Sample Nominations - State Level of Significance

Dayton’s Department Store, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Photograph by Morgan Scheff

Dayton’s Department Store

Minnesota, Reference number: 100004147
Area of Significance: Commerce
Period of Significance: 1903-1967

Dayton’s Department Store is the type of palatial department store once found in many large cities. In demonstrating state significance, the nomination documents how Dayton’s, whose statewide operations were conducted from this location, had a “profound impact on Minnesota’s retail landscape” by revolutionizing retail discount shopping (Dayton Registration Form, p. 20).
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Green River Drift Location Map, Sublette County, Wyoming

Courtesy of Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office

Green River Drift

Wyoming, Reference number: 120001224
Area of Significance: Agriculture, Politics/Government
Period of Significance: 1896-present

The 58-mile Drift “has functioned as the essential connector between seasonal grazing lands for cattle ranches in the Upper Green River Valley” of Sublette County, Wyoming (Drift Registration Form, p. 3). As documented in the nomination, moving cattle along the Drift has been a way of life in this area for well over one hundred years, becoming a part of the regional culture.
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Pride’s Sampson post, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin

Photograph by Tamara Thomsen

Pride Shipwreck

Wisconsin, Reference number: 100010860
Area of Significance: Information Potential
Period of Significance: 1866-1898

A property does not need to be of a type found throughout a state for it to be significant at the state level; rather, it is the reach of the impact of that property that may support statewide significance (Criteria Bulletin, p. 9). The Pride, partially embedded in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, is significant at the state level for its role in the Great Lakes lumber and bulk cargo trades.
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Winsted Water Works, Winchester, Connecticut

Photograph by Gretchen Pineo and John Daly, courtesy of Connecticut State Historic Preservation Office

Winsted Water Works

Connecticut, Reference number: 100005797
Areas of Significance: Community Planning & Development, Engineering
Period of Significance: 1893-1930

The state level of significance for this property is not based on its impact, but rather as a surviving property type once common in the state. This municipal water works system survives as eight contributing structures and two contributing sites. As stated in the nomination, it was important to industrial development of Winchester and Barkhamsted in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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