The Rosin Preservation Collection (SC241) documents the historic preservation projects of the firm from 1998 to 2018 and comprises 184 archival boxes containing tax credit applications, correspondence, photographs, site plans, research, and other records. Thanks to their efforts, hundreds of buildings and historic sites were preserved for future generations.

Founded in 2006, Rosin Preservation was based in Kansas City, Missouri, but offered comprehensive consulting services to clients nationwide. 

Before establishing the company, preservationist Elizabeth Rosin was a partner at Historic Preservation Services, LLC, where she worked on numerous projects between 1998 and 2006. Many of these earlier projects were brought over and became the foundation of Rosin Preservation’s portfolio. 

The types of historic structures and sites Rosin Preservation worked on include, but are not limited to: airports, churches, commercial and office buildings, government buildings, hospitals, hotels, neighborhoods and districts, schools and universities, single and multifamily dwellings, and transportation sites.

In 2019, Rosin Preservation donated its materials to the Kansas City Public Library. Special collections archivists have since rehoused, described, and digitized portions of the collection to provide researchers with access.

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