Treatment of Historic Buildings

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Preservation,

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require retention of the greatest amount of historic fabric, along with the building’s historic form, features, and detailing as they have evolved over time.

Question 3

The Rehabilitation Standards

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acknowledge the need to alter or add to a historic building to meet continuing or new uses while retaining the building’s historic character.

Question 4

The Restoration Standards allow for the depiction of a building at a particular time in its history by preserving materials from the period of sig- nificance and removing materials from other periods.

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The Reconstruction Standards establish a limited framework for re-creating a vanished or non-surviv- ing building with new materials, primarily for inter- pretive purposes.