A Home Renovator's Guide for Historic Ocean Grove
Subtitle: a Victorian Seaside Resort with Memories of a Preservationist, The 1980s
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Viewfinder Press
Published: 2024
Place of publication: Austin, Texas
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 69
ISBN-13: 9798991097307
Copyright date: 2024
Subjects: Architecture; Personal memoirs
First sentence: As property owners in the historic district of Ocean Grove, we are the stewards of an irreplaceable architectural heritage. But as a living community, preservation of our buildings and original town plan is complicated by the changing times.
Description: “A Home Renovator’s Guide for Historic Ocean Grove with Memories of a Preservationist, the 1980s” from the author Jennifer Boyd is illustrated with 114 contemporary color photographs by John Sosenko. The Guide presents eight Victorian architectural styles in Ocean Grove, nuts-and-bolts advice on good renovation techniques and requirements to preserve historic character, capped with an inside story of Ocean Grove residents’ pitched battle to protect its historic fabric against the onslaught of fire, neglect, and developers in the 1980s. This untold tale unfolds through a behind-the-scenes account by the author, a past president of the Ocean Grove Home Owner’s Association and preservationist of that era.