Virginia Administrative Code › Title 17 - LIBRARIES AND CULTURAL RESOURCES › Agency 5 - BOARD OF HISTORIC RESOURCES › Chapter 30 - EVALUATION CRITERIA AND PROCEDURES FOR DESIGNATIONS BY THE BOARD OF HISTORIC RESOURCES › Part III - Virginia Landmarks Register Criteria for Evaluation › Section 17VAC5-30-50 - Integrity

Current through Register Vol. 40, No. 24, July 15, 2024
In addition to determining a property's significance, the
					 board shall also determine the property's integrity. A property has integrity
					 if it retains the identity for which it is significant. In order to designate a
					 property, the board must determine both that the property is significant and
					 that it retains integrity. To determine whether a property retains integrity,
					 the board shall consider the seven aspects set out here. Based on the reasons
					 for a property's significance the board 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 designation for inclusion in the Virginia
				  Landmarks 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
§ 10.1-2205 of the Code of Virginia.