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HEMA No. 2024-02 – The Dinsmore House (222 S. Cypress Avenue) November 7, 2024 Page 4 4 6 3 5 2. The historic character of a property shall be retained and preserved. The removal of historic materials or alteration of features and spaces that characterize a property shall be avoided. As conditioned, the project complies with Standard No. 2. Project elements are designed generally to restore the historic character of the subject property. That goal will be achieved chiefly through the restoration of existing vinyl windows with replacements consistent with the house’s historic Queen Anne- and Greek Revival-style character. Installation of new windows may involve a negligible loss of historic fabric due the necessary modifications of some surrounds and would serve the more pressing object of removing and replacing the existing incompatible vinyl windows. Additional work to repair and replace damaged trim, siding, and fascia may require additional removal of characteristic historic materials, but would replace damaged materials in-kind and only as a last resort, when more conservative repair options are not available. 3. Each property will be recognized as a physical record of its time, place, and use. Changes that create a false sense of historical development, such as adding conjectural features or elements from other historic properties, will not be undertaken. The project complies with Standard No. 3. because he proposed changes will not create a false sense of historical development. The project would restore nearly all the house’s windows at 16 historic and three non-historic window openings. National Park Service guidance recommends that, “the replacement windows may be an accurate restoration using historical, pictorial, and physical documentation; or be a new design that is compatible with the window openings and the historic character of the building.” Definitive documentation of the original designs of the windows of the Dinsmore House is not available. In in the absence of definitive documentation of the original design, the project proposes simple single-light one- over-one wood sashes, which would be consistent with the relatively modest character of the building and the conventions of the house’s Queen Anne and Greek Revival influences. The new windows would be double-hung, fixed, and awning, depending on the historical operability at each location. As proposed, the replacement of the back porch handrail would remove a non- historic metal feature of incompatible design and replace it with a new handrail whose wood material and overall design and appearance would be based on the physical evidence embodied in the existing historic hand rails located at the front of the house and therefore would be consistent with the historical development of the house. 4. Changes to a property that have acquired historic significance in their own right will be retained and preserved.