A Summation of

The National Register Evaluation

A place is inherently eligible to the NRHP if it is more than 50 years old1
and has a sufficient amount of the following qualities:

Significance in any of
the following CONTEXTS:2

  1. History
  2. Architecture
  3. Archaeology
  4. Engineering
  5. Culture
 It is a PLACE
classifiable as a:3

  1. Building
  2. Structure
  3. Object
  4. Site
  5. District
INTEGRITY of several
of the following:4

  1. Location
  2. Design
  3. Setting
  4. Materials
  5. Workmanship
  6. Feeling
  7. Association

It represents a facet of one of the
following LEVELS of significance:5

  1. Local
  2. State
  3. National
Several conditions can prevent a property from
being eligible even if it meets the above qualities:6

  1. Religious properties
  2. Moved properties
  3. Birthplaces and Graves
  4. Cemeteries
  5. Reconstructed properties
  6. Commemorative properties
  7. Significance less than 50 years old

These exclusions can be overridden if the property
meets special requirements: "Criteria Considerations"

It fits into one or more of the following types of significance
- the "Criteria for Evaluation" - in an important way.

  • A Associated with events that made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of HISTORY
  • B Associated with the lives of PERSONS significant in our past
  • C(1) Embody the distinctive characteristics of a TYPE of construction
  • C(2) Embody the distinctive characteristics of a PERIOD of construction7
  • C(3) Embody the distinctive characteristics of a METHOD of construction
  • C(4) Represent the WORK of a master
  • C(5) Possess high ARTISTIC values
  • C(6) Represent a significant and distinguishable entity whose COMPONENTS may lack individual distinction
  • D Yield INFORMATION important in history or prehistory

Verbatim National Register Criteria:

  1. Property is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history.

  2. Property is associated with the lives of persons significant in our past.

  3. Property embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction or represents the work of a master, or possesses high artistic values, or represents a significant and distinguishable entity whose components lack individual distinction.

  4. Property has yielded, or is likely to yield information important in prehistory or history.

Endnotes

  1. Bulletin 15:2c2. The verbatim criteria do not specifically state that properties must be more then 50 years old, but the exceptions make that clear.

  2. Bulletin 15:2c1t. This is listed only in the verbatim criteria.

  3. Bulletin 15:3c1b,4-6; Bulletin 16A:14-15.

  4. Bulletin 15:2c1t;44-45. This is in the verbatim criteria.

  5. Bulletin 15:7c2t, 9-10;Bulletin 16A:51b.

  6. Bulletin 15:25-43-10;Bulletin 16A:37

  7. Bulletin 15:18-19;Bulletin 16A:37, 51. This one subcriteria is given less treatment than the two before and after it; presumably, "historic adaptation of the original property" falls under this subcriteria (Bulletin 15:19).

Annotated Selected Sources

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