NRHP Historic Districts - Contributing Buildings - A Waymarking.com Category

"a geographically definable area, urban or rural, possessing a significant concentration, linkage, or continuity of sites, buildings, structures, or objects united by past events or aesthetically by plan or physical development. A district may also comprise individual elements separated geographically but linked by association or history."

To waymark a structure, it must be designated as a 'Contributing structure or building' to a historic district listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Waymarks should give a sense of the Historic District they are contributing to. Ideally, your contributing building should be specifically mentioned in the NRHP narrative. Many states have their NRHP narratives accessible via the internet. Some internet resources are posted in the category forums.

The National Park Service research portion of its website is the official web source to obtain PDF datasheets of contributing buildings/structures of Historic Districts from the NRHP Nomination Forms and can be accessed via the National Register of Historic Places NPGallery Search Database. *Note* Not all Historic Districts have been digitized into PDF documents accessible on the NPS website and a few states aren't part of the database inventory but hopefully will be in the near future.

You may also enjoy browsing an interactive map containing thousands of individual NRHP listings and Historic Districts throughout the United States (zoom in to a town or city and click on a yellow dot which will pop up a window that contains info regarding the NRHP building along with any links to the PDF datasheets).

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