Preservation Easements: Configuring an Historic Preservation Strategy

dc.contributor.advisorWest, Carrollen_US
dc.contributor.authorSprouse, David Paulen_US
dc.contributor.committeememberWoods, Louisen_US
dc.contributor.departmentHistoryen_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-06-02T18:55:05Z
dc.date.available2014-06-02T18:55:05Z
dc.date.issued2013-10-23en_US
dc.description.abstractThe mating of federal tax incentives to historic preservation easements in the Tax Reform Act of 1976 reflected a shifting preservation ethos. As practitioners began to reevaluate long-held assumptions that privileged architecture over community, their focus turned from the preservation of exceptional, individual buildings toward the conservation of entire historic districts as an integrated whole. While preservation easements provide an important legal mechanism for safeguarding America's historic, built environment for future generations, their usage has also been linked with questionable financial schemes and charges of facadism. This thesis explores the interplay between preservation practice and process, between the institutions that govern the profession and the practitioners that seek to codify a particular historicity. It is ironic, then, that by aligning preservation easement policy with such authoritative governmental institutions as the Department of the Interior and the Internal Revenue Service that the easement program now faces an uncertain political future.en_US
dc.description.degreeM.A.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://jewlscholar.mtsu.edu/handle/mtsu/3580
dc.publisherMiddle Tennessee State Universityen_US
dc.subjectCovenanten_US
dc.subjectEasementen_US
dc.subjectFacadeen_US
dc.subjectHistoricen_US
dc.subjectPreservationen_US
dc.subjectTaxen_US
dc.subject.umiCultural resources managementen_US
dc.subject.umiUrban planningen_US
dc.subject.umiPublic policyen_US
dc.thesis.degreegrantorMiddle Tennessee State Universityen_US
dc.thesis.degreelevelMastersen_US
dc.titlePreservation Easements: Configuring an Historic Preservation Strategyen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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