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West Downtown Austin Historic District
Texas, Reference number: 100010021
Area of Significance: Architecture, Community Planning and Development
Period of Significance: 1856-1956
This nomination describes the 82-acre, 200+ resource West Downtown Austin Historic District in just over 3 pages. It makes good use of subheadings to organize the information and a table to provide a resource inventory that includes each resource's address, date of construction, type, style and architect, and contributing/non-contributing status.
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Holman's Barber Shop
South Carolina, Reference number: 100006884
Area of significance: Social History, Ethnic Heritage: Black
Period of Significance: 1945-1975
Holman’s Barber Shop is significant for its historic role as a Black barber shop within the African American community, and for its association with Columbia’s segregation history. The Section 7 narrative summary paragraph succinctly describes the property’s physical form, location, and integrity. The narrative description starts by reviewing the documentary record to establish the building’s date of construction. The exterior is then described, moving around the building north to east to south to west, and referencing the photos for each façade. The interior is described next, with modifications over the decades frankly acknowledged. Finally, the property’s integrity is assessed; although the narrative does not walk the reader through the seven aspects of integrity, it successfully compares historic images and local recollections to the current condition of the building to demonstrate its integrity.
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Virginia, Reference number: 13000807
Area of Significance: Community Planning and Development, Architecture
Period of Significance: 1946-1971
Hollin Hills Historic District is a Modern Movement neighborhood of innovative, moderately priced houses set within a 326-acre wooded landscape. There are 476 contributing and 158 non-contributing resources. The Section 7 summary description is a single, albeit page-long, paragraph. The narrative description begins by describing the landscape, then moves to a discussion of Hollin Hills’ architect Charles Goodwin’s style to provide a context for the resource descriptions that follow. Next, the homes are generally characterized; then common key features are identified; and finally, the standardized “units” are described. The resources inventory appended to the narrative includes the resources’ address, description, style, construction date, and contributing/non-contributing status.
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Last updated: March 29, 2024