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Four Treatment Approaches

The Secretary of the Interior's Standards for the
Treatment of Historic Properties

There are standards for four distinct, but interrelated, approaches to the treatment of historic properties - Preservation, Rehabilitation, Restoration, and Reconstruction.

  • 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 consolidated under this treatment.)
  • Rehabilitation acknowledges the need to alter or add to a historic property to meet continuing or changing uses while retaining the property's historic character.
  • Restoration depicts a property at a particular period of time in its history, while removing evidence of other periods.
  • Reconstruction re-creates vanished or non-surviving portions of a property for interpretive purposes.

2002 - Volume 33, Issue 1

MORE FROM THIS ISSUE

President's Message


Executive Director Report


Coronado Railroad Receives Historic Designation

Red Roost and Red Rest Legal Campaign


Return of the West Arcade


Theatre at the Whaley House


Daniel Slosberg is Pierre Cruzatte


Living History at the Whaley House


Redevelopment & Black Historic Preservation

SOHO Arts and Crafts Weekend 2002


Old House Fair

Getting to Know Your San Diego


Iron Road of the Californias


Volunteer Profile: Ruth Martinson

Events and Education


Thank You, Jessica McGee


Efforts to Save SS Catalina Continue


Ballpark Preservation Program Update


Four Treatment Approaches for Historic Properties

Proposition 40 Passes


Thank Yous


SOHO Thanks Longtime Members


Strength in Numbers


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