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Space Shuttle Program Historic Properties 2-4
NASA Kennedy Space Center
2.2.3 Integrity
To be considered eligible for listing in the NRHP, a property must retain enough integrity
to convey its historical significance. The NRHP recognizes seven aspects or qualities
that, in various combinations, define integrity: location, setting, materials, design,
workmanship, feeling, and association. These are defined as follows (NPS 1995: 44-45):
• Location is the place where the historic property was constructed or the place
where the historic event occurred.
• Design is the combination of elements that create the form, plan, space,
structure, and style of a property.
• Setting is the physical environment of a historic property.
• Materials are the physical elements that were combined or deposited during a
particular period of time and in a particular pattern or configuration to form
a historic property.
• Workmanship is the physical evidence of the crafts of a particular culture or
people during any given period in history or prehistory.
• Feeling is a property’s expression of the aesthetic or historic sense of a
particular period of time.
• Association is the direct link between an important historic event or person
and a historic property.
However, many original NASA Apollo-era facilities, for example, have undergone major
modification and are in active use supporting the Space Shuttle Program. As a general
rule, in the case of highly technical and scientific facilities, “there should be continuity in
function, and thus, in integrity of design and materials, and there may always be integrity
of association” (ACHP 1991:33).
2.3 National Register Historic Districts
In addition to the identification of assets which individually meet the criteria of eligibility
for listing in the NRHP, all surveyed assets were evaluated for their potential to
contribute to an existing or potential historic district.
In accordance with the Guidelines for Completing National Register of Historic Places
Forms: How to Complete the National Register Registration Form (NR Bulletin 16A), “a
district possesses a significant concentration, linkage, or continuity of sites, buildings,
structures or objects united historically or aesthetically by plan or physical development.”
All resources within a district are either contributing or noncontributing. A contributing
building, structure, or object adds to the historic associations or historic engineering or
architectural qualities for which the property is significant because either it was present
during the period of significance, relates to the documented significance of the property,
and possesses historic integrity or is capable of yielding important information about the
period, or it independently meets the NRHP criteria. A noncontributing resource does not
October 2007
Archaeological Consultants, Inc.