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Additional Resources

Websites

• Cheney Historical Museum

• Historylink.org -- The Free Online Encyclopedia of Washington State History

• National Park Service: Technical Preservation Services for Historic Buildings

• National Register of Historic Places

• National Trust for Historic Preservation 
  
  
• Online Learning:  Preservation Education from the Technical Preservation Services of the National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior
  
  
• Spokane City/County Historic Preservation
  
  
• Spokane Public Library House History Page - Tracing the History of Your Home

• TAX INCENTIVES: Onine resource for Federal Historic Preservation Tax Incentives
  
  
• The REHAB YES & NO Learning Program: a web feature of the Heritage Preservation Services Division, National Park Service
  
  
• The Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Treatment of Historic Buildings
  
  
  
• Washington State Office of Archaeology & Historic Preservation
  
  
• Washington Trust for Historic Preservation
  
  

Recommended Books:

Light for an Empire: The Story of Eastern Washington State College;
Cecil Pearl Dryden, Eastern Washington State College Press, 1965.

Dreamers and Schemers: A History of Pioneer Cheney;
Virginia White, Cheney Centennial Committee, 1982.
(Available in the Cheney Library reference section only. Not available to be checked out.)

History of the City of Spokane and Spokane Country, Washington, from its earliest settlement to the present time;
Nelson Wayne Durham, S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1912.

An Illustrated History of Spokane County, State of Washington;
Rev. Jonathan Edwards, W. H. Lever, 1900.

History of the State Normal School at Cheney, Washington;
J. Orin Oliphant, Eastern Washington State College, Inland-American Printing Co., 1924.

Documents

• A Guide to the Central Cheney Historic District
  
  
• A Guide to the E.W.U. Historic District
  
  
• Teacher's Contract from 1886