National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects (all called "properties") worthy of preservation. The list is kept by the National Park Service. The National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (NHPA) created the National Register and the method for adding properties to it. There are more than one million properties on the National Register, 80,000 are listed by themselves. The rest of the properties are smaller "contributing properties" that are part of historic districts. Each year around 30,000 properties are added to the National Register as part of districts or through individual listings. A few are National Historic Landmarks.

National Register Of Historic Places Media

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  Old Slater Mill, a historic district in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, the first property listed in the National Register, on November 13, 1966

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  George B. Hartzog Jr., director of the National Park Service from 1964 to 1972

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  U.S. Secretary of the Interior Cecil Andrus, who removed the National Register from the jurisdiction of the National Park Service in 1978

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  S. R. Crown Hall in Chicago, listed under criteria B and C for its association with architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and its modernist design

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  Round barns in Illinois, a multiple property submission to NRHP that includes 18 structures throughout Illinois

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  A typical plaque found on properties listed in the National Register of Historic Places

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  An alternate series of plaques. Buildings on the National Register are also often listed in local historic societies.

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  A cow barn in Enfield Shaker Village in Enfield, New Hampshire, built 1854, listed with NRHP

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  A National Register of Historic Places plaque at the Robert E. Howard Museum in Cross Plains, Texas

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  The demolition of the Jobbers Canyon Historic District in Downtown Omaha, the largest National Register historic district lost to date

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