44.36 State register of historic places.

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(1)State register. The state historical society shall maintain, publish and disseminate the state register of historic places.

(2)Criteria of significance.

(a)The state register of historic places shall include districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects which are significant in national, state or local history, architecture, archaeology, engineering and culture. The quality of significance is present in districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects that possess integrity of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling and association and that satisfy any of the following conditions:

1. Association with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of history.

2. Association with the lives of persons significant in the past.

3. Embodiment of 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.

4. Representation of a significant and distinguishable entity whose components may lack individual distinction.

5. Yielding, or likely to yield, information important in prehistory or history.

(b)No cemetery, birthplace or grave of a historical figure, property owned by a religious institution or used for religious purposes, reconstructed historic building, property primarily commemorative in nature or property that has achieved significance within the past 50 years may be considered eligible for the state register of historic places unless it is an integral part of a district that meets the criteria of significance under par.

(a)or unless it falls within at least one of the following categories:

1. A religious property deriving primary significance from architectural or artistic distinction or historical importance.

2. A birthplace or grave of a historical figure of outstanding importance if there is no appropriate site or building directly associated with his or her productive life in the vicinity of that birthplace or grave.

3. A cemetery which derives its primary significance from the grave of a person of transcendent importance, age, distinctive design features or association with historic events.