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Board reviews Secretary of the Interior standards in training; staff to apply for $25,000 historic-preservation grant
Summary
The Arkansas City Historic Preservation Board watched a recorded training on the Secretary of the Interior's Standards and learned staff will apply for a $25,000 Historic Preservation Fund grant to revise the downtown district, with city commission support and an anticipated consultant procurement.
Board members viewed a recorded training Jan. 27 that reviewed the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation and discussed a proposed Historic Preservation Fund grant application staff plans to submit to revise the downtown historic district.
The training was led by Katrina Wrangler (recorded presentation from a Lawrence historic board meeting). Wrangler reviewed the standards used nationwide when assessing changes to historic properties, including the importance of character-defining features, repairing rather than replacing historic materials, avoiding conjectural restorations without evidence, and designing new work to be differentiated yet compatible with…
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