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 Lincoln Highway in Nevada B. Associated Historic Contexts (Name each associated historic context, identifying theme, geographical area, and chronological period for each.) The Lincoln Highway, statewide, 1913-1926 Lincoln Highway/US 50 and National Numbered Highway System, statewide, 1927-1937 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 Lincoln 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-78 G. Geographical Data G-105 H. Summary of Identification and Evaluation Methods (Discuss the methods used in developing the multiple property listing.) H-106 I. Major Bibliographical References (List major written works and primary location of additional documentation: State Historic I-107 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 Lincoln HighwayPut Here in Nevada National Park Service Name of Property Carson City, Churchill, Douglas, Elko, Eureka, Lander, Lyon, Washoe, White Pine Counties, NV National Register of Historic Places County and State Continuation Sheet The Lincoln 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 Lincoln Highway/U.S. Highway 50 (US 50) in Nevada. The historic context informs the registration requirements in the next section to identify and evaluate property types associated with the Lincoln Highway/US 50. 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. This section provides the historic context statement of the overall history and physical development of the Lincoln Highway as an early named transcontinental named highway and its designation as a numbered U.S. Highway. The historic context discusses how roadbed segments that carried the Lincoln 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 Lincoln Highway was the first east-west transcontinental transportation corridor crossing Nevada in the early twentieth century for automobile travel; however, at the state level after the Victory Highway/US 40 emerged it was increasingly relegated to a secondary position after 1926 and into the early 1930s. Its history as the Lincoln 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 Lincoln Highway was one of the first cross-country automobile routes associated with the Good Roads Movement that was widely promoted by private interests and extended from New York City to San Francisco. The Lincoln Highway Association and local boosters saw the economic potential and benefit of improved roads and established the route in 1913 largely on an existing system of unimproved roads in Nevada that roughly paralleled the earlier Central Overland Route. The Lincoln Highway represents among the earliest successful campaigns to develop and promote a transcontinental route in Nevada resulting from the Good Roads Movement. After the designation of the Victory Highway in 1921 and that highways’ designation as a U.S. Highway in 1927, the Lincoln Highway’s importance at the state level diminished and it developed as a secondary route providing interstate connection to Utah to the east and California to the west. The Nevada Department of Highways (NDH) improved and maintained the Lincoln Highway as US 50 and 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 Lincoln HighwayPut Here in Nevada National Park Service Name of Property Carson City, Churchill, Douglas, Elko, Eureka, Lander, Lyon, Washoe, White Pine Counties, NV National Register of Historic Places County and State Continuation Sheet The Lincoln Highway in Nevada Name of multiple listing (if applicable) Section number E Page 4 played an increasingly important role in its development. Additionally, state road advocates and local boosters increasingly promoted the route as a U.S. Highway, and decreased its promotion as the Lincoln Highway. By 1937, the LHA of Nevada had been replaced by an organization that promoted the route as US 50, which signaled the end of its active promotion as the Lincoln Highway. Two years later, the Lincoln Highway/US 50 became part of the national strategic network of roads as an alternate secondary route leading up to World War II. As a result, distinct chronological periods related to the LHA and NDH stewardship emerged for the Lincoln Highway/US 50. The chronological periods are summarized 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 1937 to address its history and physical development as a U.S. Highway, US 50. This period is provided to understand its development after its role as a named transcontinental highway and to assist in identifying and evaluating