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REHABILITATION

INTERIOR SPACES, FEATURES, AND FINISHES

RECOMMENDED NOT RECOMMENDED
Identifying, retaining, and preserving a floor plan or interior Altering a floor plan, or interior spaces (including individual rooms),
spaces, features, and finishes that are important in defining features, and finishes, which are important in defining the overall
the overall historic character of the building. Significant spatial historic character of the building so that, as a result, the character
characteristics include the size, configuration, proportion, and is diminished.
relationship of rooms and corridors; the relationship of features to
spaces; and the spaces themselves, such as lobbies, lodge halls, Altering the floor plan by demolishing principal walls and partitions
entrance halls, parlors, theaters, auditoriums, gymnasiums, and for a new use.
industrial and commercial interiors. Color, texture, and pattern
are important characteristics of features and finishes, which can Altering or destroying significant interior spaces by inserting addi­
include such elements as columns, plaster walls and ceilings, tional floors or lofts; cutting through floors to create lightwells, light
flooring, trim, fireplaces and mantels, paneling, light fixtures, courts, or atriums; lowering ceilings; or adding new walls or remov­
hardware, decorative radiators, ornamental grilles and registers, ing historic walls.
windows, doors, and transoms; plaster, paint, wallpaper and wall
coverings, and special finishes, such as marbleizing and graining; Relocating an interior feature, such as a staircase, so that the cir-
and utilitarian (painted or unpainted) features, including wood, culation pattern and the historic relationship between features and
metal, or concrete exposed columns, beams, and trusses and spaces are altered.
exposed load-bearing brick, concrete, and wood walls.
Installing new material that obscures or damages character-defining
interior features or finishes.

Removing paint, plaster, or other finishes from historically-finished
interior surfaces to create a new appearance (e.g., removing plaster
to expose brick walls or a brick chimney breast, stripping paint from
wood to stain or varnish it, or removing a plaster ceiling to expose
unfinished beams).

Applying paint, plaster, or other coatings to surfaces that have been
unfinished historically, thereby changing their character.

Changing the type of finish or its color, such as painting a histori­
cally-varnished wood feature, or removing paint from a historically-
painted feature.

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