Owners and architects working on historic buildings
Changing a building in a historic district? Get a free checklist of what the board reviews, mapped to the Secretary of the Interior's Standards.
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What you get
The check is free. The paperwork after it is drafted at the Historic Tax Credit Application door.
Modeled on: Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation (36 CFR 67.7)
From public data
make up the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation, the criteria the National Park Service uses to certify a rehabilitation for the federal tax credit
Source: 36 CFR 67.7, eCFR
Draft NPS Form 10-168 Parts 1 and 2 for the 20% federal historic tax credit: significance, then the work feature by feature. Free to read.
Questions
It's the permit a local preservation board issues before work on a designated landmark or district building. In New York City, the Landmarks Law requires owners to get a Landmarks Preservation Commission permit, with photos, drawings and a description of the work, before changing a designated property.
Check your district's design guidelines first. The federal benchmark is the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation: ten principles such as keeping historic character, repairing rather than replacing deteriorated features, and building additions that could later be removed without harming the historic form.
No. The 20% federal credit is for qualified rehabilitation spending on a certified historic structure that is depreciable, such as a rental or business property, and the rehabilitation must be certified. The credit is taken in equal shares over five years.
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