APPENDIX V 



CRITERIA FOR EVALUATION 



The following criteria are designed to guide the 

 States, Federal agencies, and the Secretary of the 

 Interior in evaluating potential entries (other than 

 areas of the National Park System and National 

 Historic Landmarks) for the National Register. 



The quality of significance in American history, 

 architecture, archeology, 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 

 posses 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. 



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 build- 

 ings, 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 will 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 signi- 

 ficance from architectural or artistic dis- 

 tinction 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 other 

 appropriate site or building directly asso- 

 ciated with his productive life; or 



4. A cemetery which derives its primary 

 significance from graves of persons of 

 transcendent importance, from age, from 

 distinctive design features, or from associ- 

 ation with historic events; or 



5. A reconstructed building when accurately 

 executed in a suitable environmen and 

 presented in a dignified manner as part of 

 a restoration master plan, and when no other 

 building or structure with the same associ- 

 ation 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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