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• THE SECRETARY OF INTERIOR'S REHABILITATION STANDARDS 1 . Every reasonable effort shall be made to composition, design, color, texture, and other provide a compatible use for a property that visual qualities. Repair or replacement of missing requires minimal alteration of the building architectural features should be based on structure, or site and its environment, or to use a accurate duplications of features, substantiated property for its originally intended purpose. by historical, physical, or pictorial evidence rather than on conjectural designs or the availability of 2. The distinguishing original qualities or different architectural elements from other character of a building, structure, or site and its buildings or structures. , environment shall not be destroyed. The rimoval or alteration of any historic material or 7. The surface cleaning of structures shall distinctive architectural features should be be undertaken with the gentlest means possible. avoided when possible. Sandblasting and other cleaning methods that will damage the historic building materials shall 3. All buildings, structures, and sites shall not be undertaken. be recognized as products of their own time. Alterations which have no historical basis and 8. Every reasonable effort shall be made to which seek to create an earlier appearance shall protect and preserve archeological resources be discouraged. affected by, or adjacent to any acquisition, protection, stabilization, preservation, 4. Changes, which may have taken place in rehabilitation, restoration, or reconstruction the course of time, are evidence of the history project. and development of a building, structure, or site and its environment. These changes may have 9. Contemporary design for alterations and acquired significance in their own right, and this additions to existing properties shall not be significance shall be recognized and respected. discouraged when such alterations and additions _ do not destroy significant historic, architectural, 5. Distinctive stylistic features or examples or cultural material and such design Is compatible of skilled craftsmanship, which characterize a with the size, scale, color, material, and character building, structure, or site, shall be treated with of the property, neighborhood, or environment. sensitivity. • . 6, Deteriorated architectural features shall 10. Wherever possible, new additions or be repaired rather than replaced, wherever alterations to structures shall be done in such a possible. manner that if such additions or alterations were In the event replacement is necessary, to be removed in the future, the essential form the new material should match the material bring and integrity of the structure would be replaced In unimpaired. • • r r