STATE HISTORIC
PRESERVATION OFFICE
100 NORTH STEWART
STREET
CARSON CITY, NV 89701
STATE HISTORIC MARKER
REGISTER
The following criteria will be used to evaluate properties
for registration and marking.
Districts, sites, buildings and objects of importance in Nevada history,
architecture, archaeology and culture will be eligible if they meet one or more
of the following:
1. They possess integrity of location,
design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling and association.
2. They are associated with events that
have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of Nevada History.
3. They
area associated with the lives of persons significant in Nevada’s past.
4. They embody the distinctive
characteristics of a type, period or method of
construction, or represent the
work of a master, or possess high artistic values or represent a significant
and distinguishable entity whose components may lack individual distinction.
5. They have yielded, or may be likely to
yield, information important in
prehistory
or history.
CRITERIA CONSIDERATIONS
Ordinarily cemeteries, birthplaces or graves of historical
figures, properties owned by religious institutions or used for religious
purposes, structures which have been moved from their original locations,
reconstructed historic buildings, properties primarily commemorative in nature,
and properties which have achieved significance within fifty (50) years shall
not normally be considered eligible for the Register. However, such properties will qualify if they fall within one or
more of the following categories:
1. A religious property deriving primary
significance from architectural
or
artistic distinction or historical importance.
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.
3. A birthplace or grave of a historical
figure of outstanding importance if
there
is no appropriate site or building directly associated with his/her
productive
life.
4. A cemetery that derives its primary
significance from graves of persons
of
transcendent importance, from age, from distinctive design features
or
from association with historic events.
5. A reconstructed building when accurately
executed in a suitable
environment
and presented in a dignified manner as part of a restoration
master
plan and when no other building or structure with the same
association
has survived.
6. A property primarily commemorative in
intent if design, age, tradition or
symbolic
value has invested it with its own historical significance.
7. A property achieving significance within
the last fifty years if it is of exceptional importance.
APPLICATION PROCEDURE
Any individual, member of the public or private groups may
submit an application for registering and/or marking properties under the State
Historic Marker Register System.
Application for registration and marking properties is made
on the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) “Application for Historic
Markers” form, available upon request from the State Historic Preservation
Office, 100 N. Stewart Street, Carson City, NV
89701, phone: (775) 684-3448.
COMPLETE THE APPLICATION FORMS IN THE FOLLOWING MANNER:
NAME OF
PROPERTY: Give the common name or
the name given on maps. Include other
names by which the property was known, if any.
LOCATION: Give township-range information and include
a portion of a highway map with the site located on it or a map with directions
for finding the site.
COUNTY: Name of county in which the historic site
is located.
NAME OF
PROPERTY OWNER: Identify the
property owner, i.e., John Doe, Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Forest Service,
etc.
PRESENT
USE: None, or occupied dwelling,
local park, etc.
HISTORY
AND DESCRIPTION: Provide a full
history of the site. Dates, name of
individuals involved, incidents occurring on the site, amounts of ore from
mining, town population figures, ages of prehistoric sites, names of Native
American tribes known to occupy the area, etc.
Use additional pages, if needed.
Be sure to specify the area covered by the site and its significance in
Nevada history.
PHOTOGRAPHS:
Include at least two (2) different, good quality photographs of the
historic site in its present condition.
AUTHORIZATION
FROM PROPERTY OWNER TO THE STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICE FOR NUMBER AND
REGISTRATION OF AN HISTORIC SITE:
The property owner’s consent, whether the site is on public or private
land, is required.
SUGGESTED
TEXT FOR MARKER: Submit suggested
text for the marker. Limit the number
of words to approximately 200 but understand that the SHPO will limit words for
smaller markers and will edit or rewrite the text as appropriate
REFERENCES
TO BOOKS, RECORDS AND OTHER AUTHORITIES SUSTAINING FACTS: List history books, newspaper accounts,
Library of Congress microfilm records, letters, oral history of reliable
witnesses, etc., which substantiate the historical report submitted.
Return the completed form to the State Historic Preservation
Office, Historic Marker Program, 100 North Stewart Street, Carson City, NV 89701.
Applications submitted to the SHPO will be reviewed and
evaluated by the SHPO, the Nevada Historical Society and others for compliance
with established criteria.
Upon application approval, the historic site will be
numbered and placed in the State Historic Marker Register.
MARKERS
The SHPO will provide a high quality marker for installation
on or near the site, depending upon funding availability. The name of a sponsoring individual will be
included on the marker. Sponsoring
parties may also fund the marker construction and placement entirely with
agreement from the SHPO.
If the SHPO provides the historic marker, the sponsoring
parties will be responsible for installation of the base and marker unless
other arrangements have been made with the SHPO.
All news releases and press contacts by sponsoring parties
must mention SHPO involvement.
Updated 2/2000
