Metals in America’s Historic Buildings

Uses and Preservation Treatments

1980

Part I. A Historical Survey of Metals by Margot Gayle and David W. Look, AlA

Part II. Deterioration and Methods of Preserving Metals by John G. Waite, AIA

Also see our Historic Roofing page.

This remarkable resource used to be available as a complete document on the National Park Service’s Technical Preservation Services website, but now they’ve split it up into what seems to be four smaller pdf files, so we can’t just link to the whole thing anymore.

We wanted to be able to scroll the whole document at once, so we added it here. If you’d prefer to read the National Park Service’s version, you can access the NPS’s pdfs from this page.

Metals in America’s Historic Buildings