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<br /> 9) Constructed landscapes that exemplify principles, trends, or schools of
<br /> thought in landscape architecture, or that represent fine examples of
<br /> the landscape architect's art.
<br /> OBJECTS:
<br /> Definition: The term object is used to distinguish from buildings and structures
<br /> those constructions that are primarily artistic in nature or are relatively small
<br /> in scale and simply constructed. Although it may be, by nature or design,
<br /> movable, an object is associated with a specific setting or environment, such as
<br /> statuary in a designed landscape.
<br /> 1) Objects important to the cultural life of a community and related to a
<br /> specific location, such as fountains, road markers, sculpture, etc.
<br /> 2) Objects important to scientific, historical, or art historical research
<br /> such as statuary, ships, locomotives, etc.
<br /> STRUCTURES:
<br /> Definition: The term structure is used to distinguish from buildings those
<br /> functional constructions made usually for purposes other than creating shelter.
<br /> 1) Industrial and engineering structures including mills, kilns, quarries,
<br /> aqueducts, processing plants, utility or pumping stations, and dams.
<br /> 2) Transportation structures such as railroads, turnpikes, canals, tunnels,
<br /> bridges, roundhouses, lighthouses, and wharves.
<br /> 3) Agricultural structures such as granaries, silos, and corncribs.
<br /> 4) Movable structures associated with important processes of transportation,
<br /> industrial development, social history and military history.
<br /> DISTRICTS:
<br /> Definition: A district possesses a significant concentration, linkage, or
<br /> continuity of sites, buildings, structures, or objects united historically or
<br /> aesthetically by plan or physical development.
<br /> 1) Groups of buildings that physically and spatially comprise a specific
<br /> environment: groups of related buildings that represent the standards
<br /> and tastes of a community or neighborhood during one period of history,
<br /> unrelated structures that represent a progression of various styles and
<br /> functions, or cohesive townscapes or streetscapes that possess an
<br /> identity of place.
<br /> 2) Groups of buildings, structures, and/or sites representative of, or
<br /> associated with a particular social, ethnic, or economic group during
<br /> a particular period.
<br /> 3) Farmlands and related farm structures (silos, barns, granaries, irrigation
<br /> canals) that possess an identity of time and place.
<br /> 4) Groups of structures and buildings that show the industrial or
<br /> technological developments of the community, state, or nation.
<br /> 5) Groups of buildings representing historical development patterns, such
<br /> as commercial and trade centers, county seats, and mill towns.
<br /> 6) Groups of sites, structures, and/or buildings containing archeological
<br /> data and probably representing a historic or prehistoric settlement
<br /> system or pattern of related activities.
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