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Evaluating: How to Evaluate and Nominate Designed Historic Landscapes, National Regi... Page 7 of 8 <br />instances it may be possible to enhance integrity through maintenance, replanting, or other <br />restoration or reconstruction procedures. <br />In most instances the original boundaries of the landscape design will define the limits of the <br />geographic area to be evaluated. Adjacent offsite conditions will not be considered in the <br />evaluation of integrity, unless they were included as part of the original design intent. In <br />such cases, a landscape's immediate surroundings may have an impact on an evaluation of <br />integrity. Major adjacent encroachment, such as highways, parking lots, and new buildings, <br />may violate the original design intent and intrude upon the property. Views from the <br />property, for example, that were intended to be pastoral but that are now industrial, or views <br />that were established along sight lines to buildings, monuments, or other features that have <br />been destroyed, may be a serious detriment to the integrity of a historic landscape. <br />6. Determine the Need for Special Justification <br />Certain types of properties do not usually qualify for the National Register. Cemeteries, <br />birthplaces or graves of historical figures, properties owned by religious institutions or used <br />for religious purposes, structures that have been moved from their original locations, <br />reconstructed historic buildings, properties primarily commemorative in nature, and <br />properties that have achieved significance within the past 50 years are not ordinarily <br />considered eligible for the National Register. However, such properties will qualify under <br />the criteria as they apply to designed historic landscapes if they are integral parts of districts <br />that do meet the criteria or if they fall within the following categories: <br />a, a religious property deriving primary significance from architectural or artistic <br />distinction or historical importance; or <br />b. a building or structure removed from its original location but which is significant <br />primarily for architectural value, or which is the surviving structure most importantly <br />associated with a historic person or event; or <br />c. a birthplace or grave of a historical figure of outstanding importance if there is no <br />other appropriate site or building directly associated with his or her productive life; or <br />d. a cemetery that derives its primary significance from graves of persons of <br />transcendent importance, from age, from distinctive design features, or from <br />association with historic events, or <br />e. a reconstructed building when accurately executed in a suitable environment and <br />presented in a dignified manner as part of a restoration master plan, and when no other <br />building or structure with the same association has survived; or <br />f. a property primarily commemorative in intent if design, age, tradition, or symbolic <br />value has invested it with its own historical significance; or <br />g. a property achieving significance within the past 50 years if it is of exceptional <br />importance. <br />Usually considerations b and c above do not apply to designed historic landscapes, but there <br />may be historic districts that contain properties that must meet these considerations to <br />httn• //t u nns anv/NR /nuhlicatinns /bulletins /nrbl8 /nrbl8 5.htm 2/28/2014 <br />