National Register Criteria for Evaluation The following criteria
are designed to guide states, federal agencies, and the
Secretary of the Interior in evaluating entries 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, material, workmanship, feeling,
and association, and: - that are associated with events that
have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of
our history; or - that are associated with the lives of persons
significant in our past; or - that embody the distinctive
characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction, or
that represent a significant and distinguishable entity whose
components may lack individual distinction; or - that have
yielded or may be likely to yield information important to
prehistory or history. Ordinarily, cemeteries, birthplaces, or
graves of historical figures, proper