NPS Form 10-900-b OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Multiple Property Documentation Form This form is used for documenting property groups relating to one or several historic contexts. See instructions in National Register Bulletin How to Complete the Multiple Property Documentation Form (formerly 16B). Complete each item by entering the requested information. ___X___ New Submission ________ Amended Submission A. Name of Multiple Property Listing The Victory Highway in Nevada B. Associated Historic Contexts (Name each associated historic context, identifying theme, geographical area, and chronological period for each.) The Victory Highway, Statewide, 1921-1926 Victory Highway/US 40 and National Numbered Highway System, Statewide, 1927-1939 C. Form Prepared by: Name/Title Alex Borger, Liz Boyer, Chad Moffett and Timothy Smith Cultural Resources Specialists Organization Mead & Hunt, Inc. Street & Number 180 Promenade Circle, Suite 240 City or Town Sacramento State CA Zip Code 95834 Email [email protected] Telephone 916-971-3961 Date April 2020 D. Certification As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended, I hereby certify that this documentation form meets the National Register documentation standards and sets forth requirements for the listing of related properties consistent with the National Register criteria. This submission meets the procedural and professional requirements set forth in 36 CFR 60 and the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards and Guidelines for Archeology and Historic Preservation. _______________________________ _Nevada SHPO____________ ________________ Signature of Certifying Official Title Date _Nevada State Historic Preservation Office____________ State or Federal Agency or Tribal Government I hereby certify that this multiple property documentation form has been approved by the National Register as a basis for evaluating related properties for listing in the National Register. ________________________________ __________________________________ Signature of the Keeper Date of Action NPS Form 10-900-b OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service The Victory Highway Nevada Name of Multiple Property Listing State Table of Contents for Written Narrative Create a Table of Contents and list the page numbers for each of these sections in the space below. Provide narrative explanations for each of these sections on continuation sheets. In the header of each section, cite the letter, page number, and name of the multiple property listing. Refer to How to Complete the Multiple Property Documentation Form for additional guidance. Page Numbers E. Statement of Historic Contexts (If more than one historic context is documented, present them in sequential order.) E-3 F. Associated Property Types (Provide description, significance, and registration requirements.) F-71 G. Geographical Data G-98 H. Summary of Identification and Evaluation Methods (Discuss the methods used in developing the multiple property listing.) H-99 I. Major Bibliographical References (List major written works and primary location of additional documentation: State Historic I-100 Preservation Office, other State agency, Federal agency, local government, university, or other, specifying repository.) Paperwork Reduction Act Statement: This information is being collected for applications to the National Register of Historic Places to nominate properties for listing or determine eligibility for listing, to list properties, and to amend existing listings. Response to this request is required to obtain a benefit in accordance with the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended (16 U.S.C.460 et seq.). Estimated Burden Statement: Public reporting burden for this form is estimated to average 250 hours per response including time for reviewing instructions, gathering and maintaining data, and completing and reviewing the form. Direct comments regarding this burden estimate or any aspect of this form to the Chief, Administrative Services Division, National Park Service, PO Box 37127, Washington, DC 20013-7127; and the Office of Management and Budget, Paperwork Reductions Project (1024-0018), Washington, DC 20503. NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior The Victory HighwayPut Here in Nevada National Park Service Name of Property Elko, Pershing, Lander, Eureka, Humboldt, Churchill, Washoe Counties, NV National Register of Historic Places County and State Continuation Sheet The Victory Highway in Nevada Name of multiple listing (if applicable) Section number E Page 3 Statement of Historic Contexts 1. Introduction This section provides a state-level historic context that identifies the historic themes, National Register of Historic Places (National Register) areas of significance, and chronological period associated with the Victory Highway/U.S. Highway 40 (US 40) in Nevada. The historic context informs the registration requirements in the next section to identify and evaluate property types associated with the Victory Highway/US 40. It is to be used for completing determinations of eligibility for the associated property types for listing in the National Register and to complete individual National Register Nominations. The historic context provides the overall history and physical development of the Victory Highway as an early named transcontinental named highway and its designation as a numbered U.S. Highway. It discusses how roadbed segments that carried the Victory Highway in Nevada fit within the development of early vehicular roadways in Nevada and later state and federal transportation policy and design as a U.S. Highway. The Victory Highway was just one of many transportation corridors that crossed Nevada in the early twentieth century for automobile travel; however, it emerged as the primary east-west route in the state. Its history as the Victory Highway is associated with important national and state trends in early- twentieth-century transportation development under National Register Criterion A in the area of Transportation and for exhibiting important roadway design and construction under Criterion C in the area of Engineering.1 The Victory Highway was an early cross-country automobile route that extended from New York City to San Francisco associated with the Good Roads Movement and widely promoted by private interests. It developed as the primary state route and the most heavily trafficked roadway in northern Nevada providing interstate connection to Utah to the east and California to the west. As such, the Victory Highway represents the most successful private campaign to develop transcontinental routes in Nevada initiated during the Good Roads Movement. The Victory Highway Association (VHA) and local boosters saw the economic potential and benefit of improved roads and established the route in 1921 largely on an existing system of unimproved roads in Nevada that roughly paralleled the earlier California Trail. The VHA worked to improve and promote the Victory Highway in Nevada through at least the mid-1930s. After its designation as a U.S. Highway in 1926, the Nevada Department of Highways (NDH) improved the Victory Highway as US 40 and played an increasingly important role in its development. The maintenance responsibility 1 National Park Service, Lincoln Highway: Special Resource Study, Environmental Assessment (Washington, D.C.: National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, 2004). NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior The Victory HighwayPut Here in Nevada National Park Service Name of Property Elko, Pershing, Lander, Eureka, Humboldt, Churchill, Washoe Counties, NV National Register of Historic Places County and State Continuation Sheet The Victory Highway in Nevada Name of multiple listing (if applicable) Section number E Page 4 of the Victory Highway fell on the NDH and it became the primary interstate connection in northern Nevada, as well as part of the national strategic network of roads in 1939 leading up to World War II. As a result, distinct chronological periods related to the VHA and NDH stewardship emerged for the Victory Highway/US 40 as reflected under the areas of Transportation and Engineering. The chronological periods are described at the end of the historic context. Following the National Park Service guidelines for multiple property submissions, “the time period covered by the historic context is based on the period of time when the events significant to the historic context are known to have occurred.”2 This MPDF provides a chronological period related to its role and use as a named transcontinental highway in Section E, Statement of Historic Contexts; however, the section also includes a discussion of the development of this highway after 1939 to address its history and physical development as a U.S. Highway, US 40. This period is provided to understand its development after its role as a named transcontinental highway and to assist in identifying and evaluating associated property types in Section F. This MPDF does not address the significance of U.S. Highways in Nevada and properties that fall outside the chorological period identified for the Victory Highway, 1921-1939. Associated properties prior to this period or after this period may possess historical importance for themes not addressed in this MPDF, such as its role as an early U.S. Highway,