Illinois Administrative Code › Title 17 - CONSERVATION › Part 4110 - HISTORIC PRESERVATION GRANTS-IN-AID PROGRAM › Section 4110.10 - Eligibility

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
a) An application
			 for acquisition or development funding assistance must be associated with a
			 site or structure which has been nominated by the State Historic Preservation
			 Officer (Director of the Department of Conservation) to the National Register
			 of Historic Places.
b) An
			 application for preservation planning funding assistance must be associated
			 with a site, structure, or area which has been nominated by the State Historic
			 Preservation Officer (Director of the Department of Conservation) to the
			 National Register of Historic Places, or which has potential for nomination to
			 the National Register of Historic Places.
c) The components of an acquisition or
			 development project must be in accordance with the U.S. Secretary of the
			 Interior's Standards for Acquisition and Development Projects. The following
			 standards apply to all treatments undertaken on historic properties listed in
			 the National Register:
1) Every reasonable
			 effort shall be made to provide a compatible use for a property that requires
			 minimal alteration of the building, structure, or site and its environment, or
			 to use a property for its originally intended purpose.
2) The distinguishing original qualities or
			 character of a building, structure, or site and its environment shall not be
			 destroyed. The removal or alteration of any historic material or distinctive
			 architectural features shall be avoided when possible.
3) All buildings, structures, and sites shall
			 be recognized as products of their own time. Alterations which have no
			 historical basis and which seek to create an earlier appearance shall be
			 discouraged.
4) Changes which may
			 have taken place in the course of time are evidence of the history and
			 development of a building, structure, or site and its environment. These
			 changes may have acquired significance in their own right and this significance
			 shall be recognized and respected.
5) Distinctive stylistic features or examples
			 of skilled craftsmanship which characterizes a building, structure, or site,
			 shall be treated with sensitivity.
6) Deteriorated architectural features shall
			 be repaired rather than replaced whenever possible. In the event replacement is
			 necessary the new material should match the material being replaced in
			 composition, design, color, texture, and other visual qualities. Repair or
			 replacement of missing architectural features should be based on accurate
			 duplications of features, substantiated by historical, physical, or pictorial
			 evidence rather than on conjectural designs or the availability of different
			 architectural elements from other buildings or structures.
7) The surface cleaning of structures shall
			 be undertaken with the gentlest means possible. Sandblasting and other cleaning
			 methods that will damage the historic building materials shall not be
			 undertaken.
8) Every reasonable
			 effort shall be made to protect and preserve archeological resources affected
			 by, or adjacent to, any acquisition, protection, stabilization, preservation,
			 rehabilitation, restoration, or reconstruction project.