N.M. Code R. § 4.10.18.11 - STANDARDS, SIGNIFICANCE AND INTEGRITY CRITERIA FOR REGISTRATION
A.
Registration standards.
(1)
National register bulletins. The CPRC uses the national register
bulletin series prepared by the national park service as guidance in applying
the criteria for state registration. Contact the HPD for assistance.
(2)
General standards. Property
descriptions and statements of significance on the nomination form must be
accurate and prepared in accordance with standards generally accepted by
academic historians, architectural historians, archaeologists, ethnologists and
others, as appropriate, to the property being nominated.
(3)
Boundaries. Boundaries for a
district, site, structure, building, place or object shall encompass but shall
not exceed the full extent of the significant resources or land area making up
the property. The area should be large enough to include all historic features
of the property and shall not include buffer zones or acreage not directly
contributing to the significance of the property. Districts may include
noncontributing resources, such as altered buildings or buildings constructed
before or after the period of significance. In situations where historically
associated resources were geographically separated from each other during the
period of significance or are separated by intervening development and are now
separated by large areas lacking eligible resources, a discontiguous district
may be defined. The following features may be used to mark the boundaries as
they reflect the resources: legally recorded boundary lines; natural
topographic features such as ridges, valleys, rivers and forests; man-made
features such as fences and stone walls, streets and roads; or areas of new
construction or construction outside the period of significance.
B.
Significance. The CPRC and SHPO shall use the following criteria
when reviewing nominations and making decisions to list a property in the state
register or determine the state-register eligibility of a property. To be
considered for registration, at least one of the following criteria for
evaluation and considerations must be met.
(1)
Criteria for evaluation. The quality of significance in the
history, architecture, archaeology, science, engineering and culture is present
in structures, buildings, sites, places, districts or objects that possess
integrity of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling and
association; and
(a) that are associated with
events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our
history; or
(b) that are associated
with the lives of persons significant in our past; or
(c) that embody the distinctive
characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction, or that represent
the work of a master, or that possess high artistic values, or that represent a
significant and distinguishable entity whose components may lack individual
distinction; or
(d) that have
yielded, or may be likely to yield, information important in prehistory or
history.
(2)
Criteria considerations. Ordinarily cemeteries, birthplaces or
graves of historical figures, properties owned by religious institutions or
used for religious purposes, structures that have been moved from their
original locations, reconstructed historic buildings, properties primarily
commemorative in nature, and properties that have achieved significance within
the past 50 years shall not be considered eligible for the state register. Such
properties may qualify if they are integral parts of districts that do meet the
criteria or if they fall within the following categories:
(a) a religious property deriving primary
significance from architectural or artistic distinction or historical
importance; or
(b) a building or
structure removed from its original location but which is significant primarily
for architectural value, or which is the surviving structure most importantly
associated with a historic person or event; or
(c) the birthplace or grave of a historical
figure of outstanding importance if there is no appropriate site or building
directly associated with his productive life; or
(d) a cemetery which derives its primary
significance from graves of persons of transcendent importance, from age, from
distinctive design features, or from association with historic events;
or
(e) a reconstructed building
when accurately executed in a suitable environment and presented in a dignified
manner as part of a restoration master plan, and when no other building or
structure with the same association has survived; or
(f) a property primarily commemorative in
intent if design, age, tradition, or symbolic value has invested it with its
own exceptional significance; or
(g) a property achieving significance within
the past 50 years if it is of exceptional importance.
(3)
Level of significance. A
property listed in the state register may be of national, state or local
significance. The CPRC shall use the following criteria in determining the
level of significance appropriate to the property:
(a) a property of national significance
offers an understanding of the history of the nation by illustrating the
nationwide impact of events or persons associated with the property, its type
or style or its information; or
(b)
a property of statewide significance offers an important aspect of the history
of the state as a whole; or
(c) a
property of local significance represents an important aspect of the history of
a county, city, town, cultural area or region or any portions
thereof.
C.
Integrity. In addition to significance, a property must possess
integrity. A property has integrity if it retains the identity for which it is
significant. To determine whether a property retains integrity, the CPRC shall
consider the seven aspects set out below and shall evaluate the property
against those aspects that are most critical to a property's significance.
(1) Location is the place where the property
was constructed or the place where the event or activity occurred. For the site
of historic or cultural events, a property has integrity of location when the
location itself, complemented by the setting, may be used to visualize or
recall the event.
(2) Design is 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 is the
physical environment of the 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 cultural and may include topographic
features, vegetation and relationships of a building to other features and open
space.
(4) Materials include the
physical elements that were combined or deposited during a particular period of
time and in a particular pattern or configuration to form the cultural
property. The integrity of materials determines whether or not an authentic
property still exists.
(5)
Workmanship is 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 is the property's expression of
the aesthetic or historic sense of a particular period of time. Although
intangible, feeling depends upon the presence of physical characteristics to
convey the historic qualities that evoke feeling. Because it is dependent upon
perception of each individual, integrity of feeling alone will never be
sufficient to support designation.
(7) Association is the direct link between an
important historic event or person and the cultural 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.
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