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Ripon Main Street, Inc.
Craig Tebon, Executive Director
127 Jefferson Street,
P.O. Box 365
Ripon, WI 54971
Phone #: (920) 748-7466
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Renovation Assistance
Design Guidelines for Historic Downtown Ripon
 Ripon Main Street,
Inc. offers free design assistance to
business/property owners within the downtown area who are interested in doing
exterior and interior renovation projects. This program can help take the
guesswork out of your rehab project by providing you with sample drawings of
possible facade improvements. Color schemes, paint and awning samples, signs as
well as technical information about how to get the work done are just some of
the solutions the program can offer. These design guidelines serve as a guide for various improvement projects. They are intended to suggest ways in which property/business owners can take
advantage of downtown Ripon's unique charm and history.
The
Downtown Ripon Design Manual can be downloaded by clicking on the PDF link.
Documents:
Downtown Ripon Design Manual
Facade Grant Application
Building Improvement Loan Application
Watson Street National Historic District Application
Sign Examples for
Historic Buildings
and Central Business Districts
.jpg) Signs
are a vital part of all downtown businesses. A sign calls attention to your
business and creates an individual image for your store. Consistent signage
through the business district also contributes to an overall unified appearance.
A well designed sign should compliment the architectural style of the building.
This web page features a collection of various sign examples that are
appropriate for historic revitalized areas. Ripon Main Street, Inc. offers free
design assistance to business owners who are interested in enhancing the
appearance of their stores.
Secretary of the Interior Standards for Rehabilitation
This web site should be useful for anyone interested in learning more about the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation, but was designed especially for historic
building owners; new members of design review and historic preservation
commissions; architects, contractors, and developers; maintenance personnel and
others involved in the care of historic buildings; and students in historic
preservation courses.
Preservation Briefs
The first Preservation Brief
was published in 1975. Since then, over 40 more have been added to the series.
For over 25 years, Technical Preservation Services has helped home owners,
preservation professionals, organizations, and government agencies by publishing
easy-to read guidance on preserving, rehabilitating and restoring historic
buildings. Briefs assist owners and
developers of historic buildings in recognizing and resolving common
preservation and repair problems prior to work. The briefs are especially useful
to preservation tax incentive program applicants because they recommend those
methods and approaches for rehabilitating historic buildings that are consistent
with their historic character. More
than 2 million copies of the Preservation Briefs are in print and the
illustrated Preservation Briefs 1-43 are now available online as an integral
part of our 25th anniversary celebration.
Historic Preservation
Tax Credits for
Income-Producing Historic Buildings
Owners of historic
income-producing properties in Wisconsin may be eligible for two income tax
credits that can help pay for their building's rehabilitation. The Wisconsin
Historical Society's Division of Historic Preservation (DHP) administers both
programs in conjunction with the National Park Service (NPS). The Federal
Historic Preservation Credit returns 20 percent of the cost of
rehabilitating historic buildings to owners as a direct reduction in their
federal income taxes. The Wisconsin Supplemental Historic Preservation Credit
returns an additional 5 percent of the cost of rehabilitation to owners as a
discount on their Wisconsin state income taxes. Owners that qualify for the
Federal Historic Preservation Credit automatically qualify for the Wisconsin
supplement if they get NPS approval before they begin any work.
Historic Preservation Tech Notes
Preservation Tech Notes provide innovative
solutions to specific problems in preserving cultural resources--buildings,
structures, and objects. Tech Notes are intended for practitioners in the
preservation field, including architects, contractors, and maintenance
personnel, as well as for owners and developers seeking the preservation tax
investment credit for rehabilitation.
Historic
Preservation Easements
A Historic
Preservation Tool with Federal Tax Benefits
What is a Historic Preservation Easement? A preservation easement is a voluntary legal
agreement that protects a significant historic, archaeological, or cultural
resource. An easement provides assurance to the owner of a historic or cultural
property that the property's intrinsic values will be preserved through
subsequent ownership. In addition, the owner may obtain substantial tax
benefits. An entire historic structure or just the facade or interior may
qualify. Historic preservation easements also are used to protect a historic
landscape, battlefield, traditional cultural place, or archaeological site.
Under the terms of an easement, a property owner grants a portion of, or
interest in, her property rights to an organization whose mission includes
historic preservation. Once recorded, an easement becomes part of the property's
chain of title and usually "runs with the land" in perpetuity, thus binding not
only the owner who grants the easement but all future owners as well.
National
Trust for Historic Preservation
The National Trust for Historic
Preservation is a private, nonprofit membership organization dedicated to saving
historic places and revitalizing America's communities. Recipient of the
National Humanities Medal, the Trust was founded in 1949 and provides
leadership, education, advocacy, and resources to protect the irreplaceable
places that tell America’s story. Staff at the Washington, D.C., headquarters,
six regional offices and 28 historic sites work with the Trust’s 270,000 members
and thousands of preservation groups in all 50 states.
Wisconsin Historical
Society
The Wisconsin Historical Society is
both a state agency and a private membership organization. Founded in 1846, two
years before statehood, and chartered in 1853, it is the oldest American
historical society to receive continuous public funding. By statute, it is
charged with collecting, advancing, and disseminating knowledge of Wisconsin and
of the trans-Allegheny West. Wisconsin Historical Society Mission -- The Society
engages the public with the excitement of discovery, inspires people with new
perspectives on the past, and illuminates the relevance of history in our lives
today.
National Park
Service "Links to the Past"
History is Everywhere. In
nearly 400 national parks and every hometown. It covers everything from the
remnants of ancient civilizations to the boyhood homes of U.S. Presidents to the
stirring sagas of hard-fought wars to the reverberations of one woman refusing
to give up her seat on a bus. History is a part of who we were, who we are, and
who we will be. We invite you to learn more about history and how the National
Park Service works to preserve it.
About: Architecture
This page is your starting
place for exploring house styles, with links to facts, photos, diagrams, and
building plans for the most popular housing styles in North America.
The Heritage
Education Network
This site is for teachers and everyone
wanting to educate about historic preservation. Heritage Education is the
use of local cultural and historic resources for teaching the required cirricula
of grades K-12. Activities, lesson
plans and units of study focus on, but are not limited to, architecture,
archaeology, cemeteries, community and family history, the urban and rural
landscape, and much more.
House of Antique Hardware
At House of Antique Hardware
we believe that period homes were designed and built with a rare integrity. For
those of us compelled to restore that integrity, we share a responsibility: to
stay true to the original design. At House of Antique Hardware, there are no
short cuts to reproducing the past. We have one of the largest selections of
original and authentic reproduction hardware on the web, and sales staff
dedicated to matching the most faithful restoration project.
Fypon
 Architectural Molded Millwork made from rigid
polyurethane. Products manufactured include balusters, railings, columns,
porch
posts, gable decorations, moldings, and small decorative items.
Rejuvenation
Rejuvenation Lamp
& Fixture Co. manufactures reproduction lighting for a wide variety of period
interiors. Reproduction lighting duplicates the originals in every detail.
Restoration
Hardware
At Restoration Hardware,
you'll explore an exceptionally well merchandised world of high quality
textiles, furniture, lighting, bathware, hardware and amusements. These are
products of lasting value, classic design and imbued all with a brand that
speaks to superb taste and a free spirited individuality.It's a hardware store
unlike any other, filled with products linked by classic design, affordable
pricing and an abundance of product information.
Traditional Building
This website has been created by,
and is maintained by, the editors of TRADITIONAL BUILDING -- the bimonthly
magazine edited for design and building professionals involved with public
architecture: Commercial, Institutional, Government and Religious buildings. The
web site is intended for professionals who need to know where to locate
hard-to-find historical products and services for commercial buildings and other
public properties.
Van Dyke's Restorers
Since 1983, Van Dyke's Restorers has been the
industry leader in antique furniture and vintage home restoration supplies.
Specializing in unusual and hard-to-find products, Van Dyke's experienced
technical staff continues to search out existing products of outstanding
original hardware to have reproduced by highly skilled artisans from around the
world. Additionally, Van
Dyke's offers an extensive selection of period style, solid oak furniture kits
manufactured on site by their team of talented craftsmen.
The Barn
Journal
This site, from the Michigan Barn
Preservation Network and the Michigan State University Museum, covers stories,
people, events, resources and more, all about barns. Useful: Updates on
"new" material, from events to barns about to be demolished to books and
articles.
Historic Properties
Looking to sell or buy historic houses? This web
site is an
online resource for buying
and selling historic real estate. From projects to completed renovations,
residential to commercial, west coast to east coast and now even outside the
U.S.A., Federal to Eclectic; you can search our database of properties for sale.
Where is Ripon?
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Dedicated to Restoring Historic Downtown Ripon!
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