A reconstructed building when accurately executed in a suitable environment and presented in a dignified manner as part of a restoration master plan, and when no other building or structure with the same association has survived. A property primarily commemorative in intent if design, age, tradition, or symbolic value has invested it with its own historical significance. A property achieving significance within the past fifty years if it is of exceptional importance. Below are categories of properties eligible for the Pierce County Register. Historic structures or sites in which the cultural, political, economic, or social history of the nation, state, or local community is best exemplified and from which the visitor may understand the patterns of American and Pierce County heritage.
Integrity is an essential basis for deserving recording.
Sites and groupings representing historic community developments and patterns. Early or abandoned transportation facilities. Old commercial structures and sites. Structures related to the civic life of a community. Buildings of great architects or master builders and important works of minor ones.