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

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Secretary of Interior's Standards for the Treatment of Historic
Properties:
1)  Preservation:  focuses on the maintenance and repair of existing
historic materials and retention of a property's form as it has evolved
over
time. (Protection and Stabilization have now been consolodated under
this
treatment.)
2)  Rehabilitation: Acknowledges the need to alter or add to a historic
property to meet continuing or changing uses while retaining the
properties
historic character.
3)  Restoration: is undertaken to depict a property at a particular
period
of time in history, while removing evidence of other periods.
4)  Reconstruction:  recreates vanished or non-surviving portions of a
property for interpretive purposes.
- Leland

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>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.
> JBB

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Agreed on both accounts.  We should submit our modifications or
additions to
SIS and NTHP and NPS.  Is Tom McGrath or Vitanza Pinheads?

-Leland

I do not believe either Tom is a member (McGrath or Vitanza).

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JBB