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City of Paris Historic Resources Survey <br /> Update -- 2003 Phase 1 <br /> <br /> Proposal for Services <br /> <br /> Statement of Purpose: <br />The City of Paris wishes to conduct a new phase of the city's Historic Resources Survey to <br />expand and update information collected in the 1985 survey. Such a survey provides <br />communities with a specific universe of historic resources and a focus for the implementation of <br />historic preservation and other planning goals and objectives for those communities. The survey <br />will identify those structures lost since the 1985 survey, and those that have achieved historical <br />significance since the survey was conducted. <br /> <br />The Paris Historic Preservation Commission (PHPC) has indicated that it wishes to divide the <br />project into two distinct phases, the first focusing on commercial properties, and the second on <br />residential properties. The overall goal of the survey is to inventory historic properties in or near <br />the 3 existing National Register Districts: Paris Commercial Historic District, Pine Bluff- <br />Fitzhugh Historic District, and Church Street Historic DisWict. Existing records describing those <br />dis~a-icts are to be updated. In addition, the survey is to identify properties that have achieved <br />historic status since the 1985 survey was completed, including those properties, or groups of <br />properties, outside the districts. <br /> <br />The ARCHITEXAS team will undertake the 2003 City of Paris Historic Resource Survey <br />following guidelines established by the Secretary of the Interior, U.S. Department of the Interior <br />and the Texas Historical Commission for preservation planning and survey. An inventory of <br />previously surveyed areas will be conducted in order to document changes to the historical <br />structure of those areas. Additional survey work will be conducted to identify historic properties <br />not previously cataloged or designated as worthy of historical designation. Recommendations <br />for possible new historic districts, additions to existing districts (boundary reconfiguration), or <br />individual landmark designations will be made based upon the findings of the inventory portion <br />of the project. The project will also record newly identified properties photographically as well <br />as verbally, place the resources in context with the history and development of Paris, rate the <br />relative significance of the resources by preservation priority, and collect and collate the data in <br />a final report. <br /> <br /> <br />