How Buildings Can Keep Their Historic Character
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This portion of REHAB YES/NO learning program has been specially developed to make a point about choosing approaches to rehabilitation work that preserve the character of historic buildings in our nation's communities.
You will see work that meets the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation because those aspects that make up the building's historic character have been retained and preserved in the process of making changes for a new use. We'll focus on approaches that serve to protect historic materials, exterior features, and interior spaces, features, and finishes in rehabilitation projects. You will also see how new additions—large and small—were designed to reduce the loss of historic fabric and sensitively located to mimimize their visual impact when seen from the public way.
10 Yes Issues focus on "before and after" illustrations of historic buildings. The "befores" point up each historic building's significant qualities or character prior to rehabilitation work, while the "afters" demonstrate how appropriate work has kept their historic character. In each instance, the completed work meets the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation.
The Issue summaries are not intended to be all inclusive, that is, the examples of work illustrate BASIC issues involving material retention and visual compatibility. Other illustrated examples could very well be used and there are many other—more complex—issues in rehabilitation that are not included here.
It is better to look at all 10 Issues, but if you prefer to pick and
choose, you may wish to use the IssueIndex that can be found at the top
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[TOP IMAGE] In rehabilitation, the historic window frames were modified to accept insulated replacement glass.
The specific Standards for Rehabilitation that were applied in each case study project will be highlighted here.
