A historic home and building may take some extra time and care to maintain, but it is worth it in the end.
That is why the State Historic Preservation Office holds their Building Doctor clinics like the one on Wapakoneta tonight(4/19/18). The clinic helps people that are looking at restoring historic buildings built at least 50 years ago. It gives them a starting point on how to use original materials to make the buildings look as good as they did when they were first built. Many times, people may want to take shortcuts and use vinyl or other materials to renovate their buildings, but the Building Doctors urge people to put in the work to maintain history for the future.
"The historic resource that you have is so important, not just to you personally, but frankly, to history. You know you are a caretaker in this building's life. The people that are going to come after you 50 years from now, 100 years from now. If you maintain your historic property well now, that building will be available to people in the future," said Mariangela Pfister, Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer.
For more information and tips on how to restore a historic building or get advice from the experts, log on to www.building-doctor.org.
