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historic preservation  

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  • Historic preservation is historical method and includes conserving, rehabilitating, restoring, and reconstructing the built environment as a useful primary source for the study and interpretation of history. Historians have not always recognized its value, and the historic preservation movement developed to some degree without their participation. [Source: Encyclopedia of American Urban History; Historic Preservation]

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