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The Standards are a series of concepts about
maintaining, repairing and replacing historic
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materials, as well as designing new additions
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or making alterations. They cannot, in and of
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Standards provide philosophical consistency to
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There are Standards for four distinct, but
interrelated, approaches to the treatment of
historic properties--preservation,
rehabilitation, restoration, and reconstruction.
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interpreting the
retention of a property's form as it has
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evolved over time. (Protection and
Interior's Standards for
Rehabilitation.
Stabilization have now been consolidated
under this treatment.)
Rehabilitation
acknowledges the need to
alter or add to a historic property to meet
continuing or changing uses while retaining
the property's historic character.
Restoration
depicts a property at a
particular period of time in its history, while
removing evidence of other periods.
Reconstruction
re-creates vanished or non-
surviving portions of a property for
interpretive purposes.
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