ASHRAE Journal - December 2019 - 52

ASHRAE - CELEBRATING 125 YEARS

Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation3
1. A property shall be used for its historic purpose or be
placed in a new use that requires minimal change to the
deﬁning characteristics of the building and its site and
environment.
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.
3. Each property shall 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 architectural elements from other
buildings, shall not be undertaken.
4. Most properties change over time; those changes that
have acquired historic signiﬁcance in their own right
shall be retained and preserved.
5. Distinctive features, ﬁnishes, and construction techniques or examples of craftsmanship that characterize a
property shall be preserved.
6. Deteriorated historic features shall be repaired rather
than replaced. Where the severity of deterioration
requires replacement of a distinctive feature, the new
feature shall match the old in design, color, texture, and

other visual qualities and, where possible, materials.
Replacement of missing features shall be substantiated
by documentary, physical, or pictorial evidence.
7. Chemical or physical treatments, such as sandblasting,
that cause damage to historic materials shall not be
used. The surface cleaning of structures, if appropriate,
shall be undertaken using the gentlest means possible.
8. Signiﬁcant archeological resources affected by a project shall be protected and preserved. If such resources
must be disturbed, mitigation measures shall be
undertaken.
9. New additions, exterior alterations, or related new
construction shall not destroy historic materials that
characterize the property. The new work shall be differentiated from the old and shall be compatible with
the massing, size, scale, and architectural features to
protect the historic integrity of the property and its
environment.
10. New additions and adjacent or related new construction shall be undertaken in such a manner that if
removed in the future, the essential form and integrity
of the historic property and its environment would be
unimpaired.

operate year-round, supporting continued economic
development in the region.
Design for Community Resiliency. The Tampa Theater
(Figure 11), designed by John Eberson, was completed in
1926 in downtown Tampa, Fla. Eberson was well-known
for developing movie palace designs in the atmospheric
theater style. Rather than a traditional black box theater, the theater was designed to replicate a European
courtyard or garden with a ceiling designed to mimic a
sky, complete with painted clouds and pin-point lights
to represent stars. The 1,250-seat theater was the ﬁrst
air-conditioned commercial building in Tampa. Like
many other movie palaces from the 1920s, the theater
faced demolition in 1973. City leaders reached a deal to
assume ownership of the facility, and the county agreed to
program the facility with ﬁlms, concerts and other public
events. The theater was added to the National Register in
1978 and became another example of a successful model
for revitalization. The theater has also beneﬁted from
a phased modernization approach, with work in 2009,
2011-12, and 2017. The most recent work fully restored the
main audience seating area and ﬁnishes, updated electrical systems and improved overall resiliency against major
weather events.

FIGURE 11 Tampa Theater. (Top) The first air-conditioned commercial building in Tampa advertised its indoor environment as a Cool Vacationland. Source:
Cinematreasures.org. (Bottom) The recently restored theater, including new seating,
upgraded lighting and reconfigured return air distribution. The original installation utilized hundreds of floor-embedded mushroom return air devices. These often became
difficult to maintain, if a drink was spilled on the floor. Source: DLR Group

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