Montgomery County historic preservation design guidelines

Are being republished in an updated form. The current design guideline book, published in 1979, is not available online. The new guidelines are available online in draft form. The previous version is decent, typed rather than typeset.

The new guidelines are updated to better reflect concerns of today, and there is the important addition of a new chapter on the narrative themes and cultural landscape of Montgomery County's history (Architectural History - Chapter 2 [PDF]), which helps to put preservation in context, making it a bit easier to explain and demonstrate why history and historic preservation is important, and why certain places and buildings are deemed "historic" and worthy of preserving.

The guidelines will be considered for approval at the next Montgomery County Historic Preservation Commission meeting, which will be held Tuesday October 7th, at 8787 Georgia Avenue in Silver Spring.