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Overview

Published July 2023 on Publications of the National Register of Historic Places (NPS)

For preparers of New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places nominations and fellow SHPO staff.

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Excerpt from Introduction

[/vc_column_text][vc_message color=”warning” message_box_color=”warning” icon_fontawesome=”” css=””]This publication compliments the guidance provided in National Register Bulletins by providing examples on specific topics.[/vc_message][vc_row_inner el_class=”hpo-callout-text”][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text css=”” el_class=”hpo-intro-paragraph”]National Register listings include common resources that may be abundant and, therefore, difficult to evaluate for significance. Common resources may be a group of property types characterized by common physical attributes, such as style, scale, proportions, architectural details, or methods of construction. For example, apartment buildings, various house styles of the mid-twentieth century, and schools are among the common resources that present evaluation challenges. Common resources may be united by shared historical or cultural characteristics, such as relationships to important persons, historic events, or cultural activities. They may be rural or urban, and found locally or statewide. Common resources are often addressed through the development of Multiple Property Documentation, a framework for nominating significant properties with shared themes, trends, or patterns of history.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Even where once-common resources have become relatively rare—for example, one-room schools (even derelict ones) are no longer a common sight in many rural areas—evaluation of significance cannot solely rely on that rarity to support significance. A justification supporting listing may be easier in such cases, but it is not a given. How, then, is a common resource evaluated for individual listing? This issue of the Best Practices Review provides guidance for evaluating common resources united by architectural characteristics.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″ css=”.vc_custom_1758815062001{margin-bottom: 32px !important;}”][info-box-shortcode icon=”fa fa-solid fa-rectangle-list” title=”Table of Contents”]

• Introduction
• Look to the MPDF Format
• Develop a Concise Context
• Focus on Common Architectural Styles or Vernacular Building Plans
• Evaluate Integrity
• Examples
  • Celine and Albert Goddard House (South Dakota; NRIS # 10002102)
  • Singhi Double House (Maine; NRIS # 100003589)
  • Old Enon Road Stone Arch Culvert (Ohio; NRIS # 09000209)
  • Attwood House (Arkansas; NRIS # 100008979)

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