Bureau for Historic Preservation The Commonwealth Keystone Building 400 North Street, 2nd Floor Harrisburg, PA 17120-0093 717.787.4363 website: www.phmc.state.pa.us

This State Commission reviews nominations to the National Register of Historic Places, conducts initial reviews of applications for the federal investment tax credit for the restoration and rehabilitation of historic properties, and provides information and technical assistance. Its Pennsylvania History and Museum Program and Keystone Historic Preservation Grants are available to eligible organizations.

National Register in Pennsylvania website: www.arch.state.pa.us

The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission has entered its complete inventory of National Register and National Historic Landmark properties in the Commonwealth on a new website called ARCH. It includes more than 3000 National Register nominations.

1616 Walnut Street, Suite 2110 Philadelphia, Pa 19103 215.546.1146 fax 215.546.1180 website: www.preservationalliance.com

The Alliance is the Philadelphia region’s non-profit preservation leader, dedicated to the protection and appropriate development of Greater Philadelphia’s historic resources - buildings, communities, and landscapes. A membership organization, Alliance programs include public advocacy, the acquisition and maintenance of preservation easements, and the provision of grants and technical assistance to stewards of historic house museums. The Alliance sponsors the annual Preservation Achievement Awards and conducts monthly insider tours of historic places, publishes Preservation Matters, a quarterly newsletter, maintains an award-winning web site with the latest in preservation news, and has a number of publications available to the public.

Northeast Field Office 6401 Germantown Avenue Philadelphia, PA 19144 215.848.8033 fax 215.848.5997 website: www.nthp.org

The field office of the private, non-profit organization chartered by Congress in 1949 serves Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New Jersey. The Trust encourages public participation in preservation, provides limited financial assistance through grant and loan programs, and publishes widely.

257 North Street Harrisburg, PA 17101 717.234.2310 fax 717.234.2522 website: www.preservationpa.org

This statewide membership organization assists Pennsylvania communities and groups to protect and utilize the historic resources they want to preserve. It also monitors state legislative activity, publishes a newsletter, and administers a grant program for Philadelphia preservation projects.

3101 Market Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 215.685.9401 fax 215.685.9409 website: www.phila.gov/phils/carchive.htm

The City Archives contains deeds and mortgages from the founding of Philadelphia to 1952, birth, death, and cemetery records up to 1915, and an excellent early photograph collection, all invaluable in researching an old Philadelphia house.

1314 Locust Street Philadelphia, PA 19107 215.546.3181 fax 215.546.5167 website: www.librarycompany.org

A rare book and research library with collections documenting the history and background of American culture from the Colonial period to the Civil war.

1250 Locust Street Philadelphia, PA 19107 215.732.6200 website: www.hsp.org

The Society is an excellent source of materials on Philadelphia history, including census records, old newspaper articles, family histories, maps and atlases. The Society also has a large collection of watercolors and early photographs of various buildings and landscapes throughout the Philadelphia area.

219 S. 6th Street Philadelphia, PA 19106 215.925.2688 website: www.philaathenaeum.org website: www.philadelphiabuildings.org

The Athenaeum holds an extensive collection of architectural plans and drawings by noted Philadelphia architects and other materials useful in researching old Philadelphia houses.