When you buy a historically significant house—be it bungalow, Spanish style or miscellaneous—your signature on the mortgage (initial here, here and here) just opens the floodgates.

Cast-iron drainpipe rusted out after 70 years? Get busy and run a new one, unless you’d rather . . . call a plumber. Water somehow drip-drip-dripping in at 3 a.m. through redwood window frames and double-hung wooden windows? You’re the boss of that water. Get tough!

And what color were you planning to repaint your house? And where do you find those vintage glass cabinet knobs? Those are all bad problems and good questions, and all—probably—can be answered Sunday, at the inaugural Rose Park Neighborhood Association’s Restoration Trade Fair.

“This is to meet the homeowners’ needs,” says fair organizer Gretchen Swanson, a homeowner in Rose Park—so-named because its original area radiates out from Orizaba Avenue and Eighth Street, and a circular park with a rose garden. “If they live in a historic district and want to modify anything on the outside or from the street-side, they need to go through a process.”

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