Excelsior Springs, Missouri Historic Preservation Design Guidelines

From the Introduction: "The City of Excelsior Springs, Missouri has a strong commitment to historic preservation and protecting its designated historic resources. To encourage the rehabilitation, preservation and protecting its designated historic resources. To encourage the rehabilitation, preservation, and restoration of historically and architecturally significant properties, the City had designated three local historic districts - the Boarding House Historic District, the Elms Historic District, and the Hall of Water Historic District. By ordinance (Section 402 of the City of Excelsior Springs), any proposed alteration to the exterior of a property located within a local historic district is subject to review by the City's Historic Preservation Commission. These design guidelines should assist property owners when developing the proposed work to their historic property and referenced by the Historic Preservation Commission when considering an application for a Certificate of Appropriateness. This Historic Preservation Design Guidelines is based on 'The Secretary of the Interior's Standard for Rehabilitation' (reference Chapter 7) and accepted historic preservation practices. The intent of the Excelsior Springs Historic Preservation Design Guidelines is to assist business owners, homeowners, and developers in their pursuit to maintain and rehabilitate historic buildings and to construct new buildings within the local historic districts. These guidelines are not intended to inhibit change, new construction, or contemporary design, as long as such changes complement the existing buildings and streetscapes. The design guidelines are flexible to encourage rehabilitation and required life-safety upgrades while preserving the historic integrity of historic properties...." Project funding was provided in part by a Historic Preservation Fund grant to the Missouri State Historic Preservation Office, Department of Natural Resources, administered by the State, Tribal, Local Plans and Grants division, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior (grant number P19AF00084).

Excelsior Springs, Missouri Historic Preservation Design Guidelines

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