NRHP
Regulatory
Architectural Styles
History
General Vocabulary
100

The National Register of Historic Places was authorized by this Congressional legislation.

What is the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966?

100

This government division/agency is responsible for carrying out the mandates of the Congressional legislation.

What is the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO)?

100

This style is characterized by wide front porches, low-pitched roofs with overhanging eaves with exposed rafter tails, and a prominent use of natural materials.

What is Craftsman/Bungalow?

100

This was the year that Independence Hall was saved and marked the one of the earliest preservation efforts in the US.

What is 1816?

100

This is a piece of legislation enacted by a municipal authority.

What is an Ordinance?

200

Property types that can be listed to the NRHP are buildings, districts, structures, and these other 2 property types.

What are sites and objects?

200

This is the specific component of the Congressional legislation that requires all projects with a Federal nexus (funding, licensing, and permitting) to be reviewed and commented on by interested stakeholders.

What is Section 106 (Review and Compliance)?

200

Characterized by geometric forms, luxury materials, vibrant colors, and symmetry and repetitions, this is an influential style of visual art, architecture, and design that flourished globally in the 1920s and 1930s.

What is Art Deco?

200

This building's demolition galvanized the modern historic preservation movement.   For 100 bonus points, name the building that now stands at that location.

What is Pennsylvania "Penn" Station in New York City?

What is Madison Square Garden?

200

This is arrangement, type, and number of openings in a building.

What is Fenestration?

300

A property can be listed under 1 or more of how many Criterion. 

For 25 bonus points each, identify them.

What is 4? 

What is A=Events, B=Persons, C=Architecture/Engineering, and D=Archeology?

300

While there are many regulatory statues that concern historic preservation from various entities, this is the only entity that has any legal say in what a private property owner does with their historic property.

The local municipality where the property resides.

300

This pioneering architect, artist, author, and educator helped develop the American School of Architecture and organic architecture. For 100 bonus points, name his famous professor, employer, and colleague known for his iconoclastic design philosophy.

Who is Herb Greene?

Who is Bruce Goff?

300

This person's controversial restoration philosophy was based on the principle that important monuments should be rebuilt as they "should have been", not necessarily how they were originally.

Who is Viollet-le-Duc?

300

This a grotesque sculpture of an animal, human, or gargoyle that sticks out in a horizontal direction from a building. For 100 bonus points, name the building on campus that prominently displays these sculptures.

What is an Antic?

What is the Bizzell Memorial Library?

400

This is the office of the National Park Service that officially lists eligible properties to the NRHP.

Who is the Keeper of the National Register of Historic Places?

400

These are the criteria used to determine if a project has been done in a historically sensitive manner, for tax credit purposes. For 100 bonus points, how many are there?

What are the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation?

What is 10?

400

This architectural style is characterized by thick stucco walls, low-pitched red tile roofs, arches, courtyards and patios, and wrought iron details.

What is Spanish Colonial (Revival)?

400

In circa 1980, this program from the National Trust for Historic Preservation is established with a goal of revitalization of America's rural and urban commercial centers.

What is the National Main Street Center or Main Street America Program?

400

This is an ornament composed of four rounded spaces divided by a pointed projection formed by two intersecting arcs and radiating from a common center.

What is a Quatrefoil?

500

Name the 7 aspects of integrity as defined by the NRHP.

What are Location, Design, Setting, Materials, Workmanship, Feeling, and Association?

500

This is the Federal agency that provides the regulations (36 CFR Part 800) detailing the steps and timeframes for projects with a Federal nexus.

What is the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP)?

500

This style is used to refer to structures that reflect the availability of local materials, idioms, prevailing environmental conditions, and ethnic preferences.

What is Vernacular Architecture?

500

In 1889, Congress designated this historic property, which was abandoned in the mid-1400s, as the nation's first national monument received the first federal funding to protect it.

What is the Casa Grande ruin in Arizona?

500

The HABS, HAER, CRGIS, and HALS programs are under the auspices of the National Park Service. Tell us what HAER stands for.

What is the Historic American Engineering Record?