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<br />DEFINITIONS for Historic Preservation Project Treatments <br /> <br />The following definitions are provided for treatments that may be undertaken on historic <br />properties listed in the National Register of Historic Places: <br /> <br />Acquisition <br /> <br />Is defined as the act or process of acquiring fee title or interest other than fee title of real <br />property (including the acquisition of development rights or remainder interest). <br /> <br />Protection <br /> <br />Is defined as the act or process of applying measures designed to affect the physical <br />condition of a property by defending or guarding it from deterioration, loss or attack, or <br />to cover or shield the property from danger or injury. In the case of buildings and <br />structures, such treatment is generally of a temporary nature and anticipates future <br />historic preservation treatment; in the case of archeological sites, the protective measure <br />may be temporary or permanent. <br /> <br />Stabilization <br /> <br />Is defined as the act or process of applying measures designed to reestablish a weather <br />resistant enclosure and the structural stability of an unsafe or deteriorated property <br />while maintaining the essential form as it exists at present. <br /> <br />Preservation <br /> <br />Is defined as the act or process of applying measures to sustain the existing form, <br />integrity, and material of a building or structure, and the existing form and vegetative <br />cover of a site. It may include initial stabilization work, where necessary, as well as <br />ongoing maintenance of the historic building materials. <br /> <br />Rehabilitation <br /> <br />Is defined as the act or process of returning a property to a state of utility through repair <br />or alteration which makes possible an efficient contemporary use while preserving those <br />portions or features of the property which are significant to its historical, architectural, <br />and cultural values. <br /> <br />Restoration <br /> <br />Is defined as the act or process of accurately recovering the form and details of a property <br />and its setting as it appeared at a particular period of time by means of the removal of later <br />work or by the replacement of missing earlier work. <br /> <br />Reconstruction <br /> <br />Is defined as the act or process of reproducing by new construction the exact form and <br />detail of a vanished building, structure, or object, or a part thereof, as it appeared at a <br />specific period of time. <br /> <br />2 <br />