New Hampshire Old House & Barn Resource Directory New Hampshire Preservation Alliance 64 pages. Softcover.
$6 (+$1.50 shipping)

A new 2007 version of our popular guide to over 100 contractors and suppliers of preservation products and services for the Granite State.

Preserving Old Barns: Preventing the Loss of a Valuable Resource
John Porter and Francis Gilman
University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension 
Generously illustrated in color and black and white. Softcover. 62 pages. 
$15 (+$2 shipping)

Learn about the history and architectural features of New Hampshire's barns, structural repair and restoration, how to go about maintaining a barn, disassembling and reassembling a barn as well as additional resources and references.

A Building History of Northern New England
James Garvin, NH State Architectural Historian
University Press of New England
Illustrated. Softcover. 200 pages
$25 (+$2 shipping)

A handsome and useful book, extraordinarily well written. Written for the homeowner as well as the professional, the book explains original construction methods and materials, which often remain the most appropriate today. You owe it to yourself - and your historic structure - to read this before renovation or restoration.

Preserving Community Character: Preservation Planning Handbook for New Hampshire
New Hampshire Preservation Alliance
Black & white illustrations and photographs.  Softcover. 64 pages. 
$15 (+$2 shipping)

Practical advice, good models, links to further information on nearly every page regarding the functions and operations of historic districts and heritage commissions, various ordinances to manage growth and preservation tools such as surveys and easements

Guidelines for Porch Repair and Replacement: A Handbook for Property Owners
City of Portland Historic Preservation Office
25 pages. Black & white illustrations.
$7 (+$2 shipping)

This excellent guidebook is loaded with photos and easy to understand drawings and dimensional cross sections.  It is designed to help property owners and caretakers of historic homes with best practices of repair or replacement of a porch.

Painting Historic Exteriors: A Resource Guide
Cambridge Historical Commission
54 pages. Black & white illustrations.
$12 (+$2 shipping)

A guide to architectural styles and appropriate historic paint colors, as well as to all of the methods of application, use of multiple colors, accent colors. Lead abatement.  Bibliography.

House Histories: A guide to Tracing the Genealogy of Your Home
Sally Light 
300 pages. Softcover w/Black & white illustrations.
$16 (+$2 shipping)
A detailed, how-to guide to tracing the history of your house through physical evidence and paper records.

Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn:
The Connected Farm Buildings of New England
Twentieth Anniversary Edition
With a new preface by the author
Thomas C. Hubka
University Press of New England 225 pages.
Illustrated. Softcover.
$25 (+$2 shipping)

The twentieth anniversary edition of the classic architectural study of the connected farm buildings of New England. This book examines the stately and beautiful connected farm buildings made by nineteenth-century New Englanders that stand today as a living expression of a rural culture, offering insights into the people who made them and their agricultural way of life.

The book is a model of vernacular architecture scholarship.