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NORTH CAROLINA DIVISION OF ARCHIVES AND HISTORY <br />STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICE <br />NAT70NAL REGISTER FACT SHEET <br />NATIONAL REGISTER CRITERIA FOR EVALUATION <br />29 <br />The following criteria are designed to guide the states, federal agencies, and the Secretary of the Inte- <br />rior in evaluating potential entries for the National Register. <br />The quality of significance in American history, architecture, archaeology, and culture is present in <br />districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects that possess integrity of location, design, setting, <br />materials, workmanship, feeling, and association, and: <br />A. that are associated with events that have made significant contribution to the broad patterns of <br />our history; or . <br />B. that are associated with the lives of persons significant in our past; or <br />C. that embody the distinctive characteristics of a type, .period, or method of construction, or that <br />represent the work of a master, or that possess high, artistic values, or that represent a significant <br />and distinguishable entity whose components may, lack individual distinction; or <br />D. that have yielded, or may be likely to yield, information important in prehistory or history. <br />Criteria Considerations (Ex lions): Ordinarily cemeteries, birthplaces, or graves of historical fig- <br />ures, properties owned ~by religious institutions or used for religious purposes, structures that have <br />been moved from their original locations, reconstructed historic buildings, properties primarily com- <br />memorative in nature, and properties that have achieved sign~cance within the past SO years shall <br />not be considered eligible for the National Register. However, such properties will qua1~ if they are <br />integral parts of districts that do meet the criteria or if they fall within the following categories: <br />A. a religious property deriving primary significance from architectural or artistic distinction or his- <br />torical importance; or <br />B. a building or structure removed from its original location but which is significant primarily for <br />architectural value, or which is the surviving structure most importantly associated with a historic <br />person or evens; or ~ ' <br />C. a birthplace or grave of a historical figure of outstanding importance if there is no other <br />appropriate site or building directly associated with his or her productive life; or <br />D. a cemetery that derives its primary significance from graves of persons of transcendent impor- <br />• lance, ,from age, from distinctive design features, or from association with historic events; or <br />E. a reconstructed building when accurately executed in a suitable environment and presented in a <br />dignified manner as part of a restoration master plan, and when no other building or structure <br />with the same ~ association has survived; or <br />F. a property primarily corrinienwrative in intent if design, age, tradition, or symbolic value has <br />invested it with its own historical signi, ficance; or <br />G. a property achieving significance within the past 50 years if it is of exceptional importance. <br />(see other side) <br />