Project Resources Overview
These resources supplement the documents available in the public area of the site with materials that have been developed by, and for the use of, project communities:
Project timeline and tasks. Program manuals and various resources packaged according to the broad sequence of events and activities typically undertaken by a Main Street project, from Start-Up to Wrap-Up.
Preservation resources. General preservation resources and specific technical references organized by building material and assembly types, and rehabilitation issues and strategies.
Suppliers and services. Building rehabilitation products, suppliers, consultants used by project communities.
Publications. Links to preservation publications, partner organizations and other internet resources. Please note that some items, such as the English Heritage documents, are available on the organization’s web site but are provided here for convenience, since some documents had to be assembled from separately downloaded files.
Using the resources
These pages consist mainly of direct links to the resource files themselves. In a few cases, though, we’ve prepared brief web pages dedicated to such topics as the preparation of design guidelines. However, be sure to check the full listing for each topic, since some of these pages are incomplete and may include only a portion of the available documents. The goal is to eventually provide a page introducing each cluster of resources rather than list of linked files.
Hovering your mouse over the link will indicate its nature; that is, whether it leads to another page on the program site (internal link), an external link leading to another site altogether, or directly to a downloadable file. In the latter case, it will provide the file type and size, which is important since filesizes range from just a few kilobytes up to thirty megabytes in a few cases. For large files or text documents, you may want to instruct your browser to download the file (Right-click > “Download Link to Disk” or similar) rather than attempt to load a large, or non-browser-supported, file format (such as PowerPoint files) directly into the browser window. An inactive list item means the resource is not yet available online.
Opening, viewing and editing the resources
PDF files are viewable with free Adobe Reader as well as other plug-ins and utilities. (Some PDFs will also allow you to copy text for use in other applications.)
RTF or “rich text” files contain some simple formatting and can be opened and edited in Microsoft Word or any text editor.
ZIP archives are compressed folders of items that can be extracted using utilities such as WinZip for Windows, Stuffit Expander for Macintosh and various utilities for Linux users. WinZip and Stuffit Expander are are available in free or tryout versions if they are not already installed on your system.
Can’t find what you’re looking for?
At some point, we hope to include a search function. In the meantime, if you know of resources that we should include, encounter broken links, or would like to suggest changes to the organization of the existing material, please let us know! Since much of this material has been provided by Main Street communities, we encourage you to submit materials for case studies and have provided a form for this purpose.
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