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a historic home can damage its historic integrity and render it non-contributing. In some cases, damage to the historic integrity of a structure is reversible, while other times the historic nature of a building has been so "severely compromised" as to be irreversible. For example, in the
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in case such new changes do exist, if those new changes might be of interest, then here is a new link, to allow checking the new version of that web page. That new location (or "URL") was found on March 26, 2023, using a "search" feature of the "nps dot gov" web site. It
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