The Secretary of the Interior s Standards for Rehabilitation

An Introduction to: Before The Secretary of the Interior s Standards for Rehabilitation H. J. Brown Building After, Raleigh

Rehabilitation Rehabilitation is defined as: the process of returning a property to a state of utility, through repair or alteration, which makes possible an efficient contemporary use while preserving those portions and features of the property which are significant to its historic, architectural, and cultural values.

What are the Secretary of the Interior s Standards for Rehabilitation? The Standards are ten principles developed by the Secretary of the Interior to guide work on historic properties. The Standards are used to judge the appropriateness of the proposed work to the historic property. The Standards and the accompanying Guidelines are used by architects, property owners and managers, and developers when developing rehabilitation projects and by the State Historic Preservation Office and the National Park Service when reviewing proposed work to a historic property.

Rehabilitation is the most commonly used of the four basic treatments for historic properties. The other treatments are: Preservation; Restoration; and Reconstruction.

Standard #1 Compatible New Use States that a property shall be rehabilitated for its historic purpose or a compatible use that requires minimal change to its distinctive materials, features, spaces, and spatial relationships

Y. E. Smith School, Durham

Cleveland School, Johnston County

Artspace, Raleigh

Capitol Barber Shop, Raleigh

First Christian Church, Greenville

Taff Office Equipment; United Way of Pitt County Greenville

Church Sanctuary/Taff Office Equipment, Greenville

Turnage Theater, Washington

Win-Mock Farm Davie County

Shelton Plantation Barn Chowan County

Main Street Inn B & B Tarboro

Standard #2 Retain Historic Character States that the historic character of a property will be retained and preserved. The removal of distinctive materials or alteration of features, spaces, and spatial relationships will be avoided.

Ocracoke Historic District Ocracoke

Standard #3 Period of Significance States that each property will be recognized as a physical record of its time, place, and use. Changes that create a false sense of historical development, such as adding conjectural features, shall not be undertaken.

Glenwood/Brooklyn Neighborhood, Raleigh

Standard #4 Historic Alterations States that changes to a property that have acquired historic significance in their own right will be retained and preserved.

Albemarle Opera House, Albemarle

Winslow/Wilkerson Stables, Greenville

Standard #5 Preserving Craftsmanship States that distinctive materials, features, finishes, and construction techniques or examples of craftsmanship that characterize a property will be preserved.

108 S. Main Street, Warrenton

Standard #6 Repair or Replace States that deteriorated historic features will be repaired rather than replaced. If replacement is necessary, the new feature will match the old in design, color, texture, and, where possible, materials. Replacement of missing features will be substantiated by documentary and physical evidence.

Golden Belt Historic District, Durham

Standard #7 Nonabrasive Cleaning States that chemical or physical treatments, if appropriate, will be undertaken using the gentlest means possible. Treatments that cause damage to historic materials will not be used.

Standard #8 Archaeology States that archaeological resources will be protected and preserved in place. If such resources must be disturbed, mitigation measures will be undertaken.

Standard #9 New Additions & Alterations States that additions, exterior alterations, or related new construction will not destroy historic materials, features, and spatial relationships. New work will be differentiated from the old and will be compatible with the historic materials, features, size, scale and proportion, and massing to protect the integrity of the property and its environment.

Broughton High School, Raleigh

R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. Tobacco Factory 90 Winston-Salem 1970s Addition 2013 Rehabilitation

R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Factory 91, Winston-Salem

Standard #10 Reversibility States that additions and adjacent or related new construction will be undertaken in such a manner that, if removed in the future, the essential form and integrity of the historic property and its environment would be unimpaired.

Edenton Cotton Mill, Edenton

Durham Hosiery Mill, Durham

Historic Preservation recognizes places from our past that are important to us. Our Homes, Churches, Schools, Workplaces, Parks, Farms, Roadways and Waterways. Neighborhoods, Communities, Towns and Cities,

Both urban

and Rural.