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Understanding Your Work on a Historic Building
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Telling Historic Preservation Time
This web guidance demonstrates that historic preservation clocks don't
move in quite the same way that the normal one does. What's different
about these "interpretive" and seemingly arbitrary clocks is that they
can be temporarily stopped in Preservation; moved forward in Rehabilitation;
moved backward in Restoration; or re-started Reconstruction. It is these
ideas about time that constitute the philosophical framework for historic
preservation treatments.
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Four Approaches to Treatment—What They Are
Designed to assist historic property owners, managers, and maintenance
personnel, the essay outline and explains the philosophy behind the various
work approaches on historic buildings in The Secretary of the Interior's
Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties. The four options are
Preservation, Rehabilitation, Restoration, and Reconstruction. One approach
should selected and used throughout a project in order to save important
history and avoid historical anachronisms.
Using the Standards and Guidelines for Your Work on a Historic Building
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The Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation
If you want to claim the Federal Historic Preservation
Tax Incentives—tax credit—use these Standards as part of the
formal application process. The Secretary of the Interior's Standards
for Rehabilitation (36 CFR 67) are ten basic principles designed to help
preserve the distinctive character of a historic building and its site,
while allowing for reasonable change to meet new needs. See the Illustrated
Guidelines, below. Also available as a Technical Preservation Services
pamphlet from HPS Free Bookshelf.
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Guidelines for Rehabilitating Historic Buildings
The illustrated guidelines help property owners, developers, and Federal
managers apply the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation
during the project planning stage by providing general design and technical
recommendations. Unlike the Standards, the Guidelines are not codified
as program requirements. Together with the Standards they provide a model
process for owners, developers, and Federal agency managers to follow.
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The Secretary of the Interior's Standards for the Treatment of Historic
Properties and Guidelines for Preserving, Rehabilitating, Restoring and
Reconstructing Historic Buildings
The Guidelines assist in applying the Standards to the four treatments,
Preservation, Rehabilitation, Restoration, and Reconstruction. They pertain
to both exterior and interior work on historic buildings of all sizes,
materials, and types. These Guidelines accompany The Secretary of the
Interior's Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties (36 CFR
68). Now, you can use the Guidelines in this all-new, generously illustrated,
and navigable format. NOTE: You may also wish to access
the Standards and Guidelines in pdf.
Planning Your Work on a Historic Building
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All Wet & How to Prevent It—Managing Moisture in Your Historic House
This mini-web class can help anyone who cares for, or about, a historic
house to better understand and deal with the three most common sources
of the "wet stuff". We'll show you how moisture invades historic materials;
what goes wrong when moisture is not adequately managed; and how to turn
the corner on present and future problems by providing some simple, common
sense tips. Then, after you've read everything, take a short quiz to see
if you're still "All Wet!"
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From the Roof Down & Skin Deep
The "skin" of a historic house includes the roof, chimney, exterior
walls, woodwork, windows, porches, doors, and above-ground portion of
the foundation. Since the "skin" serves as the primary defense against
the weather, regular maintenance and repair are critically important.
In this new distance learning program, you'll learn how the various parts
of your historic house were tightly connected when it was built; how to
keep surfaces and features in good repair over time; and what happens
if you don't. Includes a Quiz!
>> Electronic REHAB
This popular web class is useful for anyone interested in learning more
about The Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation, but
was designed especially for historic building owners; new members of design
review and historic preservation commissions; architects, contractors,
and developers; maintenance personnel and others involved in the care
of historic buildings; and students in historic preservation courses.
Try your hand at rehabilitating two historic buildings by taking a quiz!
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A Checklist for Rehabilitating Historic Buildings
Critical to the successful outcome of work, this series of questions
in a "checklist" format has been designed to help anyone who is considering
the rehabilitation of a historic building. The rehab check list suggests
a typical process of documenting, evaluating, and assessing a historic
building prior to undertaking rehabilitation work.
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Walk Through—Learn How to Identify the Visual Character of a Historic
Building
This web class was specially designed to help owners, architects,
developers, maintenance personnel, and members of historic preservation
commissions identify those tangible elements or features that give historic
buildings their unique visual character. Come in and learn how to read
a historic building. Be sure to take the quiz!
Beginning Your Work on a Historic Building
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Preservation Briefs
The Briefs are developed to assist owners and developers of historic
buildings in recognizing and resolving common preservation and repair
problems prior to work. They are especially useful to preservation tax
incentive program applicants because they recommend those methods and
approaches for rehabilitating historic buildings that are consistent with
their historic character.
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Preservation Tech Notes
Preservation Tech Notes (PTN) provide innovative solutions to specific
problems in preserving cultural resources for architects, contractors,
and maintenance personnel, as well as for anyone seeking the tax credit
for rehabilitation. Order any 3 free of charge from HPS
Free Bookshelf. For Tech Notes on historic window issues, click on
the Bookstore icon and go to Tech Notes sales information.
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