Protecting historic properties
These properties can change owners but come with many restrictions imposed by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
New York
BENEATH the living room's Hershey-hued oak coffers and beside its stately red-brick fireplace stood a small wooden side table, looking as old as the house itself. A sign-in sheet lay on the table, and a pile of thick, colourful folders.
Inside each folder were two thick packets. They contained professionally shot photographs, detailed floor plans and facts about the house, a 1923 bungalow, and its neighbourhood, Broadway-Flushing in Queens, where suburban tracts were laid out in 1906.
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