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15 <br />9. New additions, exterior alterations, or related new construction shall not destroy historic materials, <br />features, and spatial relationships that chazacterize the property. The new work shall be differentiated from <br />the old and shall be compatible with the historical materials, features, size, scale, and proportion, and <br />massing to protect the integrity of the property and its environment. <br />10. New additions and adjacent or related new construction shall be undertaken in such a manner that, if <br />removed in the future, the essential form and integrity of the historic property and its environment would be <br />unimpaired <br />REHABILITATION AS A TREATMENT <br />When repair and replacement of deteriorated features are necessary; when alterations or additions <br />to the property aze planned for a new or continued use; and when its depiction at a particular period of time <br />is not appropriate, Rehabilitation may be considered as a treatment. Prior to undertaking work, a <br />documentation plan for Rehabilitation should be developed. <br />RESTORATION is defined as the act or process of accurately depicting the form, features, and character <br />of a property as it appeazed at a particulaz period of time by means of the removal of features from other <br />periods in its history and reconstruction of missing features from the restoration period. The limited and <br />sensitive upgrading of mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems and other code-required work to make <br />properties functional is appropriate within a restoration project. <br />STANDARDS FOR RESTORATION <br />L A property shall be used as it was historically or be given a new use which reflects the property's <br />restoration period. <br />2. Materials and features from the restoration period shall be retained and preserved. The removal of <br />materials or alteration of features, spaces, and spatial relationships that characterize the period shall not be <br />undertaken. <br />3. Each property shall be recognized as a physical record of its time, place, and use. Work needed to <br />stabilize, consolidate, and conserve materials and features from the restoration period shall be physically <br />and visually compatible, identifiable upon close inspection, and properly documented for future research. <br />4. Materials, features, spaces, and fmishes that characterize other historical periods shall be documented <br />prior to their alteration or removal. <br />5. Distinctive materials, features, finishes, and construction techniques or examples of craftsmanship that <br />characterize the restoration period shall be preserved. . <br />6. Deteriorated features from the restoration period shall be repaired rather than replaced. Where the <br />severity of deterioration requires replacement of a distinctive feature, the new feature shall match the old in <br />design, color, texture, and where possible, materials. <br />7. Replacement of missing features from the restoration period shall be substantiated by documentary and <br />physical evidence. A false sense of history shall not be created by adding conjectural features, features <br />from other properties, or by combining features that never existed together historically. <br />8. Chemical or physical treatments, if appropriate, shall be undertaken using the gentlest means possible. <br />Treatments that cause damage to historic materials shall not be used. <br />12 <br />