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DESIGN & HISTORIC PRESERVATION


HISTORIC PRESERVATION

 

Singer buildingThe City’s historic preservation program promotes the identification, evaluation, rehabilitation, adaptive use, and restoration of historic structures. The links below will guide you to a wide variety of detailed information about the City's designated and surveyed historic properties and districts; the process and criteria related to the designation of historic sites and districts and the process for obtaining a Certificate of Appropriateness for new construction, alterations, additions, relocations, or demolitions within a historic site or district. This map link shows all of the designated historic districts within the city.

 

Please select one of the following options for more information about the City’s Historic Preservation Program:

 

The 2010 Historic Preservation Awards were presented on May 27th at Caltech’s Dabney Hall.  Click this link for more information and photos of the award winners.

 

Click on this link to review a     presentation about Mid-Twentieth-Century properties that were recently listed in the National Register of Historic Places

 

Click on this link to view a presentation about historic preservation work that was done in 2009 (presented to the Historic Preservation Commission at their February 16, 2010 meeting).

 

Find detailed information and photographs of properties that have been designated as historic resources or included in a recent historic resources survey as well as historic context reports and National Register nominations with this tutorial and link

 

Learn about a new project to study all residential buildings in the city built between 1881 and 1904

 

Download historic preservation documents including application forms, submittal requirements, brochures, etc.

 

View historic building footprint maps

 

Read the Historic Preservation chapter of the Zoning Code

 

Click to learn what historic resources surveys are and why they are conducted

 

Learn who is appointed to serve on the Commission and to view meeting agendas and minutes

 

Learn about the various benefits that apply to designated historic properties, including the State Historic Building Code, Historic Property Contract (Mills Act), Rehabilitation Tax Credit, etc

 

Read answers to frequently asked questions about designating an individual property as a landmark

 

Read answers to frequently asked questions about designating a grouping of properties as a landmark district

 

View the standards that are used to review changes to designated or eligible historic buildings

 

View buildings that need to be relocated to a new location and to find out the steps involved in relocating a building

 

Click to be directed to an article in Preservation Magazine’s about how to make your historic home environmentally friendly

 

First Lutheran Church

Clark Residence

 photo by Julius Shulman

 
     

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Last modified on July 12, 2010