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National
Register of Historic Places
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The
National Register of Historic Places serves as the Federal government's
official list of those properties deemed worthy of preservation. Listing in
the National Register is primarily a tool to encourage preservation,
recognition, and rehabilitation of our national landmarks. It is a strong
reminder that the preservation and re-use of historic properties can also be
economically feasible.
The
following criteria have been established to guide the States, Federal
agencies, and the Secretary of the Interior in evaluating potential entries to
the National Register.
The
quality of significance in American history, architecture, archaeology,
and culture is present in districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects
that possess integrity of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship,
feeling, and association, and:
1 ) that are
associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the
broad patterns of our history; or
2) that are
associated with the lives of persons significant in our past; or
3) that
embody the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of
construction, or that represent the work of a master, or that possess high
artistic values, or that represent a significant and distinguishable
entity whose components may lack individual distinction; or
4) that have
yielded, or may be likely to yield, information important in prehistory or
history.
Criteria
Considerations
Ordinarily cemeteries,
birthplaces, or graves of historical figures, properties owned by religious
institutions or used for religious purposes, structures that have been
moved from their original locations, reconstructed historic buildings,
properties primarily commemorative in nature, and properties that have
achieved significance within the past 50 years shall not be considered
eligible for the National Register. However, such properties can qualify if
they are integral parts of districts that do meet the criteria or if they fall
within the following categories:
1) a
religious property deriving primary significance from architectural or
artistic distinction or historical importance; or
2) a
building , or structure removed from its original location but which is
significant primarily for architectural value, or which is the surviving
structure most importantly associated with a historic person or event; or
3 ) a
birthplace or grave of a historical figure of outstanding importance if
there is no appropriate site or building directly associated with his
productive life; or
4) cemetery
which derives its primary significance from graves of persons of
transcendent importance, from age, from distinctive design features, or
from association with historic events; or
5) a
reconstructed building when accurately executed in a suitable environment
and presented in a dignified manner as part of a restoration master plan,
and when no other building or structure with the same association has
survived; or
6) a
property primarily commemorative in intent if design, age, tradition, or
symbolic value has invested it with its own historical significance; or
7) a
property achieving significance within the past 50 years if it is of
exceptional importance.
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