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5'-- NORTH CAROLINA DIVISION OF ARCHIVES AND HISTORY !: I STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICE ~ IVATIOI~L REGISTER FACT SHEET !l ItOW HISTORIC PROPERTIES ARE LISTED 1N iiI TIlE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORiC PLACES i Who Administers the National Register Program? The National Register of Historic Places is a Iisi'maintained by the National Park Service of build- ings, structures, sites, objects, and districts that are significant in American history, architecture, I archaeology, engineering, and culture, and that meet criteria for evaluation established by the National Hisloric Preservation Act of 1966. Nominations Io the l',Iafional Regisler are submitted from each of the states by the State Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO). In North Carolina, the SHPO Iis the Director of the Division of Archives and History. The section within the Division that adminis- lets the National Register and relaled programs is the Archaeology and Hislorie Preservalion Section, also called the Itlstoric Preservation Office (HPO). The personnel of the Historic Prese~,ation Office serve as staff for the SHPO in National Register activities and duties. I In every stale, a review board examines polentlal nominations and makes recommendations lo the SHPO regarding the eligibility of properties and the adequacy of nominations. In North Carolina, the I review board is called the Stale Professional Review Committee (SPRC). The SPRC meets qnarlerly (January, April, Jul),, October) Io consider the eligibility of properties for nomination Io the National Register. Nominations prepared under the supel'x,ision of the HPO staff and approved by the I' SPRC are forxvarded to the }(eeper of the National Register in the National Park Service in Washing- Ion, D.C. Final authorily Ia Iisi properties in Ihe National Regisler ~'esides wilh the National Park Ser- ,,'ice. I ltow ar~ Eligible Propec~ies Identified? Properties and districts that may be eligible for the National Register are usually brought Io the allen- I lion of lite NPO staff and thc SPRC either (l) through a county or community survey of hislorlc properties co-sponsored by lite Historic Preservation Office and a ]ocal government or organization; (2) by inlerestext individuals who provide preliminary information about properties IO the HPO staff; I or (3) through historic properly surveys conduCled as part of the environment~J review process. Persons who seek National Register listing for properties that have not been recorded in survey projecls co-sponsored by the Historic Preservation Office may submit a 'Study List ARolication' Io I the HPO. If adequale information and color slides of the are included with the application, properly the SPRC will consider the property at its next quarterly meeting, if in the opinion of the SPRC the property appears to be potentially eligible for the National Register, it is placed on the $1udy List. I This action by the SPRC authorizes the HPO staff Io work with the owner Io coordinate a formal nomination of the properly IO the National Regisler. The SPRC can best evaluate the eligibility of an individual properly within the conlext of a I community-wide or regional invcnlory of hisloric or prehlsloric properlies. This provides a bas~s for comparing thc relative significance of similar types of historic or prehistoric properties in a eom- munily or region. In counties or comtnltnilies ~q;ere no such in,oreaD, h~ been m'~embled, the SPRC I ~01 sometimes find il lO defer a decision about the an inditYdual utuil of property a comprehensive sun'e), of historic properties has taken place. IAkew~, the SPRC may consider some properties as contributing components within larger distt~cts but not as indb~duolly eligible. I Information abot, I grants lo local governmenls for local hisloric properly surveys and nominations is available from Ihe Hisloric Preservation Office. ' (see other side)