Defining Boundaries for National Register Properties
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NATIONAL REGISTER BULLETIN Technical information on the the National Register of Historic Places: survey, evaluation, registration, and preservation of cultural resources U.S. Department of the Interior National Park Service Cultural Resources National Register, History and Education DEFINING BOUNDARIES FOR NATIONAL REGISTER PROPERTIES The mission of the Department of the Interior is to protect and provide access to our Nation's natural and cultural heritage and honor our trust responsibilities to tribes. This material is partially based upon work conducted under a cooperative agreement with the National Conference of State Historic Preservation Officers and the U.S. Department of the Interior. Cover: (Top Left) Detail of USGS map showing the National Register boundaries of the Columbia Historic District in Cedarburg, Wisconsin. (Top Right) View of Architect Marcel Breuer's International Style home in Lincoln, Massachusetts. (Ruth Williams) (Bottom Left) View of the Roxborough State Park Archeological District near Waterton, Colorado. (William Tate) (Bottom Right) Detail of a 1987 land survey map definingthe property boundaries of Gunston Hall in Buncombe County, North Carolina. (Blue Ridge Land Surveying, Inc.) NATIONAL REGISTER BULLETIN DEFINING BOUNDARIES FOR NATIONAL REGISTER PROPERTIES BY DONNA J. SEIFERT including Barbara J. Little, Beth L. Savage, and John H. Sprinkle, Jr. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES 1995, REVISED 1997 TABLE OF CONTENTS PREFACE .................................................................................................................................................................................................. ii CREDITS AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS .......................................................................................................................................... iii I. DEFINING BOUNDARIES FOR NATIONAL REGISTER PROPERTIES ................................................................................. 1 Why Boundaries are Important .............................................................................................................................................. 1 Getting Help .............................................................................................................................................................................. 1 Deciding What to Include ........................................................................................................................................................ 2 Factors to Consider ................................................................................................................................................................... 2 Selecting Boundaries ................................................................................................................................................................ 3 Revising Boundaries ................................................................................................................................................................. 4 II. DOCUMENTING BOUNDARIES .................................................................................................................................................. 5 Completing Section 10, Geographical Data .......................................................................................................................... 5 The Verbal Boundary Description and Boundary Justification ........................................................................................ 5 Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) References ............................................................................................................. 6 Global Positioning System (GPS) ........................................................................................................................................... 6 III. CASE STUDIES ................................................................................................................................................................................. 7 Boundaries for Buildings ......................................................................................................................................................... 7 Buildings in Urban Settings ...................................................................................................................................... 7 Buildings in Rural Settings ..................................................................................................................................... 10 Boundaries for Historic Districts .......................................................................................................................................... 12 Contiguous Districts in Urban Settirigs ................................................................................................................ 13 Discontiguous Districts in Urban Settings ........................................................................................................... 16 Contiguous Districts in Rural Settings .................................................................................................................. 17 Discontiguous Districts in Rural Settings ............................................................................................................. 23 Parks as Districts ....................................................................................................................................................... 23 Boundaries for Particular Property Types .......................................................................................................................... 27 Traditional Cultural Properties .............................................................................................................................. 27 Mining Proper hes ..................................................................................................................................................... 27 Boundaries for Archeological Sites and Districts .............................................................................................................. 30 Archeological Sites ................................................................................................................................................... 31 Contiguous Archeological Districts ....................................................................................................................... 33 Discontiguous Archeological Districts .................................................................................................................. 34 Shipwreck Sites ......................................................................................................................................................... 35 Boundaries for Historic Sites ................................................................................................................................................ 36 Boundaries for Objects ........................................................................................................................................................... 40 Boundaries for Structures ...................................................................................................................................................... 41 IV. REFERENCES ................................................................................................................................................................................. 45 V. NATIONAL REGISTER CRITERIA FOR EVALUATION ........................................................................................................ 46 VI. NATIONAL REGISTER BULLETINS ......................................................................................................................................... 47 APPENDIX: Definition of National Register Boundaries for Archeological Properties (formerly National Register Bulletin 12: Definition of National Register Boundaries for Archeological Properties) ....................... 48 PREFACE The National Register of Historic document, and register significant This bulletin was prepared by Places is the official Federal list of properties. This bulletin is designed Donna J. Seifert, archeologist, under a districts, sites, buildings, structures, to help preparers properly select, cooperative agreement between the and objects significant in American define, and document boundaries for National Conference of State Historic history, architecture, archeology, National Register listings and deter Preservation Officers and the Na engineering, and culture. National minations of eligibility. It includes tional Park Service. Register properties have significance basic guidelines for selecting bound in the prehistory or history of their aries to assist the preparer in complet Carol D. Shull community, State, or the nation. The ing the National Register Registration Keeper, National Register is maintained by the Form. Examples of a variety of National Register of Historic Places National Park Service on behalf of the property types are presented. These National Park Service Secretary of the Interior. examples illustrate several ways to U.S. Department of the Interior National Register Bulletins provide address boundary issues. guidance on how to identify, evaluate, ii CREDITS AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This bulletin addresses