Acknowledgements
This Preservation Brief was originally developed as a slide talk/methodology
in 1982 to discuss the use of the Secretary of the Interior's
Standards for Rehabilitation in relation to preserving historic
character; and it was amplified and modified in succeeding years
to help guide preservation decision making, initially for maintenance
personnel in the National Park Service. Please note that many of the figures that were in the printed Brief had to be omitted here; however you can go to a special web site, The Walk-Through--Identifying the Visual Character of Historic Buildings, to study all of Lee Nelson's photos and text presented as a long distance learning program. A number of people contributed
to the evolution of the ideas presented here. Special thanks go
to Emogene Bevitt and Gary Hume, primarily for the many and frequent
discussions relating to this approach in its evolutionary stages;
to Mark Fram, Ontario Heritage Foundation, Toronto, for suggesting
several additions to the Checklist; and more recently, to my coworkers,
both in Washington and in our regional offices, especially Ward
Jandl, Sara Blumenthal, Charles Fisher, Sharon Park, AIA, Jean
Travers, Camille Martone, Susan Dynes, Michael Auer, Anne Grimmer,
Kay Weeks, Betsy Chittenden, Patrick Andrus, Carol Shull, Hugh
Miller, FAIA, Jerry Rogers, Paul Alley, David Look, AIA, Margaret
Pepin-Donat, Bonnie Halda, Keith Everett, Thomas Keohan, the Preservation
Services Division, MidAtlantic Region, and several reviewers in
state preservation offices, especially Ann Haaker, Illinois; and
Stan Graves, AIA, Texas; for providing very critical and constructive
review of the manuscript. Washington, D.C. September, 1988
This publication has been prepared pursuant to the National
Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended, which directs the Secretary
of the Interior to develop and make available information concerning historic
properties. Technical Preservation Services (TPS), Heritage Preservation
Services Division, National Park Service prepares standards, guidelines,
and other educational materials on responsible historic preservation treatments
for a broad public.
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"Architectural Character" an Historic Preservation Brief
