Guiding Principles for Historic Preservation

Guiding Principles for Field-Based Historic Preservation is ideal for field personnel who work directly on historic structures and/or cultural landscapes and seek to feel more empowered when making historic preservation treatment decisions. Participants will learn how to make preservation treatment recommendations using national standards and guidelines. Through case studies, discussions, and hands-on activities, participants will learn how to apply fundamental historic preservation concepts in developing treatment recommendations.

Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore
2025
In this five-day Training Wheels workshop, preservation and maintenance professionals learned about historic plaster and its components. They learned to assess conditions and began repairing the plaster walls in the lighthouse keeper’s house.