Well-Preserved The Ontario Heritage Foundation's Manual of Principles and Practice for Architectural Conservation

Well-Preserved is the book you need if, say, you're an architect working with an owner of an old house, or some historic frontages on a main street, or an old industrial waterfront. But it's also the book you need if you're the owner and you need to figure out what your architect just told you about your lovingly crafted woodwork -- or your leaking roof. Perhaps you're the contractor who needs to do the work right the first time, every time. Or you're the student wanting to know where to look for the histories that account for what your community looks like. Or you need to understand the principles for historic preservation, architectural conservation, cultural heritage, building maintenance, environmental planning, and the like. The book is a wide-ranging catalog of what's interesting and important about old buildings and heritage landscapes, what to do with them, how to do those things right, and how to learn more in order to do better. It's extensively illustrated, with a built-in set of principles and with a large digest of techniques and information resources to help you make your own how-to manual, from planning to painting. Well-Preserved is a practical common reference for the many people who appreciate and work on historic buildings, whether grand or commonplace. The cultural heritage of architecture, streets, and landscapes is a non-renewable resource -- conserving and maintaining it is good for the environment, good for your communities, and when done well, pretty good-looking.Fram, Mark is the author of 'Well-Preserved The Ontario Heritage Foundation's Manual of Principles and Practice for Architectural Conservation', published 2003 under ISBN 9781550463866 and ISBN 1550463861.