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Program Description | Criteria | Nomination | Results
NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES
CRITERIA FOR LISTING
FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF STATE - Kurt S. Browning - SECRETARY OF STATE
The National Register of Historic Places is an official listing of sites and properties throughout the United States that reflect the prehistoric occupation and historical development of our nation, states, and local communities. It is maintained by the Keeper of the National Register, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior.
The following criteria are used by the State Historic Preservation Officer and the Keeper of the National Register in evaluating properties for eligibility for listing in theNational Register.
Criteria for Evaluation:
a) are associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history; and/or
b) are associated with the lives of persons significant in our past; and/or
c) embody the distinctive characteristics of 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; and/or
d) have yielded, or may be likely to yield, information important in prehistory or history.
Criteria Consideration:
2) 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 will qualify if they are integral parts of districts that do meet the criteria or if they fall within the following categories:
a) a religious property deriving its primary significance from architectural or artistic distinction or historical importance; or
b) 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
c) a birthplace or grave of an historical figure of outstanding importance if there is no appropriate site or building directly associated with his productive life; or
d) a cemetery which derives its primary significance from graves of persons of transcendent importance, from age, distinctive design features, or association with historic events; or
e) a reconstructed building, when it is accurately executed in a suitable environment and presented in a dignified manner as part of a restoration master plan, and no other building or structure with the same association has survived; or a property primarily commemorative in intent, if design, age, tradition, or symbolic value has invested it with its own exceptional significance; or
g) a property achieving significance within the past 50 years, if it is of exceptional importance.
For further information on theNational Register criteria for listing, please contact us at the address or phone number below:
Historic Preservation
R.A. Gray Building
500 South Bronough Street
Tallahassee, Florida 32399-0250
Telephone (850) 245-6333 or 1-800-847-7278
FAX (850) 245-6437