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:

Kay Friesen

Metropolitan Community College

Vince Furlong

Omaha Main Streets

Kristine Gerber

Eventive Marketing

Martin Janousek

Leo A Daly, Gifford Park Neighborhood Association

Michael Joyce

HDR Architecture

Hanne Kruse

Metropolitan Community College

Rebecca Liebentritt

HDR Architecture

Nicole Malone

The Architectural Office

Norita Matt

Omaha City Planning

Michelle Mutchler-Burns

Blue Cross Blue Shield

Paul Nelsonr

BVH Architects, Landmarks Inc.

Rosemary Opbrook

March of Dimes

Deb Peterson

B. G. Peterson Co.

Julie Reilly

KANEKO

Don Seton

Omaha City Planning

Kara Soukup

Carlson West Povondra Architects

Cindy Tooker

Leo A Daley, 2020 Omaha

Partners

Metro Community College Foundation