The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the official list of the Nation’s historic places worthy of preservation. The National Park Service (NPS) created and manages the NRHP program in partnership with the Idaho State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO), and the Idaho Historic Sites Review Board (HSRB).
A property becomes “listed” in the National Register after the HSRB and the Keeper of the National Register of Historic Places in Washington, D.C. approve a nomination form documenting its historic significance.
The SHPO helps applicants through the process, evaluates prospective properties for historic significance and program eligibility, identifies character defining features, and reviews each nomination to be sure it meets the technical and substantive requirements for NRHP listing.
Listing in the NRHP does:
· Identify historic buildings, structures, or sites that are of local, state, or national importance
· Provide honorific designation for a property
· Increase public awareness and appreciation for historic properties
· Provide archival and research documentation for historic properties
· Allow for tax incentives for the rehabilitation of qualifying historic, income-producing properties
· Provide a certain degree of protection for historic properties affected by federal action (licenses, permits, funding, or lands)
· Help qualify a property for certain grant programs
Listing in the NRHP does not:
· Restrict the rights of private property owners to change or dispose of their property in any way – up to and including demolition
· Automatically provide grants or low interest loans for a property
· Require that historic properties be rehabilitated once listed/or restore historic properties if damaged
· Require property owners to open their property for public visitation at any time
· Guarantee the preservation of historic properties
· Help qualify a property for certain grant programs
· Restrict the rights of private property owners to change or dispose of their property in any way – up to and including demolition
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