The Value of Preservation: understanding and applying the principles of historic preservation | Redlands, CA - McNaughton Architectural Inc

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The Value of Preservation

Shan McNaughton, AIAMcNaughton Architecture, Inc.Architect C-28575

A Brief History of the Historic Preservation Movement in the United States

“The only mass popular movement to affect critically the course of architecture in our century”

Vincent Scully

Preservation Timeline

1853: Mount Vernon (George Washington’s house) bought by Ann Pamela Cunningham (Mount Vernon Ladies Association) for its protection.

1910: Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities is established. Federal Antiquities Act is established.

1949: The National Trust for Historic Preservation is established with an official charter from Congress.

1966: The National Historic Preservation Act of 1966. The National Park Service joins the National Trust.A national registry of historic buildings is set up.Tax benefits aid approved rehabilitation work.Standards Established.

Secretary of the Interior’s Standardsfor the Treatment of Historic Properties

With Guidelines for Preserving, Rehabilitating, Restoring & Reconstructing Historic Buildings

Standards for Rehabilitation

1. A property shall be used for its historic purpose or be placed in a new use that requires minimal change to the defining characteristics of the building and its site and environment.

2. The historic character of a property shall be retained and preserved. The removal of historic materials or alteration of features and spaces that characterize a property shall be avoided.


3. Each property shall be recognized as a physical record of its time, place, and use. Changes that create a false sense of historical development, such as adding conjectural features or architectural elements from other buildings, shall not be undertaken.

4. Most properties change over time; those changes that have acquired historic significance in their own right shall be retained and preserved.


5. Distinctive features, finishes, and construction techniques or examples of craftsmanship that characterize a historic property shall be preserved.

6. Deteriorated historic features shall be repaired rather than replaced. Where the severity of deterioration requires replacement of a distinctive feature, the new feature shall match the old in design, color, texture, and other visual qualities and, where possible, materials. Replacement of missing features shall be substantiated by documentary, physical, or pictorial evidence.


7. Chemical or physical treatments, such as sandblasting, that cause damage to historic materials shall not be used. The surface cleaning of structures, if appropriate, shall be undertaken using the gentlest means possible.

8. Significant archeological resources affected by a project shall be protected and preserved. If such resources must be disturbed, mitigation measures shall be undertaken.


9. New additions, exterior alterations, or related new construction shall not destroy historic materials that characterize the property. The new work shall be differentiated from the old and shall be compatible with the massing, size, scale, and architectural features to protect the historic integrity of the property and its environment.

10. New additions and adjacent or related new construction shall be undertaken in such a manner that if removed in the future, the essential form and integrity of the historic property and its environment would be unimpaired.

The Value of Preservation

Real Estate Value: Historic Buildings properly restored and preserved generally

yield higher real estate values than similar new construction because of their intrinsic historic qualities.

Sustainable Value: Rehabilitation of an old building is conservation of energy;

the embodied energy contained within the materials of its construction are preserved.

Heritage Value Heritage Tourism is a growing industry that has a myriad of

benefits. Revitalization attracts new investment and business.

Inappropriate Vs. Appropriate

The cost of inappropriate treatments is higher in the long run and de-values the building.

Inappropriate treatments must be removed and replaced with period appropriate elements in order to meet the Standards.

Understanding and Applying the Standards

Inappropriate Window replacement






Inappropriate Awnings








Inappropriate Materials






Inappropriate Porch Columns


Inappropriate Railings






Inappropriate Roof Elements


Inappropriate Roof Elements


Inappropriate Additions

Our Heritage

Our historical heritage is embodied within the buildings of Redlands. Our benefactors were giants who contributed generously their wisdom, grace and culture to give our town an elevated, cultivated quality.

The Smiley Brothers

Grace Mullen

Ben Barton

Albert Burrage

Robert Watchorn

Mary Shirk

Preservation of our buildings honors the high value of heritage our founders established as a cultivated city.

Preservation Matters

Buildings such as the Morey Mansion and the Holt Residence celebrate architecture, and set the bar appropriately high for Redlands.

Through sensitive preservation of our historical buildings, we honor our predecessors and further the prestige accomplished by these great works of architecture.

Preservation Matters:

Old buildings are a privilege to work on because they have a story to tell. Often unique artifacts are found in walls, between layers of floor, in attics and basements that help tell the story. Preservation ultimately is about stripping away the

ill-conceived treatments and inappropriate layers to reveal the genuine (original) buried beneath.

Preservation gives the building a new and enhanced life.

Rehabilitation

Historic Jay D. Clark Residence. Built 1887

Presently: McNaughton Residence. 2015

Rehabilitation

Inappropriate Addition removed to allow for New Addition

After: Addition and Rehabilitation 2009

Before: Addition Built 1905

Rehabilitation and Adaptive Use

Original Cistern discovery

Preservation

Restoration of original brick masonry

Preservation

Historic newspapers found between layers of flooring

Original nails found

Applying the Standards

Window Treatments

If windows must be replaced due to severity of deterioration,

replace them with like material and match detail.

This window meets the Standard.

Applying the Standards

Differentiating the new from the original

Rehabilitation

Transitional Period: Addition and Remodel

After: Addition and Remodel 2008

Before: Built 1910

Rehabilitation

Queen Anne Victorian: Addition and Remodel

After: Addition and Remodel 2008Before:

Built 1901

Rehabilitation

Historic Normandy Court: Attic Conversion/Remodel

After: Conversion and Remodel 2004

Before: Built 1925

Rehabilitation

Historic Heritage Hall: Adaptive Use

2015

Before: Built 1922 Photo from 1989

Proposed Restaurant Adaptive Use

Rehabilitation

Historic Barton Schoolhouse: Adaptive Use and Restoration

After: Restoration 2015

Before: Built 1901