Stranded in Time: Protecting Properties Outside the Period of Significance in Existing Historic Districts

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dc.contributor.authorRuff, Carin
dc.contributor.programMA in Historic Preservationen_US
dc.date.accessioned2016-03-31T16:28:30Z
dc.date.available2016-03-31T16:28:30Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description.abstractHistoric designation captures a judgment about the significance of historic places and their components at a particular moment in time. The classification of resources within a historic district as historically significant or insignificant, contributing or noncontributing, is made at the time of designation on the basis of association with the district's period of significance. Properties outside the period of significance receive a lower level of protection, despite their location in protected historic places. They are subject to alteration that destroys their integrity, as historic district regulations encourage assimilation to the dominant styles of the period of significance. Resources that later generations might come to appreciate as historically significant may, by reason of their status as outliers in older historic settings, not survive intact long enough to receive informed reevaluation. Such reassessment tends, in any case, to be a low priority in local preservation programs.Communities have options for improving the prospects that out-of-period properties will survive long enough to be reappraised for potential historic significance, and that reappraisal will take place. Design guidelines and the terms of new designations can be crafted in ways that recognize the integrity of the historic places as including varied styles. Periodic reassessment of older judgments of historic significance can be integrated into the preservation planning process. Creative application of newer concepts in the preservation field, including flexibility in the National Register criteria, can help built a public constituency for neglected out-of-period properties and thus motivate their eventual reevaluation.en_US
dc.format.extent135 p.en_US
dc.genrethesesen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/M2MT8J
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/2645
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtGoucher College, Baltimore, MD
dc.rightsTo view a complete copy of this thesis please contact Goucher College Special Collections & Archives at archives@goucher.edu or (410) 337-6075.
dc.subjecthistoric preservationen_US
dc.subjecthistoric districtsen_US
dc.subjectNational Register of Historic Places criteriaen_US
dc.subjectperiod of significanceen_US
dc.subjectminimum age requirements in historic preservationen_US
dc.subjectpreservation of modern architectureen_US
dc.subjectrecent past preservationen_US
dc.subjectdesign guidelinesen_US
dc.subjectarchitectural variety in historic districtsen_US
dc.subjectWashington, D.C.en_US
dc.subjectCleveland Park Historic Districten_US
dc.subject.lcshHistoric preservation -- Theses
dc.subject.lcshNational Register of Historic Places
dc.subject.lcshHistoric districts -- Washington (D.C.) -- Preservation.
dc.titleStranded in Time: Protecting Properties Outside the Period of Significance in Existing Historic Districtsen_US
dc.typeTexten_US

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