Caring for the Past: Preserving Rehabilitating and Restoring Historic Buildings.

摘要

In the 70s, the National Park Service saw a critical need for guidance to ensure that historic buildings were properly treated. Homeowners working on historic buildings did not have access to reliable, accurate information on appropriate preservation and rehabilitation techniques and products. As a result, building materials and features were being lost to destructive approaches, such as improper cleaning, poor repointing, and incompatible replacement windows. The Service's first challenge in reversing these trends was to develop professional Standards that were common sense principles against which project work could be weighed. As such, the Secretary of the Interior's Standards are the bulwark of the program and distinguish it from every other program in the nation. They were designed to address a variety of treatments, such as preservation, rehabilitation, restoration, and reconstruction, and have been revised throughout the years to reflect the most recent technologies. The Standards are in evidence in each technical publication produced by Technical Preservation Services (TPS).