You don’t have to face renovation alone. These are a small sample of the associations you can reach out to for assistance with your renovation. If you have an association near you, please let us know and we’ll add them to the list.
- Baltimore City Historic Society
- Athenaeum of Philadelphia
- Historic House Trust – New York City
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania
- National Parks Service – Technical Preservation Services
- New York Historical Society
- Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
- The Bostonian Society
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For the technical side of insulation retrofits and stuff, I benefited a lot from building science, fine homebuilding, green building advisor. This paper on insulation is particularly great. http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy12osti/54163.pdf
That is a lovely resource! Thanks for sharing!