What makes a historic property “significant”?
The National Register of Historic Places has outlined four main criteria against which historic properties are assessed for significance. These criteria are the basis for which historic properties are evaluated in the Section 106 process. They are: • Criterion A: Properties that are associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history. • Criterion B: Properties that are associated with the lives of persons significant in our past. • Criterion C: Properties that embody the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction, or properties that represent the work of a master, or properties that possess high artistic values, or properties that represent a significant and distinguishable entity whose components may lack individual distinction. • Criterion D: Properties that have yielded, or may be likely to yield information important in prehistory or history.
