Leland Torrence wrote:
>
> >> What is the relationship of preservation to restoration?>
> >I offer a first pass at, ten words or less, definitions of what I
> >perceive to be the five levels of preservation.
> >
> >        - Stablization: to stablize and maintain
> >        - Conservation: to stablize and repair
> >        - Restoration:  to return to a previous condition
> >        - Renovation:   to fix up and change for new use (Remodeling)
> >        - Reconstruction: to build new to some level of artifical old
>
> I am constantly suggesting and encouraging "preservation" groups to use
> vocabulary for which they agree on a definition.  It seems to me that for
> good or bad it is best to use the most widely circulated and available
> definitions: The Secretary of the Interior's Standards for the Treatment of
> Historic Properties.  The four catagories as outlined, Preservation
> (protection and stabilization), Rehabilitation, Restoration and
> Reconstruction should serve as the broader context for our debates.
>
> Leland
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Leland

Can you provide brief definitions for the four categories as represented
by the Sec. of the Int. Stand.(SIS)?

The SIS is a document that occasionally needs to be tweaked. I find the
word 'preservation' being used more and more as the overall descriptive
word in what we are talking about. As a result, I find it hard to also
use it as one of the four or five categories.

If the four work, fine. If five or six work better lets not be tied down
by the thinking that has gone before. Lets use it as, possibly, a common
starting point.

Bryan