DRAFT
How to start . . . . after completing a nomination form the BHPA reviews it. If the nomination is approved . . . . notifies property owners of a nomination . . . .allowing time for owners to accept or reject the nomination. If the property owner rejects the nomination the process stops.
Certificates are presented to the property owners and a site marker is prepared for attachment to the site at a later time.
After a nomination is approved, the information about the site is added to all appropriate county booklets, maps and brochures that discuss the historical sites of this county.
Nomination Information
Describe the site
What is the site's history? Has it been nominated or been named to other lists?
How well known is the site? Who goes there (tourists, school children)? Is it open to the public?
Why is this site important? What preservation issues does it exemplify (sprawl, inner city decline, etc.)? Please consider the following -- how is the site unique/ Why should anyone care that it is endangered?
Describe the threat to the site (is it due to natural disaster, poor maintenance, lack of funds, etc.)?
How significant is the threat (is the building about to fall, is the ship about to sink)?
Who are the major players (are "friends of" group, government agencies, private citizens involved)?
Besides meeting these criteria, supporting documentation (such as photographs, historic summaries, oral histories, and provenance) should be researched, formalized and presented to the ???????????? and be accessible to the public through the publications of the Blair Historic Preservation Alliances