Resources

Walking Tour Brochures

• Harmon & LeValley 1st Avenue
• Harmon & LeValley 2nd Street
• Old Fourth Ward North
• Old Fourth Ward South
• Sturdevant East Side
• Sturdevant West Side

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City Code

• Historic Preservation Commission Code - Section 49

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1868 Poster Maps Available for Purchase

• 1868 Poster Map Order Form

Poster maps show a city view of 1868 Waverly, Iowa, and are 15” (length) by 12” (height). They are $10 each. They will be provided in a cardboard tube and contain a summary about the practice of creating 19th century Bird’s Eye View maps. If the poster map is to be mailed, add $5.00 to the total. Order via check, cash, or money orders. If picking up a poster in person, a contact is listed on the order form.

Print, fill out and mail the order form to: City of Waverly, PO Box 616, Attn: Historic Preservation Commission, Waverly, IA  50677.

Additional information about the historic poster maps is available from any Historic Preservation Commissioner, the Waverly Chamber of Commerce, the Community Development Office at the City of Waverly, or the Waverly Public Library.

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Historic Photos

Thanks to a collaboration between the Waverly Public Library and Fortepan Iowa at the University of Northern Iowa, the Waverly Historical Photo Collection is now digitized!  You can view, browse, and download high-resolution scans of over 3, 500 images that document the people and places of Waverly, starting in 1863.  

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Helpful Links

State

• State Historical Society of Iowa
• Tax Incentives (State and Federal) for Preservation
• National Historic Register Process in Iowa
• Iowa Northland Regional Council of Governments
• Iowa Homeland Security and Emergency Management
• Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs

• Salvage Barn/Friends of Historic Preservation, Iowa City, Iowa

National

• Affected Taxpayers in the Midwestern Disaster Areas
• National Alliance of Preservation Commissions
• National Park Service: Preservation Briefs
• National Parks Service
• National Register of Historic Places
• National Trust for Historic Preservation
• PreservationDirectory.com

National Government

• Preservation Action
• Advisory Council on Historic Preservation
• Historic Preservation Planning Program

Additional Topics

• Old House Web
• American Architecture
• OldHouses.com
• SAH Archipedia: This newly designed SAH Archipedia brings peer-reviewed scholarship to a worldwide audience of researchers, preservation advocates and others interested in learning more about the architectural history of the U.S.
• Farmers Exchange/Co-op, South Riverside Park Reconstruction