Preservation Planning Associates

Imagine your own custom-designed team of qualified and enthusiastic professionals helping you protect, preserve, promote and sustain your community's historic legacy!  

We believe in the power of partnerships in historic preservation. We work with governments and nonprofits, individuals and businesses to help you breathe life into your character-defining historic buildings, downtowns, older neighborhoods and cultural landscapes.  It's about legacy.  It's about sustaining communities through heritage.  It's about our future.

What We Do

Roxanne Eflin, Owner of Preservation Planning Associates, is a skilled leader, collaborator and public speaker in historic preservation, downtown revitalization, community planning, heritage tourism, and fund raising.  She and her associates work to empower community leaders and citizen volunteers with new understanding, appreciation, skills and legislative tools to protect and preserve the essential assets that define your historic sense of place – and provide the critical market edge in economic development and greener communities  Read on and learn more...

We believe in the power of Giving. A portion of our time is donated to each project we undertake. Please pass it on.

What's New?

June, 1008: Our team was selected by the Maine Historic Preservation Commission to conduct a statewide survey of Post WWII residential architectural styles (1946-1975) and create a Field Guide for use across Maine.

History is made in Maine! Thanks to a remarkable coalition, funding for LD262-Maine's State Rehab Tax Credit legislation was approved by the Legislature in the wee hours of March 31, 2008.  Click for the story. 

Learn about CAMP (Commission Assistance Mentoring Program) - the National Alliance of Preservation Commission's fun and effective national training program for preservation commissions. 

Learn about the 2007 National Preservation Honor Award bestowed upon the United Society of Shakers at Sabbathday Lake. Maine.  Roxanne Eflin represented Maine Preservation who was honored with the other project collaborators at St. Paul's historic Fitzgerald Theater October 4, 2007 during the National Preservation Conference.