Historic Preservation Advocacy Page
Research Resources:
The following tools will provide you with the ability to locate and identify history, houses and landscapes
and to assist you in solving a challenge or seeking a solution.
Essex County Register of Deeds
Specific to Preservationists:
General City & Organizational Contacts:
Secretary
of Interior's Standards for Historic Properties
Massachusetts
Building Code specific to historic properties:
Standards
for Downtown Newburyport Signage
Newburyport
Zoning Ordinance for the Downtown Historic District:
Newburyport
Zoning Ordinance for the Newburyport Historic District:
Newburyport
Zoning Ordinance for the Waterfront West Overlay District:
The Watchful Eye:
Community
Preservation Committee
The Plans that Newburyport is
supposed to follow (But either
isn’t or is trying to wiggle out of its responsibility):
Open
Space & Recreation Plan 2012-2022
Green
Communities Action Plan - Newburyport
Newburyport
Historic Preservation Plan 1991
Signage
Standards for Downtown Newburyport
Section
XVII: Downtown Overlay District (DOD)
Section
XVIII: Demolition Control Overlay District (DCOD)
Towle
Complex Overlay District
Waterfront
Strategic Plan 2003
Waterfront
West Overlay District
Regional Resources:
Essex National Heritage
Commission
Merrimack Valley Regional Planning Commission
Essex County Greenbelt Association