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That's the question you always need to ask – and answer – before starting to rehabilitate a historic building. If you can identify the visually distinctive materials, features, and spaces prior to work, you are much more likely to preserve them during the work.
WHO SHOULD COME IN? This web site is designed especially for new members of historic preservation commissions, as well as property owners, architects, and developers. Anyone is welcome, of course!
WHAT CAN YOU LEARN? Through illustrated
examples, we show you how to weigh the visual impact of proposed changes
to the exterior, interior, and site using a 3-step approach. By applying this method to evaluate a historic building from a distance, up close,
and inside, you can begin to decide where alterations might reasonably
take place – and which visual aspects you need to preserve.
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ASK…LOOK…IDENTIFY…EVALUATE…CONCLUDE Step 1. Identify the building's overall visual aspects, by examining the exterior from afar to understand its distinctive features, and the building site, or landscape. Step 2. Identify the visual aspects of the exterior at close range by moving up very close to see its materials, craftsmanship and surface finishes. Step 3. Identify the interior visual
aspects – spaces, features and finishes – by going into
and through the building. |
