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r1 <br />LA <br />Criteria for Evaluation <br />The following criteria are designed to guide states, Federal agencies, and the <br />Secretary of the Interior in evaluating entries for the National Register. <br />The quality of significance in American history, architecture, archaeology, and <br />culture is present in districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects that <br />possess integrity of location, design, setting, material, workmanship, feeling, and <br />association, and: <br />A. that are associated with events that have made a significant contribution <br />to the broad patterns of 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 <br />construction, or that represent a significant and distinguishable entity <br />whose comments may lack individual distinction: or <br />D. that they yielded or may be likely to yield information important in <br />prehistory or history. <br />46 Ordinarily, birthplaces, or graves of historical figures, properties owned by <br />religious institutions or used for religious purposes, structures that have been <br />moved from their original locations, reconstructed historic buildings, properties <br />primarily commemorative in nature, and properties that have achieved <br />significance within the last 50 years shall not be considered for the National <br />Register. Such properties will qualify if they are integral parts of districts that <br />meet the criteria, or if they fall within the following categories: <br />A. a religious property deriving primary significance from architectural or <br />artistic distinction or historical importance; or <br />B. a building or structure removed from its original location but which is the <br />surviving structure most importantly associated with a historic person or <br />event; or <br />C. a birthplace or grave of a historic figure of outstanding importance, if <br />there is no other appropriate site or building directly associated with his <br />productive life; or <br />D. a cemetery that derives its primary significance from graves of persons <br />of transcended importance, from age, from distinctive design features, or <br />• from association with historic events; or <br />E. a reconstructed building when accurately executed in a suitable <br />