Aesthetic value:
Aesthetic and natural beauty values derive from the ways in which people draw sensory and intellectual stimulation from a place.
Conservation:
All measures and actions taken toward the long-term safeguarding of cultural heritage while ensuring its accessibility to present and future generations.
Conservation actions include examination, documentation, treatment, and preventive care supported by research and education.
All conservation measures and actions should respect the significance, heritage values, and physical characteristics of the cultural heritage item, site, or place in question.
Conservation Management Plan:
A document which sets out the significance of a heritage asset, and how that significance will be retained in any future use, management, alteration or repair.
Cyclical Maintenance:
Routine, scheduled maintenance of building components, assemblies, and systems occurring on a predetermined interval to improve performance, extend service life, and preempt failure.
Deferred maintenance:
Maintenance or repairs to fixed assets that were not performed as scheduled or in sequence, and are put off to a future period.
Activities include preventative maintenance, replacement of parts, systems or components; and other activities needed to preserve or maintain the asset.
Educational Value:
Educational values are present in all value categories as they speak to the capacity and potential of a site to offer knowledge about or insight into the past.
Historical Value:
The ways in which past people, events and aspects of life can be connected through a place to the present.
Integrity:
Integrity is the ability of a property to convey its significance.
The National Park Service defines historic integrity as the ability of a property to convey its historical associations or attributes.
Both the National Historic Landmarks (NHL) and National Register of Historic Places (NR) programs use seven aspects of integrity to evaluate properties: location, setting, design, materials, workmanship, feeling, and association.
The integrity of these associations and attributes helps define a site or object’s significance.
Preservation:
the act or process of applying measures necessary to sustain the existing form, integrity, and materials of an historic property.
Work, including preliminary measures to protect and stabilize the property, generally focuses upon the ongoing maintenance and repair of historic materials and features rather than extensive replacement and new construction.
The limited and sensitive upgrading of mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems and other code-required work to make properties functional is appropriate within a preservation project. However, new exterior additions are not within the scope of this treatment.
The Standards for Preservation require retention of the greatest amount of historic fabric along with the building’s historic form.
Preservation capital:
Funding for major conservation projects; development of new research, interpretation and programming initiatives; other related upgrades associated with the historic Pine Building, landscape, and collections.
Preservation mission operating costs:
Annual expenses associated with staffing, regular programming, collections maintenance and preventive care.
Preventive conservation:
The policies and practices taken to assure the protection of cultural heritage from environmentally induced damage.
Such policies and practices are carried out within the context or on the surroundings of an object or site; actions are thus indirect and do not interfere directly with the materials or structures of the object or site.
They do not modify their appearance or the identified heritage values of the object or site.