General American Life Building

National Register Individual Sites more information about St. Louis' National Register properties can be found on our history webpage: www.stlouishistory.org

The National Register of Historic Places

Administered by the National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, the National Register of Historic Places is a nation-wide list of buildings, sites, structures and objects with local, regional, state or national significance under specific criteria (see below). The National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 created the Register to identify, honor, and protect our historic and archeological resources.

The Criteria for nominating National Register sites:

The National Register has identified four Criteria under which the significance of a resource may be interpreted. A National Register property must represent an important facet of American history, architecture, archeology, engineering, or culture, and possess integrity of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling, and association, and:

Criterion A
associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history; or

Criterion B
are associated with the lives of persons significant in our past; or

Criterion C
embody the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction, or that represent the work of a master, or that possess high artistic values, or that represent a significant and distinguishable entity whose components may lack individual distinction; or

Criterion D
have yielded, or may be likely to yield, information important in prehistory or history.