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Working to advance and preserve the arts at the center of Vermont communities.
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- A property will be used as it was historically, or be given a new use
that requires minimal change to its distinctive materials, features, spaces,
and spatial relationships.
- The historic character of a property will be retained and preserved.
The removal of distinctive materials or alteration of features, spaces,
and spatial relationships that characterize a property will be avoided.
- Each property will 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 elements from other historic properties,
will not be undertaken.
- Changes to a property that have acquired historic significance in their
own right will be retained and preserved.
- Distinctive materials, finishes, and construction techniques or examples
of craftsmanship that characterize a property will be preserved.
- Deteriorated historic features will be repaired rather than replaced.
Where the severity of deterioration requires replacement of a distinctive
feature, the new feature will match the old in design, color, texture, and,
where possible, materials. Replacement of missing features will be substantiated
by documentary and physical evidence.
- Chemical or physical treatments, if appropriate, will be undertaken using
the gentlest means possible. Treatments that cause damage to historic materials
will not be used.
- Archeological resources will be protected and preserved in place. If
such resources must be disturbed, mitigation measures shall be undertaken.
- New additions, exterior alterations, or related new construction will
not destroy historic materials, features, and spatial relationships that
characterize the property. The new work shall be differentiated from the
old and will be compatible with the historic materials, features, size,
scale and proportion and massing to protect the integrity of the property
and its environment.
- New additions and adjacent or related new construction will 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.
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