Bulletin Board of Preservation Resources

Here are comments and ideas from some of our members on resources you can tap to complete a preservation or restoration project that will respect the architectural history and integrity of your home:

General Preservation Resources

Oldhouseweb.com

"Oldhouseweb.com should be a bookmarked website for anyone restoring or preserving a vintage home. It contains products and services needed for authentic restoration and design work, with particularly amazing and comprehensive listings of architectural salvage suppliers and reproduction wallpaper from the Arts & Crafts movement. Even better, it has information on things like how to calculate the right capacity copper gutters for your house, options for installing central air in historic structures, etc."

From Megan Cifarelli

Reproduction Light Fixtures

A great source for historic lighting is Richard D. Scofield in Connecticut (currently moving from Chester CT -- North of Essex on Connecticut River) with a website at scofieldlighting.com. They do handmade reproduction historic lighting in 17th, 18th, and 19th century styles. We have had many lights made by them and love what they create. It takes many months as they are a small shop but it was always worth the wait.

From Beth Billik

Antique and Reproduction Furniture

Briggs House Antiques, 566 E. Post Road, Mamaroneck

"This is a wonderful 8,000 s.f. emporium with

English,Irish, Welsh and French antique furniture and

accessories for the home, as well as antique garden and

patio accessories, all personally selected by the owner,

Lorraine Mahoney. She also has the resources that will

build custom furniture reproductions, such as dining

tables. She is personable, pleasure to work with and will

shop abroad for anything one has a yen for."

From Wendy Carley

Pelham Preservation Society, Ltd.

Pelham, New York

Incorporated 1999