Illustrated Architecture Dictionary

Restoration

Recovery of the form and details of a building, structure or improvement and its site during a particular time - "the period of significance"

Reconstruction - Reproduction of the exact form and detail of a vanished building, structure, improvement or part thereof, as it appeared at a specific time.

Rehabilitation - Repair or alteration that enables buildings, structures or improvements to be efficiently utilized while preserving those features of buildings, structures or improvements that are significant to their historic, architectural and cultural values.

Adaptive reuse - Conversion of a building originally designed for a certain purpose to a different purpose

See also: Buffalo's Historic ("Old") Buildings: The Bottom Line

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Examples from Buffalo:

• Restoration - Illustrations above:
  • Left - Graycliff, including enclosure of the porch to create an indoor chapel
  • Right - Graycliff, after Piarist priests' chapel has been removed and restored to Wright's 1927 design
    
    
• Restoration - Graycliff Being restored to its 1927 appearance

• Restoration - Martin House Complex Being restored to its 1907 appearance
  
  
• Restoration - Ansley Wilcox Mansion / Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site Being restored to its 1901 appearance
  
  
• Reconstruction - Darwin D. Martin House Complex - Pergola / Conservatory / Carriage House
  
  
• Reconstruction - Ansley Wilcox Mansion / Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site - Carriage House Demolished carriage house is being reconstructed in 2008
  
  
• Rehabilitation - Shea's Buffalo Professional and volunteer rehabilitation over a decade
  
  
• Adaptive reuse - Webb Building Factory adaptively reused for nursery and apartments
  
  
• Adaptive reuse - Sternberg House / The Mansion on Delaware Avenue Residence adaptively reused for hotel
  
  
• Adaptive reuse - Old Post Office / Erie Community College Post office adaptively reused for community college
  
  
• Adaptive reuse - Asbury Delaware Avenue Methodist Church / Babeville Church adaptively reused for multipurpose facility, including concert space
  
  
• Adaptive reuse - Elk Market Truck Terminal / Lofts @ Elk Terminal Truck Terminal adaptively reused for loft apartments
  
  
• Adaptive reuse - Buffalo's Historic ("Old") Buildings: The Bottom Line