ARCH 5325 Conservation Policies

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ARCH 5325Conservation Policies

• Documentation and Designation of Properties
  (Chapter 5)

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Historical Significance

• A propertys relative importance based on two
  factors
• Historical or cultural importance and/or
• Architectural importance

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Four Criteria for Evaluation (National Register
of Historic Places)

• Association with events that made a significant
  contribution to the road patterns of American
  History
• Association with the life of a significant person
  (not usually birthplaces or graves)

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• The property has distinctive architectural
  features of type, period, method of construction,
  or high artistic values
• The property or its site yields or has the
  potential to yield important information in
  history or prehistory

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Criteria for Exclusion from the National Register
(Usually)

• Cemeteries or birthplaces
• Religious properties
• Relocated structures
• Reconstructed buildings
• Statues or commemorative structures
• Buildings less than 50 years old

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• Consider the impact on the built environment
  (neighborhoods
• and districts) due to
• Era of Significance
• Road Patterns
• Economic factors
• Industry
• Human Diversity
• Value Systems

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Differentiate between the value system
operational in suburban communities from the
value system operational in more urban communities
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• Common city-wide values
• Neighborhood values
• Minority values
• Hispanic
• African American
• Oriental
• Native American