envelope for passive-solar heating. Tip on making a Victorian gable-end sunburst architectural feature. Second-story addition to a Victorian vacation house is described. Details of a laundry chute system noted. Resurrecting the William T. Bolton house (Pasadena, CA) which was designed by Charles and Henry Greene. Includes details for a Greene and Greene style wall lantern featuring leaded-glass. Seismic retrofits. Anchor bolts and shear walls are the way to beef up older homes in earthquake-prone areas. Restoring the east portico of Montgomery Place (Barrytown, NY). Some ingenious devices and a year's-worth of painstaking work are viewed. Tip on installing a "time capsule" when remodeling a house. Verandah verite. The truth about porches. Advice on restoring porches in the highly decorative style of the late 1800s. Dating vintage houses. Simple ways to trace the history of older homes. Classic revival. Strategies for updating older houses without sacrificing their vintage features. Rehabilitating old houses. Special 32 page section. Tips on selecting a house to rehab, residing, reroofing, installing porch columns, tax breaks, etc. A look at urban homesteading. How to convert a commercial building into a home. A look at several examples. Rebuilding after a fire. Some suggestions. Renovation versus restoration. How to determine if a house is a good candidate for restoration to its original appearance. A look at the Brooklyn Brownstone built in 1886 and restored by the Everett Ortners. How an old (1882) schoolhouse in Lyndon, Kentucky, was restored and transformed into a home. A look at the restoration of an Italian Villa (ca. 1850) in New Haven, Connecticut. A look at the restoration of Haw Branch Plantation in Amelia, Virginia. A look at the restoration of a Victorian Octagon house in Hudson, New York (ca. 1860). A look at the restoration of a Queen Anne house, the Hanger House, in the Quapaw Quarter of Little Rock, Arkansas, (built in 1889). A look at the various styles of sawn wood ornamentation used on Victorian homes. Includes tips on restoring and recreating sawn wood ornamentation. A look at the restoration of a pre-Civil War mansion in Hampton, Illinois. A look at the work involved in preserving the ornate wood trim of a Queen Anne style house in the Summit Hill district of St. Paul, Minnesota. Renovation of a Victorian Italianate house (built in 1874) in the Riverside District of Covington, Kentucky. Restoring a frame house exterior. Description of one man's work on a Queen Anne Victorian house in St. Paul, Minnesota. A look at the restoration of a Federal-style house which dates from 1780-1790 and other structures in the Thompson Triangle area of Charlestown, Massachusetts. A look at the restoration of a Greek Revival home (ca. 1830) in Malden, New Brunswick, Canada. A look at the five-story brownstone in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn and how its restoration enlightened its owner about the problems of getting insurance faced by owners of restored homes. Re-creating Victorian "gingerbread" trim. Preserving exterior woodwork. A look at some restoration at Lyndhurst. Guidelines for rehabilitating old buildings. Restoring old (1870-1920) storefronts. A look at what was representative of commercial architecture and the graphics of the late 19th and early 20th century. The restoration of an 1852 up-country Greek Revival house with verandah in Cobb County, Georgia described. The American Farmhouse. How to restore a 19th century farmhouse with authenticity. Reclamation of an 1899 Queen Anne style Victorian house in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, described. Description of the restoration of a double porticoed Jeffersonian Colonial house built in 1824. A look at the restoration of an 1890's Queen Anne Victorian mansion in Vallejo, California. Straightening up an old building. Detailed description of how a two-story wooden pottery in Ithaca, N.Y. (ca. 1840) was reconstructed. Emphasis is on how the bowed walls were brought into plumb. A look at the restoration of a stone and frame farmhouse in northwest Illinois (ca. 1865). A look at restoring a 12-room Second Empire house in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Conversion from a student tenement to a townhouse. The Interpretive Restoration. Part 1. Suggestions on how to restore the "ordinary" old house. Looks at the distinction between reversible and irreversible work and guidelines on how to proceed with "interpretive restoration". The Interpretive Restoration. Part 2. A look at how Clem Labine applied the principles in the restoration of the dining room in his 1883 brownstone in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn, NY. A look at the restoration of a Federal style Greystone house, ca. 1831, in Cooperstown, NY. A look at the restoration of a Mansard home in the Lafayette Square district of St. Louis, Missouri, an 8-room townhouse built in 1877. A look at the restoration of a Carpenter Gothic farmhouse in Colfax, North Carolina. A look at the restoration of the houses in the 1500 block of West Jackson Blvd., Chicago, Illinois. Rejuvenating a Queen Anne house, built in 1894, in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. A look at Smedley's Ice Cream Parlor in Silverton, Colorado, that was built and furnished from a 19th century pattern book and the Old-House Journal catalog. Home-made gingerbread. How an old nondescript farmhouse was transformed into a Victorian home. Emphasis is on the construction of an ornamental picket fence. New threat to old houses: technological trashing (the conspicous display of energy gadgets). Comments about the architectural enhancement of the old farmhouse described in "Home-made gingerbread" (Apr 1980) and a look at the philosophies of restoration. A look at the restoration of an 1859 Victorian house in Jewett, Texas. A look at hazards and misfortunes in retrofitting an old house to make it more energy efficient. Restoration basics. Part 1. An outline of practical and economical steps that will result in the sensitive rehabilitation of old buildings. Restoration basics. Part 2. Roofing: repair or replace? Restoration basics. Part 3. Evaluating the exterior. How to examine siding, trim, foundation and porches. Restoring a Greek Revival house at 5 Crown Street, Worcester MA. Is it old or antique? How to be sensitive to the status of a house before starting to "remodel". Restoration basics. Part 6. Energy-saving fundamentals. Restoration basics. Part 7. A review of the standards for rehabilitation issued by the US Secretary of the Interior. Restoration basics. Part 8. The 10 basic principles for sensitive rehabilitation. A Victorian dream come true. Description of the renovation of an 87 year old house in Springfield Mass. by James and Meridith Boone. The house on Pleasant Street. Restoration with patience instead of money. Rodney and Lynn Poling restore an 1835 Victorian. How to make "gingerbread" wood ornaments to decorate porches, roof lines, etc. Tips on taking photos of a house restoration. A beginner's guide to federal income tax credits for historic-building rehabilitation. Guidelines to planning a house restoration. Part 1. Guidelines to planning a house restoration. Part 2. Rescuing homestead or farmstead outbuildings. Some tips. SPECIAL ISSUE on commercial building rehabilitation. Drying-in and drying-out. Advice on dealing with water and other damage following a hurricane or flood. Bond-beam construction. Detailed description of a major reinforced-masonry seismic-resistant retrofit for an earthquake-damaged Victorian house. Financing old-house restoration in the 1990s. A guide to sources of funding. Mastering the art of architectural salvage. Survival guide. The best advice from 20 years of OHJ. (1) Where to begin a renovation. (2) Cleaning tips. (3) Saving old plaster. (4) Basic tools. (5) Do-it-yourself scaffolds. (6) Wood floor care and repair. (7) Stripping paint. Poking into the past. An investigator explains how to uncover the historic details about an old house. Stabilizing a structurally sagging outbuilding. Tips on reinforcing roof, walls, etc. Pennies from heaven. A look at new tax relief programs that benefit restorers of owner-occupied homes and a discussion of what it takes to qualify. Dating an old house. How to read the physical evidence, both architectural and documentary. Salvage savvy. How to shop the salvage market for period materials to use when restoring an old house. Advice on finding millwork, lighting, flooring, plumbing, glass, hardware, stone and tile. Includes suggestions for searching Internet sites and provides a list of dealersin architectural antiques. Hot on the paper trail. How to conduct an exhaustive search to learn as much about your house's past as possible. Old house restoration. Making a house a home. Tips on planning for a renovation, remodeling, or improvement project to an existing house. Renovator's handbook. Part 1. A guide to rehabilitating houses built before 1914. Renovator's handbook. Part 2. A guide to rehabilitating houses built between 1914 and 1945. Renovator's handbook. Part 3. A guide to rehabilitating houses built after 1945. A look at rehabilitation of old houses. Tips on finding the right house, organizing the work and sources for more information. | |||||||||
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