Cultural Heritage Policy Documents
Secretary of the Interior's Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties (1995)
United States National Park Service
This document sets forth in nontechnical language common-sense standards to be applied to all properties listed in the National Register of Historic buildings. The standards cover four distinct approaches to treatment of historic properties:
This document sets forth in nontechnical language common-sense standards to be applied to all properties listed in the National Register of Historic buildings. The standards cover four distinct approaches to treatment of historic properties:
- preservation—focusing on maintenance and repair;
- rehabilitation—adapting the property to changing use while retaining its historic character;
- restoration—depicting the property at a particular period in its history;
- and, reconstruction—recreating vanished portions of a property for interpretive purposes.
The document also sets forth standards for choosing a suitable
treatment for a historic building or landscape.
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