Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 12, March 22, 2024
a) An application
for acquisition or development funding assistance must be associated with a
site or structure which has been nominated by the State Historic Preservation
Officer (Director of the Department of Conservation) to the National Register
of Historic Places.
b) An
application for preservation planning funding assistance must be associated
with a site, structure, or area which has been nominated by the State Historic
Preservation Officer (Director of the Department of Conservation) to the
National Register of Historic Places, or which has potential for nomination to
the National Register of Historic Places.
c) The components of an acquisition or
development project must be in accordance with the U.S. Secretary of the
Interior's Standards for Acquisition and Development Projects. The following
standards apply to all treatments undertaken on historic properties listed in
the National Register:
1) Every reasonable
effort shall be made to provide a compatible use for a property that requires
minimal alteration of the building, structure, or site and its environment, or
to use a property for its originally intended purpose.
2) The distinguishing original qualities or
character of a building, structure, or site and its environment shall not be
destroyed. The removal or alteration of any historic material or distinctive
architectural features shall be avoided when possible.
3) All buildings, structures, and sites shall
be recognized as products of their own time. Alterations which have no
historical basis and which seek to create an earlier appearance shall be
discouraged.
4) Changes which may
have taken place in the course of time are evidence of the history and
development of a building, structure, or site and its environment. These
changes may have acquired significance in their own right and this significance
shall be recognized and respected.
5) Distinctive stylistic features or examples
of skilled craftsmanship which characterizes a building, structure, or site,
shall be treated with sensitivity.
6) Deteriorated architectural features shall
be repaired rather than replaced whenever possible. In the event replacement is
necessary the new material should match the material being replaced in
composition, design, color, texture, and other visual qualities. Repair or
replacement of missing architectural features should be based on accurate
duplications of features, substantiated by historical, physical, or pictorial
evidence rather than on conjectural designs or the availability of different
architectural elements from other buildings or structures.
7) The surface cleaning of structures shall
be undertaken with the gentlest means possible. Sandblasting and other cleaning
methods that will damage the historic building materials shall not be
undertaken.
8) Every reasonable
effort shall be made to protect and preserve archeological resources affected
by, or adjacent to, any acquisition, protection, stabilization, preservation,
rehabilitation, restoration, or reconstruction project.
