The state historical board shall consider historic and prehistoric sites, structures, buildings, objects, neighborhoods, networks, and cultural landscapes eligible for inclusion in the registry if it can be demonstrated that:
1. They have been associated with and now illustrate, recall, or characterize one or more of the following: k. Other patterns or phenomena that had a significant influence on or are important reflections of the prehistoric or historic development or identity of the state, or of a region, community, or cultural group within the state, or; 2. They are distinctive or they distinctively illustrate one or more of the following: c. Types or methods of construction; d. Vernacular, popular, or traditional building design; e. Landscape architecture; f. Urban design or planning; g. Works of significant architects, designers, builders, or planners; h. Monumental sculpture; or i. Industrial, technological, or engineering design, or other architectural, aesthetic, or engineering expressions that characterize, are unique to, possess special artistic or aesthetic values for, or had an important influence on the historic or prehistoric community, or cultural group for which they were created, or; 3. They contain information about or evidence of one or more of the following historic or prehistoric: k. Folkways, or other facets of development and cultural systems that are known or established likely to be important to professional or public knowledge or understanding of earlier cultures or cultural systems or of the development of the state or of regions or communities within the state, and; 4. They possess integrity of form, material, and setting, generally retaining those historic characteristics such as: b. Evidence of workmanship; e. Surroundings that convey, support, represent, orcontain values and qualities for which they are judged significant. N.D. Admin Code 40-02-01-03
Effective July 1, 1982; amended effective March 1, 1986.General Authority: NDCC 28-32-01, 28-32-02
Law Implemented: NDCC 55-10-02(4)