Mission:

To promote the practice of restoration and provide educational opportunities for the public and trade professionals to learn about restoration techniques and information.

What is restoration?

Preservation, Rehabilitation and Restoration each has a slightly different meaning in the world of preservation. The National Park Service Technical Preservation Services provides the following definitions:

Preservation  

focuses on the maintenance and repair of existing historic materials and retention of a property's form as it has evolved over time.

Rehabilitation  

acknowledges the need to alter or add to a historic property to meet continuing or changing uses while retaining the property's historic character.

Restoration  

depicts a property at a particular period of time in its history, while removing evidence of other periods.

Reconstruction  

re-creates vanished or non-surviving portions of a property for interpretive purposes.

For more information on these definitions, please see National Park Service guidelines.

Committee List:

Nicole Malone

The Architectural Office

Kay Friesen and Hanne Kruse

Metropolitan Community College

Cindy Tooker

Leo A Daley, 2020 Omaha

Martin Janousek

Leo A Daly, Gifford Park Neighborhood Association

Chris Foster

Kiewit, Gifford Park Neighborhood Association

Vince Furlong

Omaha Main Streets

Norita Matt

Omaha City Planning

Deb Peterson

B. G. Peterson Co.

Jay Rybin

Rybin Plumbing & Heating Co

Rosemary Opbrook

March of Dimes

Alesha Hauser

National Parks Service, Landmarks Inc.

Partners

Landmarks, Inc.

Metro Community College Foundation

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