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What Makes a Place Historic?
The National Register of Historic Places in Louisiana


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The material in this unit may be used to address the following Social Studies Standards:

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C-1D-M2
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C-1D-M5
C-1D-H1


The Louisiana Division of Historic Preservation uses the criteria for listing properties on the National Register of Historic Places (age, survival of the building's historic appearance and importance) to evaluate whether or not a place is historic. Properties are considered important when they illustrate one or more of the themes which have contributed to the state's history and culture. These themes, and the types of buildings which represent them, include:

  1. Plantation Agriculture (1750 to 1954)

    Property types: plantation houses and outbuildings, sugar mills, cotton gins, quarters houses, and plantation stores. Also, associated factoring houses located in urban areas.

  2. Creole Architecture (1750 to 1900)

    Property types: Creole townhouses, Creole raised plantation houses, Creole cottages, pigeonniers, and above ground cemeteries. These are found in central and southern Louisiana and New Orleans.

  3. Upland South Culture - Scots Irish Heritage (1820 to 1954)

    Property types: single pen houses, double pen houses, dogtrot houses, log barns, and rural churches. These are found in northern and western Louisiana and the Florida parishes.


  4. New Orleans as a National Port (1718 to 1954)

    Property types: warehouses, aids to navigation, industrial buildings and major historic districts.
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  5. Transportation Systems, including the Steamboat Era, the Railroad Era, and the Early Automobile Age (1812 to 1954)

    Property types: light houses, steamboats, steamboat warehouses, steamboat town centers, locks, railroad depots, roundhouses, warehouses and associated structures, railroad hotels, streetcars, automobile dealerships, filling stations, diners, early motels, and gas stations.


  6. Historic Lumber Industry (1880 to 1920)

    Property types: sawmills, lumber company towns, company commissaries, company-built workers' housing, company-built churches, skidders, log loaders. These are found throughout the state.


  7. The Rice Boom - Midwestern Immigration (1880 to 1954)

    Property types: rice mills, rice paddy irrigation pumping stations, mid-western type "Victorian" residences. These are found in the southwestern prairie parishes.


  8. African-American Heritage (Enslavement to Civil Rights)

    Property types: residences, schools, churches, commercial buildings, lodge halls and benevolent societies. These are found throughout the state.

  9. Anglo-American Architecture (Greek Revival, Victorian, Commericial, Early 20th Century) (1800 - 1954)

    Property types: residences, schools, churches, public buildings, commercial buildings, historic districts. These are found throughout the state.

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