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Golden Gate National Recreational Area
Preservation
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"Historic preservation” is the act or process of applying measures necessary to sustain the exiting form, integrity and materials of a historic property. For example, a preservation project can be converting a historic army barracks into an office building or re-using a historic airplane hangar as a small aviation museum. All National Park Service preservation projects must comply with . The preservation guidelines exist to ensure that careful analysis is conducted before the professionals make any physical changes to historic structures and landscapes. Because of these preservation guidelines, you should be able to walk into that new office building or aviation museum and still feel and understand how that historic building was originally used.
Here at Golden Gate National Recreation Area, we preserve and rehabilitate many different kinds of cultural resources, including historic buildings, artifacts, archeology, structures and landscapes. Our historic preservation professionals include historic architects, historic landscape architects, historians, architectural historians, archeologists, planners, conservators and archivists. Before we start any project, we:
- conduct research to fully understand the historic significance of the resource
- evaluate all alternatives to determine levels of impact
- weigh all decisions to ensure the safety and future of the resource.
Here are some examples of the park’s most recent rehabilitation projects:
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Learn about the preservation project that carefully rebuilt porches back onto the historic Fort Baker army barracks.
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Learn about the volunteer preservation efforts in making this World War II battery open to the public.
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Learn about the labor-intensive process of restoring historic metal-pressed ceilings.
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Learn about the cultural landscape efforts to redefine Fort Baker's historic parade ground.
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Did You Know?
Geologists sometimes call Franciscan pillow basalt “greenstone” because it contains green minerals formed in an interaction between the basalt and hot, mineral-rich seawater.
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Last Updated: November 04, 2008 at 15:57 EST |