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State Historic Preservation Office briefs Landmark Commission on Secretary of the Interior preservation standards
Summary
A preservation architect from the Utah State Historic Preservation Office presented the Secretary of the Interior Standards, explaining preservation, rehabilitation, restoration and reconstruction treatments and the 10 rehabilitation standards the commission uses to evaluate projects.
Jansen Bennett, preservation architect with the Utah State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO), briefed the Salt Lake City Historic Landmark Commission on the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties and guidance from the National Park Service.
Bennett summarized four broad treatment approaches — preservation, rehabilitation, restoration and reconstruction — and emphasized that rehabilitation is the most commonly applied standard in local practice because it allows compatible new uses while preserving character-defining features. He…
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