Virginia Administrative Code › Title 17 - LIBRARIES AND CULTURAL RESOURCES › Agency 10 - DEPARTMENT OF HISTORIC RESOURCES › Chapter 20 - EVALUATION CRITERIA AND PROCEDURES FOR NOMINATIONS OF PROPERTY TO THE NATIONAL REGISTER OR FOR DESIGNATION AS A NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK › Part III - Resource Evaluation Criteria › Article 1 - National Register Criteria for Evaluation › Section 17VAC10-20-50 - Integrity

Current through Register Vol. 40, No. 24, July 15, 2024
In addition to determining a property's significance, the
						director shall also determine the property's integrity. A property has
						integrity if it retains the identity for which it is significant. In order to
						nominate a property to the National Register, the director must determine both
						that the property is significant and that it retains integrity. To determine
						whether a property retains integrity, the director shall consider the seven
						aspects set out here. Based on the reasons for a property's significance the
						director shall evaluate the property against those aspects that are the most
						critical measures of the property's integrity. The seven aspects are:
1. Location -- the place where the historic
					 property was constructed or the place where the historic event occurred. In
					 cases such as sites of historic events, the location itself, complemented by
					 the setting, is what people can use to visualize or recall the event.
2. Design -- the combination of elements that
					 create the form, plan, space, structure, and style of the property. Design
					 results from the conscious decisions in the conception and planning of a
					 property and may apply to areas as diverse as community planning, engineering,
					 architecture, and landscape architecture. Principal aspects of design include
					 organization of space, proportion, scale, technology, and ornament.
3. Setting -- the physical environment of the
					 historic property, as distinct from the specific place where the property was
					 built or the event occurred. The physical features that constitute setting may
					 be natural or man-made, and may include topographic features, vegetation,
					 simple man-made features such as paths or fences, and relationships of a
					 building to other features or to open space.
4. Materials -- the physical elements that
					 were combined or deposited during a particular period of time and in a
					 particular pattern or configuration to form a historic property. The integrity
					 of materials determines whether or not an authentic historic resource still
					 exists.
5. Workmanship -- the
					 physical evidence of the crafts of a particular culture or people during any
					 given period in history or prehistory. Workmanship may be expressed in
					 vernacular methods of construction and plain finishes or in highly
					 sophisticated configurations and ornamental detailing. It may be based on
					 common traditions or innovative period techniques. Examples of workmanship
					 include tooling, carving, painting, graining, turning, or joinery.
6. Feeling -- the property's expression of
					 the aesthetic or historic sense of a particular period of time. Although it is
					 itself intangible, feeling depends upon the presence of physical
					 characteristics to convey the historic qualities that evoke feeling. Because it
					 is dependent upon the perception of each individual, integrity of feeling alone
					 will never be sufficient to support nomination to the National
					 Register.
7. Association -- the
					 direct link between an important historic event or person and a historic
					 property. If a property has integrity of association, then the property is the
					 place where the event or activity occurred and is sufficiently intact that it
					 can convey that relationship.
Statutory Authority
§ 10.1-2202 of the Code of Virginia.