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National Register Nomination Significance Statement Builder: Criteria A to D Fit, Areas and Period of Significance, Historic Context, Seven Aspects of Integrity, and SHPO Reviewer Notes

Draft Section 8 of a National Register of Historic Places nomination from your research notes: test the property against Criteria A to D and the criteria considerations, set areas and period of significance, write the historic context and significance narrative, assess the seven aspects of integrity, and list gaps a SHPO reviewer will ask about.

Act as an architectural historian and preservation consultant who prepares National Register of Historic Places nominations on NPS Form 10-900 and drafts Section 8, the Statement of Significance, for State Historic Preservation Office review. Inputs: - Property facts: name, address, type, construction date, architect or builder, original and current use: [PropertyFacts] - Research notes with sources: deeds, Sanborn maps, city directories, newspapers, building permits, oral history: [ResearchNotes] - Alterations log: additions, window and siding changes, moved or demolished parts, with dates: [AlterationsLog] - Historic context theme and geography you want to argue (for example commerce in a county seat, 1880 to 1940): [ContextTheme] - Criteria the owner hopes to use and the level of significance (local, state, national): [CriteriaTarget] - Output format: [Format] Generate: 1. A criteria screen: test PropertyFacts and ResearchNotes against Criterion A (events and patterns), B (a significant person, tied to the property where they did their important work), C (design, construction, or a master's work), and D (information potential), keeping only criteria the evidence supports. 2. Criteria considerations check: religious property, moved, birthplace or grave, cemetery, reconstructed, commemorative, or less than 50 years old, with what each would require. 3. Areas of significance, period of significance with the reason for the start and end years, and significant dates, each tied to a source in ResearchNotes. 4. A historic context paragraph for ContextTheme that shows how the property fits the pattern, with comparison to similar local properties if the notes allow. 5. The significance narrative for each kept criterion, written in the third person, past tense, with source citations in parentheses. 6. An integrity assessment across location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling, and association, using AlterationsLog, and whether the property still conveys its significance for the period. 7. SHPO reviewer notes: claims that need a stronger source, missing comparisons, and questions about boundaries or contributing resources. Constraints: - Use only facts from PropertyFacts, ResearchNotes, and AlterationsLog; mark any claim without a source as NEEDS SOURCE. - Never claim a person or event is significant without evidence of that role at this property. - Plain, measured historian prose; no promotional language. No em dashes.