Foreclosure Response: Opportunities for the Rehabilitation of Older and Historic Properties
Rehabilitating older and historic housing has many community benefits and personal rewards, but also poses significant technical, financial, and regulatory challenges.
This spring, Greg Donofrio’s graduate course in preservation planning researched innovative policies and best practices currently used in other cities to facilitate the rehabilitation of abandoned and neglected housing.
Foreclosure Response: Opportunities for the Rehabilitation of Older and Historic Properties
Rehabilitating older and historic housing has many community benefits and personal rewards, but also poses significant technical, financial, and regulatory challenges.
This spring, Greg Donofrio’s graduate course in preservation planning researched innovative policies and best practices currently used in other cities to facilitate the rehabilitation of abandoned and neglected housing.
Renovating your home to Preserve Character and Improve Energy Efficiency
Tips on home improvements to roofs, exterior walls, windows, porches, and doors, and keeping the character of your home intact while saving money and energy.
Tour Saint Paul: Dayton's Bluff
Tour Saint Paul: Dayton’s Bluff
Audio Walking Tour of Dayton’s Bluff
Heritage Preservation District
Historic Saint Paul is trying something new!
Please download our audio walking tour files, and enjoy an architectural tour of the Dayton’s Bluff Heritage Preservation District. Click on samples files for a preview and download attached files below:
Preservation Journal:Fall 2008
Download the Fall 2008 Preservation Journal to read more!
Preservation Journal: Spring 2008
by Michael Koop
In 2006, St. Paul-based Old Home Foods closed its production plant located on the southeast corner of University and Western Avenues.
Preservation Journal: Fall 2007
by Paul Singh
The number of vacant residential properties in Saint Paul has more than doubled over the past year. There are currently more than 1,200 vacant single-family homes and duplexes in the city. This trend is fueled by foreclosures and the recent decline in the housing market. These vacant homes are overwhelmingly concentrated in Saint Paul’s core neighborhoods: West Seventh, Summit-University, Frogtown, the North End, Payne-Phalen and Dayton’s Bluff.
Preservation Development Initiative Report
In May, 2002 Saint Paul was named as a demonstration site in the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s Preservation Development Initiatives (PDI) program. The PDI program, made possible by funding from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, is designed to incorporate historic preservation into community and economic development strategies.
Mapping Historic Preservation Potential
Restore Saint Paul: Mapping Historic Preservation Potential employs a geographical information system (GIS) analysis of property information, demographics and local data to identify neighborhoods that are challenged by disinvestment, yet are endowed with historic resources.
