Buying Time for Heritage
How to Save an Endangered Historic Property

J. Myrick Howard (Author)

9781469677002

Paperback / softback, published 31 October 2023

344 pages, 133 colour photos, 2 tables
22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.272 kg

Buying Time for Heritage has been a classic guide for preserving historic properties since 2007, and the revised edition is an essential preservation tool. . . . Targeted at individuals and organizations that take a role in preserving historic properties, this handsomely illustrated book will also serve as a text for students of historic preservation."—History News Magazine

What does it take to save endangered historic properties? This practical guide builds on decades of historic preservation experience to provide readers with legal, financial, political, and technical tools and strategies to be more effective preservationists. Myrick Howard makes clear that large sums of money are not necessarily needed to save endangered historic properties, but knowledge and passion are essential. This book shows how preservation-minded neighbors and organizations can succeed with only modest resources and rather than clash with developers, can become developers themselves for community benefit. Howard draws on case studies from forty-five years of successful work leading Preservation North Carolina, with lessons that are applicable coast to coast.

This richly illustrated, fully revised and redesigned second edition includes detailed projects to renovate vacant houses in working-class neighborhoods; reflections on addressing racial equity through preservation; an expanded section on using preservation easements; and summaries of revolving fund programs around the country. Buying Time for Heritage is an indispensable resource for those looking to save the special places of our collective past.