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29 Cards in this Set
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Distinctive Features of Greek Revival
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-Gabled/Hipped Roof
-porches with columns -narrow sidelights on front door w/ transom -cornice emphasized by wide band of trim |
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Distinctive Features of Adam (Federal)
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-semi-circular/elliptical fanlight (sidelights often incorporated into door surround with elaborate crown and small entry porch)
-cornice with dentils -6-pane double hung windows -5, 4 and a door (symmetrical) |
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Distinctive Features of Italianate
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-2 or 3 stories, rarely 1
-tall, narrow windows, commonly arched/curved above -wide, overhanging eaves w/ decorative brackets -low pitched roof -frequently have decorative window crowns |
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Distinctive Features of Gothic Revival
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-steeply pitched roof, w/ steep cross gables
-gables w/ decorated vergeboards -windows extend into gables with pointed arch (gothic) shape |
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Distinctive Features of Queen Anne
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-steeply pitched roof of irregular shape
-textured shingles and other devices to avoid smooth-walled appearance -asymmetrical facade -one story partial to full width porch extending to one or both side walls. |
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Distinctive Features of Romanesque
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-normally asymmetrical facade
-masonry walls-- rough, squared stonework -round arches over windows, entrance, porch supports -most have towers with conical roofs. |
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Distinctive Features of Two Part Commercial Block
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-2 to 4 stories
-2 distinct "zones," clearly separated, horizontally divided -upper level more private, bottom level more commercial |
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Distinctive Features of Three Part Vertical Block
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-three zones, separated, horizontally divided
-distinctive upper level of 1-3 stories -facades often have classical columns |
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Preservation
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Applying measures necessary to
sustain the existing form, integrity, and materials of a historic property. |
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Restoration
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Accurately depicting the form, features and character of a property as it appeared
at a particular period of time by means of the removal of features from other periods in its history and reconstruction of missing features from the restoration period. |
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Reconstruction
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The act or process of
depicting, by means of new construction, the form, features, and detailing of a non- surviving site, landscape, building, structure, or object for the purpose of replicating its appearance at a specific period of time and in its historic location. |
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Rehabilitation
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Adaptive use. A suitable approach when existing historic features are damaged or deteriorated but modifications can be made to update portions of the structure, even for a new purpose.
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Founder of Mount Vernon Ladies' Association
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Ann-Pamela Cunningham
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Yellowstone National Park established
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1872
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Antiquities Act
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1906
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National Park Service Established
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1916
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Colonial Williamsburg
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1926
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Charleston Historic District Established:
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1931
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Historic American Buildings Survey [HABS] Begins
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1934
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Historic Sites Act
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1935
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National Trust for Historic Preservation Established
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1949
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National Historic Preservation Act
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1966: National Register of Historic Places, Advisory Council for Historic Places, State Historic Preservation Office
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1926: Village of Euclid v. Amber
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Zoning is a valid exercise of police power.
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1954: Berman v. Parker
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Aesthetics alone is a valid exercise of
police power. |
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Tout ensemble
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The idea that the
character of an area is derived from its entirety, or the sum of its parts, rather than from the character of its individual buildings. |
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Department of Transportation Act
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1966: That section provides that if a federal transportation project will take property from an historic site or a park, the Secretary of Transportation cannot approve the project unless there are no prudent or feasible alternatives.
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Tax Reform Act of 1976.
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That Act created a tax
incentive program for the rehabilitation of historic properties which encouraged those already interested in old buildings to rehabilitate them but also offered economic incentives to developers, who previously had no particular interest in historic structures. |
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Viollet-le-Duc
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Considered the first restoration architect. Restored buildings not how they were, but "how they should have been..." according to him.
Added new elements and embelishments HE deemed appropriate, not what was actually there. |
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John Ruskin
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Believed historical buildings should remain untouched, that restoration in any way would falsify their originality, like plastic surgery.
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