Nomination process National Register of Historic Places

1 nomination process

1.1 criteria
1.2 exclusions
1.3 properties listed
1.4 multiple property submission

nomination process

any individual can prepare national register nomination, although historians , historic preservation consultants employed work. nomination consists of standard nomination form , contains basic information property s physical appearance , type of significance embodied in building, structure, object, site, or district. state historic preservation office receives national register nominations , provides feedback nominating individual or group. after preliminary review, shpo sends each nomination state s historic review commission, recommends whether state historic preservation officer should send nomination keeper of national register. non-federally owned property, state historic preservation officer may officially nominate property inclusion in national register. after nomination recommended listing in national register shpo, nomination sent national park service, approves or denies nomination. if approved, property entered officially keeper of national register national register of historic places. property owners notified of nomination during review shpo , state s historic review commission. if owner objects nomination of private property, or in case of historic district, majority of owners, property cannot listed in national register of historic places.

criteria

the robie house, designed frank lloyd wright, example of property listed means of criterion c.

for property eligible national register, must meet @ least 1 of 4 national register main criteria. information architectural styles, association various aspects of social history , commerce, , ownership integral parts of nomination. each nomination contains narrative section provides detailed physical description of property , justifies why significant historically regard either local, state, or national history. 4 national register of historic places criteria following.

criterion a, event, property must make contribution major pattern of american history.
criterion b, person, associated significant people of american past.
criterion c, design/construction, concerns distinctive characteristics of building architecture , construction, including having great artistic value or being work of master.
criterion d, information potential, satisfied if property has yielded or may yield information important prehistory or history.

the criteria applied differently different types of properties; instance, maritime properties have application guidelines different of buildings.

exclusions

there specific instances properties not merit listing in national register. general rule, cemeteries, birthplaces, graves of historical figures, properties owned religious institutions or used religious purposes, moved structures, reconstructed historic buildings, commemorative properties, , properties have achieved significance during last fifty years not qualified listing on register. there are, however, exceptions preceding; mitigating circumstances allow properties classified in 1 of groups included.

properties listed

a listing on national register of historic places governmental acknowledgment of historic district, site, building, or property. however, register honorary status federal financial incentives. national register of historic places automatically includes national historic landmarks historic areas administered national park service. landmarks such these include: national historic sites (nhs), national historical parks, national military parks/battlefields, national memorials, , national monuments. occasionally, historic sites outside country s borders, associated united states, such american legation in tangiers, listed.

listing in national register not restrict private property owners use of property. states , municipalities, however, may have laws become effective when property listed in national register. if federal money or federal permitting process involved, section 106 of national historic preservation act of 1966 invoked. section 106 requires federal agency involved assess effect of actions on historic resources. statutorily, advisory council on historic preservation (achp) has significant role section 106 of national historic preservation act. section requires director of federal agency direct or indirect jurisdiction of project may affect property listed or determined eligible listing in national register of historic places, must first report advisory council. director of said agency required take account effect of undertaking on national register property, afford achp reasonable opportunity comment.

while section 106 not mandate explicitly federal agency director accept advice of achp, advice has practical influence, given statutory obligations of nhpa require federal agencies take account effect of undertaking.

in cases achp determines federal action have adverse effect on historic properties, mitigation sought. typically, memorandum of agreement (moa) created involved parties agree particular plan. many states have laws similar section 106. in contrast conditions relating federally designated historic district, municipal ordinances governing local historic districts restrict kinds of changes properties. thus, may protect property more national register listing does.

the department of transportation act, passed on october 15, 1966, same day national historic preservation act, included provisions addressed historic preservation. dot act more general section 106 nhpa in refers properties other listed in register.

the more general language has allowed more properties , parklands enjoy status protected areas legislation, policy developed in history. united states supreme court ruled in 1971 case citizens preserve overton park v. volpe parklands have same protected status historic sites.

multiple property submission

the lodge , cabins @ white pines forest state park, in illinois, part of multiple property submission.

a multiple property submission (mps) thematic group listing of national register of historic places consists of related properties share common theme , can submitted group. multiple property submissions must satisfy basic criteria group of properties included in national register.

the process begins multiple property documentation form, acts cover document rather nomination national register of historic places. purpose of documentation form establish basis of eligibility related properties. information of multiple property documentation form can used nominate , register related historic properties simultaneously, or establish criteria properties may nominated in future. thus, additions mps can occur on time.

the nomination of individual properties in mps accomplished in same manner other nominations. name of thematic group denotes historical theme of properties. considered multiple property listing. once individual property or group of properties nominated , listed in national register, multiple property documentation form, combined individual national register of historic places nomination forms, constitute multiple property submission. examples of mps include lee county multiple property submission, warehouses in omaha, boundary markers of original district of columbia, , illinois carnegie libraries. before term multiple property submission introduced in 1984, such listings known thematic resources , such operating passenger railroad stations thematic resource, or multiple resource areas.