§ 112-2. Definitions.

As used in this article, the following words and terms, unless the context required otherwise, shall have the following meanings:

BUILDING

Any combination of materials forming a shelter for persons, animals or property.

COMMISSION

The Barnstable Historical Commission.

DEMOLITION

Any act of destroying, eliminating, pulling down, razing or removing a building or any portion thereof, or starting the work of any such act with the intention of completing the same.

PERSON

Any natural person, firm, partnership, association or corporation.

SIGNIFICANT BUILDING

Any building or portion thereof, which is not within a regional historic district or a local historic district subject to regulation under provisions MGL c. 40C but which has been listed or is the subject of a pending application for listing on the National Register of Historic Places, or has been listed on the Massachusetts Register of Historic Places, or is over 75 years of age and which is determined by the Commission to be a significant building as provided by § 112-3D of this article, either because:

A. 

It is importantly associated with one or more historic persons or events, or with the broad architectural, cultural, political, economic or social history of the Town or the Commonwealth; or

B. 

It is historically or architecturally important (in terms of period, style, method of building construction, or association with a famous architect or builder) either by itself or in the context of a group of buildings.

PREFERABLY-PRESERVED SIGNIFICANT BUILDING

Any significant building as to which the Commission determines, as provided in § 112-3G of this article, that it is in the public interest to be preserved or rehabilitated rather than to be demolished.