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Communicate Your Historic Preservation Message

Learn how to make a case for historic preservation and use multiple tools to share your preservation message with different audiences.
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Historic Preservation Advocacy Guide

More than 100 how-to articles to help you learn how to advocate for the preservation of historic buildings and resources in your community.
Learn how to advocate for the preservation of historic buildings and resources in your community with this collection of more than 100 articles.
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Start a Nonprofit Historic Preservation Organization

Learn the steps to start a nonprofit organization in Wisconsin and best practices to get your historic preservation organization off to a good start.
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Fund Your Historic Preservation Organization

Learn skills and strategies to raise funds and discover where to find financial support for your historic preservation organization.
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Organize a Historic Preservation Advocacy Effort

Learn how to organize an effort to preserve historic buildings in your community and influence preservation-related policymaking.
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Operate Your Nonprofit Preservation Organization

Learn how to build an effective nonprofit board of directors, find and keep members, solve common nonprofit management problems, and work with government.
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Preserve Your Homes and Properties

Search the most up-to-date version of the National or State Register of Historic Places and the Society's Architecture and History Inventory.
Find resources for historic preservation efforts, including online training, and access the National or State Register of Historic Places.
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Information for Preservation Consultants and Archaeologists

Find forms, guidelines, resources for research and more.
Information and resources to assist architecture professionals and archaeology consultants in preserving Wisconsin's history
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State Historic Preservation Officer Review

Learn about the review process that protects historic preservation resources during federal, state and local projects.
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Jason Tish

Speakers Bureau
Jason Tish is a WHS State Historic Preservation Office member and a member of the Wisconsin Historical Society Speakers Bureau.
News Release

October 19, 2017 - Local History and Historic Preservation Conference Comes to La Crosse this Weekend

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
This annual conference offers workshops, tours and special events for those in the local history community from around the Midwest.
News Release

National Historic Preservation Act 50th Anniversary

National Historic Preservation Act 50th Anniversary
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How to Preserve Your Historic Building

Information and resources to assist architecture professionals and archaeology consultants in preserving Wisconsin's history
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Tribal Historic Preservation Officers Contact List

Find contact information for Tribal Historic Preservation Officers (THPO).
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About the National Register and State Register of Historic Places

All Wisconsin National Register of Historic Places listings are searchable on our website.
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National Register and State Register of Historic Places

The National Register and State Register of Historic Places include buildings, sites, districts, and structures that are significant in history.
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Daina Penkiunas

Speakers Bureau
Daina Penkiunas is a WHS Historic Preservation member and a member of the Wisconsin Historical Society Speakers Bureau.
Article

Ken and Barb Wardius

Speakers Bureau
Ken and Barb Wardius are WHS Press authors and members of the Wisconsin Historical Society Speakers Bureau.
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Sally Jacobs

Speakers Bureau
Sally Jacobs is a WHS Library and Archives member and a member of the Wisconsin Historical Society Speakers Bureau.
General Information

Municipal and Town Governments and Burial Sites

Learn about the procedures for handling publicly-owned or abandoned burial sites.

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