Reasons for Historic Preservation

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Reasons for Historic Preservation

• Need due to deterioration
• Urban center revitalization
• Economic
• Preservation of Neighborhood
• Infrastructure

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Why Preservation

• Creates jobs in construction
• Improves property values
• Brings hope and commitment to previously hopeless
  neighborhoods.
• Reduces crime
• Improves business, tourism and image
• Utilizes underutilized infrastructure
• Slows suburbanization, urban sprawl

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ARCH 5325Conservation Policies

• Chapter 2
• The Preservation Movement in the United States

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• Preservation or the maintenance of
• buildings has been around
• for a long time
• Concerted efforts began in the
• 1500s in Western Europe

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Private Efforts 19th C Americans began to save
homes of patriots and other places where historic
events took place. Mount Vernon Ladies
Association first preservation group. 1924 San
Antonio Conservation Society
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Federal Efforts Antiquities Act of 1906. Only
for federally owned propertiesMesa Verde,
battlefields, and other sites
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• 1916National Park Service created

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• 1934 Historic American Building Survey
  (HABS)depression era project for site of
  national significance
• 1969 Historic American Engineering Record (HAER)
• 2000 Historic American Landscape Survey (HALS)

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• National Trust for Historic Preservation
• 1949

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• Mid-20th C.
• Other buildings became more important
• Criteria began to include
• connections with the
• quality of a building
• the architect
• more modest buildings
• age

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• 1966 National Historic Preservation Act
• encourages local historic districtscontext of
  individual buildings
• enabling legislation to fund preservation
  activities
• encouraged owners of private properties to
  preserve while not interfering with ownership
  rights

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• 1966 National Historic Preservation Act
• Created
• The National Register of Historic Places
• State Historic Preservation Officers
• Advisory Council on Historic Preservation

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SHPOTexas Historical Commission

• Responsible for surveys of historic sites and
  properties throughout the state
• Processes nominations to the NRHP
• Administers grants (when available)

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SHPOTexas Historical Commission

• Advises and assists local efforts
• Provides consultation on Section 106 Review
• Reviews applications for federal investment tax
  credits (or state) when available

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• 1966 Preservation Act also led to
• The creation of the Local Historic Preservation
  Officer
• Certified Local Governmentgrants
• Urban Design Commissions
• and local organizations

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Certified Local Governments

• Must have established a historic preservation
  commission with powers of review
• Must tie its system of surveying historic
  properties to the SHPOs procedures
• Must be willing to enforce state and local
  preservation ordinances
• Must have a designated local historic
  preservation officer

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• Main Street Program1980

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Building Collections Colonial Williamsburg1926
Greenfield Village1929 Corpus Christi
Heritage Park Dallas Heritage Center National
Ranching Heritage Center1976 Muleshoe Heritage
Center
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Chapter 3Historic Districts

• Charleston, SC 1931 Historic Zoning ordinance to
  protect existing buildings.
• 2nd Ordinance Vieux Carre Old French Quarter in
  New Orleans 1936
• 1939 San Antonio ordinance.
• 1958 Santa Fe ordinance

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• Reasons for Ordinance

• Threat of loss of significant properties for
  protection
• Control of New developmentloss of character
• Encourage new developmentdeterioration of assets
  or loss of revenue
• Tool for maintaining or stabilizing property
  values

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• Districts in Lubbock
• TTU
• 19th Street
• South Overton
• Broadway
• Depot District
• Original Square Mile

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• Districts can be contiguous or non-contiguous
  (more difficult)
• The group together is more significant than
  individual buildings
• Examples Overton or Depot District,
  Fredericksburg, TX

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• Must have unifying elements
• Age
• Design
• Era
• Historic
• Residential or Commercial or Industrial
• Buildings can be contributing or non-contributing
• Range of High, Medium or Low Integrity

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• Boundaries
• Must be logical
• Have integrity
• High ratio of historic to non-historic

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• Submission of request for designation
• Historical Significance
• Map
• of historic to non-historic, significant to
  non-significant, contributing to non-contributing
• Description of buildingssurvey
• Photographs

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• Ordinance should have no conflict with building
  code or zoning ordinance
• Must have objective rational standards or
  criteria, and be clear

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• How do you get buy-in from constituents