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HEMA No. 2023-02 – The Gilmaker Block (302 West Fourth Street) May 3, 2023 Page 6 3 3 8 2 of the proposed project. Thus, the historic character of the property would be retained and preserved. 3. Each property will be recognized as a physical record of its time, place, and use. Changes that create a false sense of historical development, such as adding conjectural features or elements from other historic properties, will not be undertaken. The project complies with Standard No. 3. The proposed changes will not create a false sense of historical development. The proposed addition will read as contemporary in comparison to the existing brick vernacular commercial style building through its use of slightly differentiated materials, including distinct brick, metal trellis, and aluminum windows. The addition will be compatible yet differentiated from the historic building through its flat roof with parapet, fenestration pattern, and rectangular massing. New roll-up garage doors and single pedestrian door on the east façade, and new doors on the south facade will be compatible with the historic building. Therefore, the architectural treatment will read as contemporary, not conjectural. 4. Changes to a property that have acquired historic significance in their own right will be retained and preserved. Standard 4 does not apply as the project will not remove any significant features that were added over time. The removal of two non-original fixed picture windows on the east façade and a non-original aluminum storefront at the north façade have not acquired historic significance in their own right as they were added after the building’s period of significance. 5. Distinctive features, finishes, and construction techniques or examples of craftsmanship that characterize a property shall be preserved. The project complies with Standard No. 5. Distinctive materials, features, finishes, and construction techniques or examples of craftsmanship that characterize the property will be preserved. The project does not propose to remove character- defining features or materials/finishes along the primary facades. Although the east and south facades will undergo some window replacement and a new door opening, and the south façade will also have door replacements and some window removal, the materials and features are either not historic and/or distinct to the building, or are located on the secondary (rear) façade that has changed over time. 6. Deteriorated historic features will be repaired rather than replaced. Where the severity of deterioration requires replacement of a distinctive feature, the new feature will match the old in design, color, texture, and, where possible, materials.