Preservation Resources

  1. Researching Your Historic Property

How to research property history, a handy guide for starting your search.

Dallas County property and deed records. 

Historic maps.

Portal to Texas History, Texas Mesquiter newspaper and Mesquite, Texas archives.

Handbook of Texas Online, search Mesquite, TX.

  1. Preservation Organizations

Texas Historical Commission, www.thc.state.tx.us

Preservation Texas, www.preservationtexas.com

National Trust for Historic Preservation, www.preservationnation.org

American Association of State and Local History, www.aaslh.org

Association for Living History, Farm and Agricultural Museums, www.alhfam.org

Texas Historical Foundation, www.texashistoricalfoundation.org 

Dallas County Historical Commission https://www.dallascounty.org/departments/plandev/dchc/

Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties

The Secretary of the Interior’s Standards

The Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties are common sense historic preservation principles in non-technical language. They promote historic preservation best practices that will help to protect our nation’s irreplaceable cultural resources 

National Parks Service

Technical Preservation Services develops historic preservation standards and guidance on preserving and rehabilitating historic buildings, administers the Federal Historic Preservation Tax Incentives Program for rehabilitating historic buildings, and sets the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties.