Preservation Toolkit
Before you begin working to save or adaptively reuse a place that matters to you, arm yourself with the information from The Preservation Toolkit. You'll learn how to plan your project, fund it, get public support, and celebrate your work!
Resources for Rural Oregon
This rural resources hub provides quick links to FAQs, guides, suggestions for addressing housing needs, planning for natural disasters, advice for saving heritage barns, and links to access funding and programs that support rural housing, utilities, businesses, and more.
Preservation FAQ
Oregon's Most Endangered Places
Restore Oregon works with communities, individuals, and friends groups to help them save places that matter most to them. Learn more about these places and how you can get help with a place, or space, you love.
Conservation Easements
Preserve your property in perpetuity--that means forever! A conservation easement is the only legal way to guarantee a property's protection from demolition or incompatible alteration in Oregon. Learn more about the benefits of this program and how to get started.
Public Policy
As Oregon's only statewide preservation advocacy organization, Restore Oregon plays a key role in advocating for good preservation policy on both the state and national levels. Learn more about our effort and how you can get involved.
Save Legacy Businesses
Through in-depth research and outreach, our special report, Oregon's Intangible Heritage: Supporting the Preservation of Legacy Businesses, offers a clear analysis of current legacy business assistance programs, a summary of our data and outreach, and recommendations for establishing a statewide legacy business program.
Save Oregon's Heritage Barns
With an estimated 11,400 barns built prior to 1960, Oregon needs to identify and protect these rural buildings, structures, and landscapes that define its agricultural heritage. The Restore Oregon board formed the Heritage Barns Taskforce in 2011 to lead its efforts in that field. Find tools and resources to keep Oregon's barns for the next 100 years.
Save Mid-Century Modern Architecture
The importance of preserving these homes is increasingly relevant as they pass the 50-year threshold for eligibility in the National Register of Historic Places. By focusing our attention on the adaptability of mid-century design, we create opportunities to blend our modern lifestyles with the invaluable pursuit of preserving our region’s unique architectural heritage.
Technical Assistance
Your home or building may be historic, but when it comes to information and resources, you need up-to-date technical advice. Our professionally trained preservationists keep up with the latest developments in restoration and reuse.
Preservation Business Directory
Older homes and revitalization projects require specialized services, materials, and attention by architects, contractors, and craftspeople. The Preservation Business Directory helps connect property owners with the service providers that understand historic buildings.
The DeMuro Awards
Restore Oregon celebrates those doing the work to save Oregon's places with an annual DeMuro Award.
Historic Resources Inventory Toolkit
You can't save what you don't know you have! This toolkit will help you take inventory of your communities historic places.
FieldNotes Magazine
FieldNotes, our quarterly magazine, features stories about great restorations and endangered landmarks, architectural styles, interesting historic places to visit, tours and special events, issues and news in preservation. Subscribe today!
Tours & Events
Restore Oregon offers an array of interesting and educational tours, including behind-the-scenes tours of preservation projects. The best way to stay up-to-date about upcoming events is to sign-up for our eNew and check our calendar regularly.
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To help us better process your request, please fill out this brief form and a Restore Oregon preservation expert will get back to you within 2 business days.