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Propulsion and Structural Test Facility, an NHL in Alabama.
Propulsion and Structural Test Facility, an NHL in Alabama.
Elihu Root House, an NHL in New York.
Elihu Root House, an NHL in New York.
Mission San Xavier del Bac, an NHL in Arizona.
Mission San Xavier del Bac, an NHL in Arizona.
Steamboat Belle of Louisville, a Kentucky NHL.
Steamboat Belle of Louisville, a Kentucky NHL.
Woodbury County Courthouse an NHL in Iowa, by George Grant Elmslie
Woodbury County Courthouse an NHL in Iowa, by George Grant Elmslie
Castillo de San Marcos in Florida
Castillo de San Marcos in Florida
S. C. Johnson & Son administration building in Wisconsin
S. C. Johnson & Son administration building in Wisconsin
Taliesin, Spring Green, Wisconsin
Taliesin, Spring Green, Wisconsin
Villa Louis, Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin
Villa Louis, Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin
Mount Rushmore in South Dakota
Mount Rushmore in South Dakota

Welcome to the National Register of Historic Places WikiProject. We are a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of listings on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.

(For general information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject and the Guide to WikiProjects).

[edit] Project information

[edit] Scope

The project covers all articles about U.S. National Register of Historic Places listings.

[edit] Goals

  • Improve Wikipedia's coverage of listings on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places
  • Create guidelines for articles about U.S. National Register of Historic Places listings


Contents

[edit] Members

Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.

  1. Acroterion  (talk · contribs)   National parks, and portions of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia
  2. AgnosticPreachersKid (talk · contribs)   North Carolina, Washington, D.C.
  3. AlabamaGuy2007 (talk · contribs)   (Alabama, especially in Northern Alabama, more specifically the Decatur Area)
  4. AlbertHerring (talk · contribs)   What I can, when I can, mainly Washington, D.C. and Virginia
  5. Altairisfar (talk · contribs)   Alabama, especially in Marengo, Mobile, and Wilcox Counties.
  6. Appraiser (talk · contribs)   (Minnesota)
  7. Averette (talk · contribs)   (Places in South Florida and other parts of Florida).
  8. Bedford (talk · contribs)   (Indiana & Kentucky)
  9. Bernstein2291 (talk · contribs)   I know about sites in the new york city area
  10. BigrTex (talk · contribs)   (Central Texas for now)
  11. Broooooooce (talk · contribs)   (Historic Places in Pulaski County, Arkansas)
  12. Caponer (talk · contribs)   (West Virginia and various locales in Virginia).
  13. Cg-realms  (talk · contribs)   National historic sites in upstate New York and sites in neighboring states in Massachusetts, Connecticut and Vermont
  14. Check-Six (talk · contribs)   (California)
  15. ChicagoPimp (talk · contribs)   primarily National Historic Landmarks and Registered Historic Places in Chicago
  16. Chrissypan (talk · contribs)   primarily Connecticut
  17. Clariosophic (talk · contribs)   Middlesex County, Massachusetts, and a few other places)
  18. CPacker (talk · contribs)   (Wagoner County, Oklahoma)
  19. Daniel Case (talk · contribs)   (will add Orange County, New York to this project among all the other local-interest articles I work on).
  20. Dhartung (talk · contribs)   primarily Wisconsin & Illinois
  21. Dincher (talk · contribs)   Pennsylvania State Parks and other places in Pennsylvania
  22. Dmadeo (talk · contribs)   (Manhattan)
  23. Dogears (talk · contribs)   (New York & Pennsylvania)
  24. Doncram (talk · contribs)   (landmarks in New York . which has the most of any state, and (places in California)
  25. Dsmdgold (talk · contribs)   (Oklahoma, especially Tulsa, Osage, and Washington counties.
  26. Dudemanfellabra (talk · contribs)   (Lauderdale County, Mississippi)
  27. Ebyabe (talk · contribs)   (Florida)
  28. Einbierbitte (talk · contribs)   nationwide, copy edit, anything else I can help with
  29. Elkman (talk · contribs)   (Minnesota)
  30. epolk (talk · contribs)   Southern California, particularly Los Angeles and Orange Counties. Also, sourcing for info about sites.
  31. Fl295 (talk · contribs)   (Florida)
  32. FloNight (talk · contribs)   Mostly (Kentucky), also Florida, Georgia, Ohio, and West Virginia.
  33. Freechild (talk · contribs)   Nebraska, Washington state, New Mexico
  34. G LeTourneau (talk · contribs)   Northern Illinois
  35. GamblinMonkey (talk · contribs)   Georgia and Tennessee
  36. Gmatsuda (talk · contribs)   Manzanar National Historic Site
  37. Geologyguy (talk · contribs) Western US, Butte, Montana in particular
  38. Hjal (talk · contribs) California, esp Marin County, San Jose, & Southern Alameda County; also Dodge County, Minnesota
  39. Howcheng (talk · contribs)   Whatever is easy to copy and paste from public domain NPS sources
  40. Huwmanbeing (talk · contribs)   (Indiana and eastern Illinois)
  41. Ipoellet (talk · contribs)   Pacific Northwest
  42. IvoShandor (talk · contribs)   (Illinois), photography, Good article reviews.
  43. Jauerback (talk · contribs)   Illinois & photography
  44. Jfknrh (talk · contribs)   Interested in Georgia and Virginia
  45. Justin Herbert (talk · contribs)   (Arizona, specifically Eastern Arizona; Graham County/Greenlee County
  46. Kestenbaum (talk · contribs)   (Mainly Michigan and Midwest).
  47. Kjmoran (talk · contribs)   Ohio and Dayton, Ohio
  48. Lordkinbote (talk · contribs)   (concentrating on articles related to the California Missions and related topics).
  49. lvklock (talk · contribs)   Upstate New York and anywhere I happen to go
  50. Malepheasant (talk · contribs)   Twin Cities, West Virginia
  51. MONGO (talk · contribs)
  52. Motorrad-67 (talk · contribs)   Wisconsin and Arizona and Archtectural photography
  53. MPHamilton (talk · contribs)   Ohio County, West Virginia
  54. Mr.Z-man (talk · contribs)   Michigan and Midwest
  55. Myselfalso (talk · contribs)   (I can work on places in Pennsylvania).
  56. Noles1984 (talk · contribs)   (Florida)
  57. Nv8200p (talk · contribs)   (Travis County, Texas, Bastrop County, Texas)
  58. Oddharmonic (talk · contribs)   (Colorado, Nevada; photography of places in Colorado and in Collin, Dallas and Denton counties, Texas).
  59. Paulmcdonald (talk · contribs)   Cloud County, Kansas
  60. Paultyng (talk · contribs)   Ohio, specifically Cincinnati, Ohio
  61. Rklawton (talk · contribs)   (photography)
  62. Ruhrfisch (talk · contribs)   (mostly places in Pennsylvania)
  63. Salmar (talk · contribs)   (mostly Wisconsin; maybe various other places later).
  64. Sanfranman59 (talk · contribs)   (Ohio, esp. Stark County, and California, esp. SF Bay Area)
  65. Smileyface_12_91 (talk · contribs) (Oregon)
  66. Swampyank (talk · contribs) (Rhode Island)
  67. Tarnation (talk · contribs)   (Madison County, Alabama)
  68. Toddst1 (talk · contribs)   Mostly colonial stuff, but will contribute across time and geography
  69. TonyTheTiger (talk · contribs)   National Historic Landmarks and Registered Historic Places in Chicago
  70. Whyaduck (talk · contribs)   (Mostly California, but theaters anywhere)
  71. Wrightchr (talk · contribs)   local-interest articles in Pennsylvania
  72. BFDhD (talk · contribs)   Ohio places on National Register, historic theatres. . . .

[edit] Divisions

  • Assessment
  • Collaboration: Now live. Nominate your candidates within. There are some very short and simple instructions to follow. : )
  • Frank Lloyd Wright: Frank Lloyd Wright related Historic Places collaboration.
  • Sources: Information sources available for use as reliable sources in NRHP related articles.

[edit] Task Forces

[edit] Guidelines

[edit] Article names

The name of the article should be the current, formal title of the place. Other accepted names can be indicated in the first sentence with bold text. If there are multiple places with the same name, the article should be entitled Name (City[, state if necessary]).

[edit] Wikilinks

  • All the separate lists for each state or territory need to have their blue links checked, to make sure they are linked to unique articles. Disambiguation is required for a number of articles, especially common names for the local "Post Office" and train stations or churches. Make use of piped links for an existing article with a different name than the title that appears on the NRHP.
  • Click on a red link that appears on the list. From the resulting page, "search for the article in Wikipedia" to possibly locate an existing article with a different name about the building or place. The name on the list should match the name on the NRHP database - with corrected spelling, as required (Refer to: Other useful links, below). Use a piped link from the existing article name to the redlink on the list. In this way, the Palmer-Perkins House (Boundary Increase) will be linked directly to the Palmer-Perkins House article, for example.

[edit] Open tasks

Tasks Open tasks for WikiProject National Register of Historic Places.

Edit or discuss these tasks.
  • Portal - create one for the project, more…
  • Blue links - Verify they are for correct region and state: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, more…
  • Disambiguation - Administration Building, Alexander Hotel, Boone House, more...
    • Boundary increase/decrease entries - Create pipe links, more…
    • Verifying locations - Check for non-existent communities, more…
    • Pre-existing entries - Places may be known by another name, more…
  • Stub addition - When a National Register article is ready, more…
  • Incoming links - After creating a stub or article, more…
  • Talk pages - Insert template on the article talk page, more…

[edit] Recognized content

[edit] Front page articles

[edit] Featured content

[edit] Good articles

[edit] Did you know (DYK)s

[edit] June 2008
[edit] May 2008
[edit] April 2008
[edit] March 2008
[edit] February 2008
[edit] January 2008
[edit] 2007

See here.

[edit] 2006

See here.

[edit] Formerly recognized content

[edit] Former featured articles

[edit] Former good articles

[edit] Candidates

[edit] New articles and pictures

Articles Pictures
Please feel free to list your new National Register of Historic Places-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box of the Main Page. Please feel free to list National Register of Historic Places-related articles with new pictures added to them here (newer articles at the top, please). Consider nominating any particularly striking ones as featured pictures, either here or on WikiCommons, wherever they are stored.
[edit] June 2008
[edit] May 2008

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[edit] April 2008

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[edit] March 2008
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--doncram (talk) 10:14, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] 2007

See here.

[edit] 2006

See here.
[edit] June 2008
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[edit] January 2008
[edit] 2007

See here.

[edit] Collaboration and review

Caldera in the Aniakchak National Monument and Preserve in Alaska
Caldera in the Aniakchak National Monument and Preserve in Alaska

WikiProject: assessment department - Instructions and FAQ

National Register of Historic Places
articles		 Importance
None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 21 21
Featured list FL 1 1
Good article GA 58 58
B 378 378
Start 2456 2456
Stub 7830 7830
List 379 379
Assessed 11123 11123
Unassessed 2 2
Total 11125 11125

See also: Template: {{WikiProject National Register of Historic Places}}, below.

Collaboration of the week


Peer review

[edit] Tabulations of WP:NRHP Progress

[edit] Article quality status by State

These are tabulated manually. Feel free to update your state's information.

[edit] Quality of Articles by State

FA class: California has 3 ! GA+ class: Illinois has 20 !

Manual tabulation of WP:NRHP article quality status, by state, as of 9/19/2007
State Featured A Good B Start Stub List Assessed List Unassessed Total
AR 1[1]
CA 3[2] 5
CO 1
CT 1
DC
HI 1[3]
ID 1[4]
IL 2[5] 20
KY 1
LA 2[6]
MD 1[7] 2
MI 2[8]
MN 13 71 99 183
NJ 2[9]
NM 1[10] 1
NY 1[11]
OK 1
OR 1[12] 1
PA 1[13] 1  ?
SD 1[14]
TN 1
TX 1
WI 125
Com&Terr 2
Assoc
Foreign 1  ?
Unlocated 0 0 7  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?
Total (current) 19 0 48 337 2078 5960 8735 6 293 8741
Total (2/11/2008) 19 0 48 337 2078 5960 8735 6 293 8741
Total (11/08/2007) 18 0 44 327 1893 5489 268 8039 0! 8039
Total (10/25/2007) 17 0 42 316 1760 5255  ? 7390 295 7685
Total (10/2/2007) 16 0 38 299 1600 4838  ? 6791 520 7311
Total (9/19/2007) 16 0 38 278 1523 4568  ? 6423 751 7174


Footnotes:

  1. ^ AR: Monte Ne
  2. ^ CA: Manzanar, Ridge Route, San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
  3. ^ HI: USS Missouri (BB-63)
  4. ^ ID: Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve
  5. ^ IL: List of Chicago Landmarks,Chicago Board of Trade Building
  6. ^ LA: New Orleans Mint,Shotgun house
  7. ^ MD: Baltimore City College
  8. ^ MI: Mackinac Island, Michigan State Capitol
  9. ^ NJ: USS New Jersey (BB-62), Pulaski Skyway
  10. ^ NM: Chaco Culture National Historical Park
  11. ^ NY: GA--Chrysler Building
  12. ^ OR: Oregon State Capitol
  13. ^ PA: Joseph Priestley House
  14. ^ SD: Mount Rushmore

[edit] NHL articles by State

The purpose of this manual tabulation is to track and encourage development of NHL articles, listed in state-specific liss of NHLs themselves listed at List of National Historic Landmarks by state.

  • Every NHL deserves an article.
  • Certainly each should get a photo or other image.
  • NRHP infoboxes are suitable for most but perhaps not all. Some articles already have another infobox type, it may or may not be helpful to add a NRHP infobox. However NRHP infobox often can be added below another infobox, perhaps with only key fields filled out.
  • NRHP infoboxes now can separately include NHL designation date as a field.
  • Almost every NHL article can include a link to the National Park Service summary about that NHL, for example [NHL link for Mar-A-Lago site]. To be excluded only if the NHL summary is not available. The count indicates number of links.
  • For many NHLs, the National Park Service has a PDF copy of the text of the site's nomination for NHL status, or an "Inventory/Registration" form. This can be linked from the article. See [NRHP text PDF link example for Mar-A-Lago]. The count indicates number of links.
  • For almost as many NHLs, there is also a PDF of photographs accompanying the site's nomination or inventory/registration. For example, see [NRHP photos PDF link for Mar-A-Lago]. The count indicates number of links.
[edit] NHLs by Area

3 NHL articles at Featured Article; 16 at Good Article or better;
4 NHL area lists at B-Class now with ALABAMA;
47 area list-articles at Start+ (meaning each has 100% of NHLs at Stub+), now with now with DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA and MAINE

Manual tabulation of NHL articles by area (* denotes at max possible)
State status #NHLs Stub
#Stub+		 Start
#Start+		 B
#B+		 Good article GA
#Good+		 Featured article FA
#FA		 #w/
Image		 #NRHP
ibox		 #ibox has
NHL date		 #NHL
sum
linked		 #NRHP
text
linked		 #NRHP
photos
linked
1 Alabama B 36 36* 36* 5+ 36* 36* 36* 36* 30~ 25~
2 Alaska Start 48 48  ?  ? 17 40~ 40~ 40~ 30~ 30~
3 Arizona Start 40 40*  ?  ? 14 40* 40* 40* 30* 26*
4 Arkansas Start 17 17*  ?  ? 4 15 15* 17* 14* 9*
5 California Start 134 134*  ?  ? 1[1] 50~ 20+ 20+ 20+ 20+ 20+
6 Colorado Start 20 20*  ?  ? 1[2] 14 20* 20* 20* 14? 16?
7 Connecticut Start 59 59*  ?  ? 1[3] 22 59* 59* 59* 48* 50*
8 Delaware Start 12 12*  ?  ? 9 12* 12* 12* 12* 11*
9 Florida Start 39 39*  ?  ? 33 34 1+ 21 1 1
10 Georgia Start 47 47*  ?  ? 31  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?
11 Hawaii Start 33 33*  ?  ? 16  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?
12 Idaho Start 10 10* 7  ? 9~ 9~ 9~ 9~ 9~ 8~
13 Illinois Start 83 83*  ?  ? 6[4] 60 60~ 60~ 60~ 20? 20?
14 Indiana Start 37 37*  ?  ? 22  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?
15 Iowa Start 24 24*  ?  ? 8 24* 24* 24* 18* 17*
16 Kansas Start 23 23*  ?  ? 5  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?
17 Kentucky Start 30 30*  ?  ? 14  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?
18 Louisiana Start 53 53* 10+  ? 1 1[5] 31 53* 53* 53* 50~* 48~*
19 Maine Start 41 41  ?  ? 11  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?
20 Maryland Stub 71 35  ?  ? 51  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?
21 Massachusetts Stub 183 133?  ?  ? 118  ?  ? 3? 3? 3?
22 Michigan Start 34 34  ?  ? 1 1[6] 22  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?
23 Minnesota B 22 22* 22*  ? 22* 22* 22* 22* 20* 19*
24 Mississippi Start 38 38*  ?  ? 8 38* 38* 38* 30? 25?
25 Missouri Stub 37 12  ?  ? 13  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?
26 Montana Start 21 21*  ?  ? 11 13 13 13~ 13~ 13~
27 Nebraska Start 20 20  ?  ? 4  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?
28 Nevada Start 7 7*  ?  ? 4 7* 7* 7* 5? 4?
29 New Hampshire Start 22 22*  ?  ? 5 22* 22* 22* 20~* 20~*
30 New Jersey Start 55 55*  ?  ? 27  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?
31 New Mexico Stub 44 15  ?  ? 11  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?
32 New York City B 108 108*  ?  ? 1[7] 104~* 105~* 105~* 109? 105~* 95~*
33 New York B 147 147* 70~ 20? 120 140~ 140~* 146 141~* 131~*
34 North Carolina Start 38 38*  ?  ? 16  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?
35 North Dakota Start 5 5*  ?  ? 2 5* 5* 5* 4* 3*
36 Ohio Stub 69 43  ?  ? 42  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?
37 Oklahoma Start 20 20  ?  ? 8 20 20 20 18~* 16~*
38 Oregon Start 16 16~  ?  ? 13 5? 5? 5? 5? 5?
39 Philadelphia Start 64 64*  ?  ? 59 40? 40? 40? 40? 35?
40 Pennsylvania Start 94 94*  ?  ? 1 1[8] 53 70~ 70~ 70~ 70~ 65~
41 Rhode Island Start 44 44  ?  ? 44  ? 1 1 1 1
42 South Carolina Start 77 77*  ?  ? 67 75? 75? 75? 70? 65?
43 South Dakota Stub 14 5  ?  ? 4  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?
44 Tennessee Start 27 27*  ?  ? 16  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?
45 Texas Stub 46 26  ?  ? 1[9] 21  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?
46 Utah Start 13 13*  ?  ? 8 5+ 5+ 5+ 5+ 5+
47 Vermont Start 17 17*  ?  ? 6 17* 17* 17* 15~* 13~*
48 Virginia Start 118 118  ?  ? 1[10] 92  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?
49 Washington Start 22[11] 22*  ?  ? 1[12] 23* 10? 10? 10? 5? 4?
50 West Virginia Start 16 16*  ?  ? 11 16* 16* 16* 14~ 12~
51 Wisconsin Start 39 39*  ?  ? 14 39* 39* 39* 35~* 35~*
52 Wyoming Start 24 24*  ?  ? 17  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?
53 District of Columbia Start 74 74  ?  ? 49  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?
54 Commonwealths and Territories Stub 15 9  ?  ? 6  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?
55 Associated States Stub 5 5*  ?  ? 3  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?
56 Foreign States Stub 1 1*  ?  ? 1* 1* 1* 1*  ?  ?
57 TOTAL
AS OF
5/12/2008		 2442 2242  ?  ? 16 3 1502  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?
58 PERCENT
AS OF
5/12/2008		 91.1%  ?  ? 0.65% 0.1% 61.0%  ?%  ?%  ?%  ?%  ?%
59 TOTAL
AS OF
4/27/2008		 2442 2157  ?  ? 16 3 1303  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?
60 PERCENT
AS OF
4/27/2008		 87.7%  ?  ? 0.65% 0.1% 53%  ?%  ?%  ?%  ?%  ?%
61 TOTAL
AS OF
4/14/2008		 2456 2099  ?  ? 16 3 1255  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?
62 PERCENT
AS OF
4/14/2008		 85.5%  ?  ? 0.6% 0.1% 51%  ?%  ?%  ?%  ?%  ?%
63 TOTAL
AS OF
4/1/2008		 2429 2020  ?  ? 15 3 1127  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?
64 PERCENT
AS OF
4/1/2008		 83.1%  ?  ? 0.6% 0.1% 46%  ?%  ?%  ?%  ?%  ?%
65 TOTAL
AS OF
3/9/2008		 2429 1958  ?  ? 15 3 924  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?
66 PERCENT
AS OF
3/9/2008		 80.6%  ?  ? 0.6% 0.1% 38%  ?%  ?%  ?%  ?%  ?%
67 TOTAL
AS OF
2/11/2008		 2430 1826  ?  ? 15 3 924 619 571 621 483 449
68 PERCENT
AS OF
2/11/2008		 75.1%  ?  ? 0.6% 0.1% 38% 25% 23% 26% 20% 18%
69 TOTAL,
EST AS OF
10/25/2007		 2432 1433  ?  ?  ?  ? 640 619 571 621 483 449
70 PERCENT
AS OF
10/25/2007		 59%  ?  ?  ?  ? 26% 25% 23% 26% 20% 18%

Footnotes:

  1. ^ CA GA: Rancho Camulos
  2. ^ CO GA: United States Air Force Academy
  3. ^ CT GA: Mark Twain House
  4. ^ IL GAs: the new department store one, John Deere House and Shop, Heller House, Hull House, Marquette Building (Chicago), Rookery Building, University of Illinois Observatory
  5. ^ LA FA: New Orleans Mint
  6. ^ MI FA: Michigan State Capitol
  7. ^ NYC GA: Chrysler Building
  8. ^ PA FA: Joseph Priestley House
  9. ^ TX GA: USS Texas (BB-35)
  10. ^ VA GA:Gunston Hall
  11. ^ WA NHLs: 22 not primarily listed in another state, while 23 in total
  12. ^ WA GA: Marmes Rockshelter

[edit] Photo requests

See Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in the United States


[edit] Help for editors

[edit] Style guide for articles on NRHPs

See our fledgling Wikipedia:WikiProject National Register of Historic Places/Style guide.

[edit] Sources for information on National Register of Historic Places

[edit] Lists of NRHPs and basic facts about them

Lists of NRHPs are available, organized by state and county, within List of National Register of Historic Places entries. For example, List of Registered Historic Places in Onondaga County, New York is one list with pictures for some of its NRHPs. Almost all of the 79,000 NRHPs in the U.S. are probably listed on one of these lists, thanks to continued efforts of WP:NRHP members. But most of the NRHP sites listed are "red-links" with no articles yet. (About 1600 of the 2400 or so NRHPs that are also National Historic Landmarks have blue-links already.)

To find address lists of NRHPs in a given area, it may sometimes be easiest to work with data available from NationalRegisterOfHistoricPlaces.Com, a commercial site that serves up some of the public domain data from the NRIS system. For example, see NRHP.COM's List of NRHPs in Onondaga County, New York. You can change the state and county name in the URL to one you are interested in. Each county report from this source contains a separate tab for the Historic Districts within the county, in which it provides useful numbers of contributing and non-contributing elements in each district.

The same information should be available from the National Register information system (NRIS), available here (to be added), but getting to the right screens to get all of the same data is not easy to figure out. To perform a name search, try here (to be added). To perform an architect search, try here (to be added). It is particularly not clear how to identify whether a given NRHP is a historic district vs. a building, site, structure, or object. (Using either the NRHP.COM site or the Elkman infobox generator, one can ascertain, somewhat indirectly, only whether or not a site is a historic district.)

Every Friday, the National Park Service publishes the Weekly Update, which includes all actions on the National Register for the prior week(s): additions; removals; boundary increases and decreases; additional documentation; approvals of multiple covers (MPS); and designations of NHLs. The Weekly Update can be found here.

[edit] Elkman NRHP infobox generator

For editing new articles on NRHPs, there's a useful tool created and maintained by Elkman, a WP:NRHP member. This is the Elkman NRHP infobox generator, which creates the NRHP infobox for a new page, which you cut and paste into your new article. It serves up data from one big download of NRIS data that was performed on January 23, 2007. The January 23 date should be left in the footnote reference provided as part of its output.

Also, the new Elkman county list table generator creates a wikitable in the new/evolving format of NRHP list-tables.

[edit] Official text and photo documents

Official sources available for many NRHP sites include the NRHP text document, the corresponding NRHP photos document, and, in some states, correspondence between owners and the state and/or Federal offices involved in listing. The NRHP text document may be labelled a NRHP Registration form, or it may be labelled a NRHP Inventory/Nomination form. For NRHPs that are also National Historic Landmarks, there may be a National Historic Landmark Nomination form instead of, or in addition to, the NRHP text document. The photos are black and white. These are the official, definitive sources on some aspects of NHL sites. For example they contain official descriptions of the area which is included in the landmark, which might not be available anywhere else.

[edit] NRHP text document
  • For National Historic Landmarks, especially, the National Park Service's NPS Focus search site is a good place to start. It provides access to the original text description and photos of most NRHPS that are also National Historic Landmark sites, for most or all sites that are also National Historic Sites, and for some NRHPs that are neither.

Some states provide scanned copies for all of their NRHPs.

For NRHPs where a complete scanned version of the NRHP text and photos is not available on-line somewhere, the Reference Desk of the National Register of Historic Places will provide a photocopied hard copy, to be sent out by postal mail, upon request.

[edit] State specific sources

  • For Arkansas, it is possible to visit the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program in person and make copies of NRHP nomination forms and other documents.
  • For New York State, the NYS Office of Recreation, Parks and Historic Preservation (NYSORPHP) provides scanned versions of the NRHP text documents, NRHP photos, and NRHP correspondence with owners of properties. The interface requires Javascript on your computer. In the New York's State and National Registers of Historic Places Document Imaging Project search access screen, you have to select "Basic" and enter Basic criteria such as name "Grahamsville" and county "Sullivan" in the search form, and then click over on the right at RESULTS to get the search to run. Not entirely intuitive. It may be then that a javascript icon shows up for a while, and then you typically get a list of the 3 documents available (text, photos, other). Then clicking on one of them, in Firefox at least, you get a new browser window with a wide but short scrollable window showing about one vertical inch of the scanned document. You can then choose to click on the printer icon and print to a PDF file, in order to save it on your computer and to read it more conveniently. (If you do not already have a PDF writer on your computer, you can download a free one at www.pdf995.com). The new browser window shows a hard URL that can be used provide a hard link from a wikipedia article to a specific file, such as Grahamsville Historic District NRHP text for the article Grahamsville Historic District.

[edit] Multiple Property Submission (MPS) documents

PDFs of Multiple Property Submission documents are available from the National Register Information System (from the Main Menu, click on Documentation, then click on Multiple Covers(Historic Context)).

[edit] National Historic Landmark additional information

The National Park Services NHL search site provides access to a webpage summary for every NHL site, including for archeological sites where the NRHP text is not made available. This often including short statement of significance of site based on the NRHP text. The NHL webpage sometimes also includes current and past status information for sites that are threatened.

This NHL webpage summary is usually authoritative on the NHL name for the site, which may differ from the NRHP name for the site shown in the NRIS system. When an NRHP site is also a NHL, the NHL name should usually override the NRHP name in the NRHP infobox of an article on the site. However, awkwardly wrapped names such as "McKinley, James, House" should be unwrapped to "James McKinley House". Alternative names for a site should appear in the beginning text of the article.

This NHL webpage summary is usually authoritative on date of NHL designation, which may be manually added into the NRHP infobox generated by the Elkman infobox generator. However, there exist errors in this webpage system, which may extend to dates. Some of the errors have been reported to the National Park Service and are under review. A working list of some known or apparent errors with names of sites appears here. A similar list of issues with dates of NHL designation appears here.

[edit] Other Sources

The Historic American Buildings Survey and the Historic American Engineering Record provides photos and sometimes substantial text records for many sites that are NRHPs.

Locations of NRHPs in Kentucky in Indiana are pinpointed at http://www.metromapper.org/index-historic.php.

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