Newsletter of the Cleveland Restoration Society's Heritage Home ProgramSM.
MAY 2022
Tips and Tricks: Maintaining Your Home
Home maintenance can be a daunting task, but with some planning ahead it can be an easy part of your month or year.

A good place to start on a home maintenance project, is to gather information about your home - what type of roofing, siding, widows, etc. do you have? When was the furnace or fireplace checked or inspected? Is there any visible damage from a storm or other weather events? Has there been evidence of water intrusion inside the home - in the attic, by doors and windows, or in the basement?
Having a checklist on hand helps to keep everything you are inspecting or looking over on track. You can find home maintenance checklists online from a variety of sources. The Heritage Home Program has one such Checklist available for download in our Preservation Toolbox. It covers items to look over for your exterior. Good times to check the exterior of your home are in the spring and fall!
Check out the Heritage Home Program's Maintaining Your Home's Exterior presentation online for more tips and tricks on home maintenance projects.
Our Preservation Toolbox is also filled with information on home repair and maintenance!
HHP Homeowners Honored at 2022 Celebration of Preservation
The Cleveland Restoration Society's annual Celebration of Preservation aired on Friday, May 6th at 4:00pm. The Celebration of Preservation is held each year to recognize exemplary historic preservation projects across northeast Ohio. The awards highlight and showcase recently completed projects and bring together the people that make them happen.

We hope you were able to join our online broadcast, and if you would like to watch it again (or for the first time), visit the Cleveland Restoration Society's YouTube Channel! Our 2022 awards included two homeowners that received the Heritage Home Program Award for their unique and spectacular renovations and repairs completed using the Heritage Home Program Loan. Watch our award ceremony for their amazing stories!

Congratulations to all of the award recipients this year!
Upcoming Events this Month
Heritage Home Program Information Sessions and other presentations are coming up this month! For more information about our virtual or in-person events, check out our Events Calendar. Registration is required for our virtual events and can be done over the phone or through the calendar.

Our topical presentation this May is Guide to Researching Your Home. This presentation is a walkthrough of the variety of ways you can learn about the history of your home and neighborhood! Filled with information on resources available to homeowners through public libraries, internet searching, or county archives, this presentation has it all!

A recording of last year's Guide to Researching Your Home can be found on the Cleveland Restoration Society's YouTube Channel.
Looking for Perspectives?
Perspectives is the Cleveland Restoration Society's monthly e-newsletter! It includes timely coverage of historic preservation-related issues, both local and national, and a regional calendar of events. Anyone who wishes to receive news about preservation-related issues and upcoming events by email can sign up for CRS’s free monthly newsletter. Advocacy updates, event notices, and other informative email bulletins are also sent out periodically.

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