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23-600: Prospect Hill Historic District may refer to: Prospect Hill Historic District (New Haven, Connecticut) , listed on the NRHP in New Haven County, Connecticut Prospect Hill Historic District (Willimantic, Connecticut) , listed on the NRHP in Windham County, Connecticut Prospect Hill Historic District (Bloomington, Indiana) Prospect Hill Historic District (Cincinnati, Ohio) ,

46-425: A historic district . It can be any property, structure or object that adds to the historic integrity or architectural qualities that make the historic district, either local or federal, significant. Definitions vary but, in general, they maintain the same characteristics. Another key aspect of a contributing property is historic integrity. Significant alterations to a property can sever its physical connections with

69-733: A historic district also known as Prospect Hill , listed on the NRHP in Hamilton County, Ohio Prospect Hill (Arlington, Virginia) , a former historic mansion whose site is a local historic district Prospect Hill Historic District (Janesville, Wisconsin) , listed on the NRHP in Rock County, Wisconsin Prospect Hill Historic District (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) , listed on the NRHP in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin Prospect Hill Historic District (Buffalo, New York) , listed on

92-609: A historic home can damage its historic integrity and render it non-contributing. In some cases, damage to the historic integrity of a structure is reversible, while other times the historic nature of a building has been so "severely compromised" as to be irreversible. For example, in the East Grove Street District in Bloomington, Illinois , contributing properties include the Queen Anne -style George H. Cox House (1886) and

115-527: Is classified as one of four property types : building, object, structure, or site. The line between contributing and non-contributing can be fuzzy. In particular, American historic districts nominated to the National Register of Historic Places before 1980 have few records of the non-contributing structures. State Historic Preservation Offices conduct surveys to determine the historical character of structures in historic districts. Districts nominated to

138-606: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Prospect Hill Historic District (New Haven, Connecticut) The Prospect Hill Historic District is an irregularly-shaped 185-acre (75 ha) historic district in New Haven, Connecticut . The district encompasses most of the residential portion of the Prospect Hill neighborhood. The district includes two U.S. National Historic Landmark properties which are separately listed on

161-628: The Georgetown neighborhood in Washington, D.C. a historic district and protected. By 1965, 51 American communities had adopted preservation ordinances. In 1976 the National Historic Preservation Act was passed by Congress. By 1998, more than 2,300 U.S. towns, cities and villages had enacted historic preservation ordinances. Contributing properties are defined through historic district or historic preservation zoning laws, usually at

184-728: The Louisiana Constitution led to the 1937 creation of the Vieux Carre Commission, which was charged with protecting and preserving the French Quarter in the city of New Orleans . The city passed a local ordinance that set standards to regulate changes within the quarter. Other sources, such as the Columbia Law Review in 1963, indicate differing dates for the preservation ordinances in both Charleston and New Orleans. The Columbia Law Review gave dates of 1925 for

207-522: The National Park Service , the first instance of law dealing with contributing properties in local historic districts was enacted in 1931 by the city of Charleston, South Carolina ; it designated the " Old and Historic District ." The ordinance declared that buildings in the district could not have changes made to architectural features that were visible from the street. By the mid-1930s, other U.S. cities followed Charleston's lead. An amendment to

230-655: The Whitney Avenue Historic District . It excludes the entire area of the Hillhouse Avenue Historic District , an area that was originally residential, and now is mostly Yale University-owned, and which included within the official neighborhood planning maps for Prospect Hill. The historic district also excludes the Edgerton historic district, the New Haven portion of which has been included in

253-565: The Yale Divinity School . The district extends to the south to include historic houses that are now Yale offices along the west side of Prospect Street south of Hillside Place. Contributing buildings In the law regulating historic districts in the United States , a contributing property or contributing resource is any building, object, or structure which adds to the historical integrity or architectural qualities that make

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276-632: The NRHP in Buffalo, New York See also [ edit ] Prospect Hill (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Prospect Hill Historic District . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Prospect_Hill_Historic_District&oldid=917236813 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

299-586: The National Register of Historic Places after 1980 usually list those structures considered non-contributing. As a general rule, a contributing property helps make a historic district historic. A well-preserved 19th-century mansion will generally contribute to a district, while a modern gas station generally will not. Historic buildings identified as contributing properties can become non-contributing properties within historic districts if major alterations have taken place. Sometimes, an act as simple as re- siding

322-608: The National Register: the Othniel C. Marsh House and the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station . The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. In 1979, it included 238 buildings deemed to contribute to the historic character of the area . The district is significant primarily for its architecture. It includes major collections of Queen Anne style architecture in

345-465: The New Orleans laws and 1924 for Charleston. The same publication claimed that these two cities were the only cities with historic district zoning until Alexandria, Virginia adopted an ordinance in 1946. The National Park Service appears to refute this. In 1939, the city of San Antonio, Texas , enacted an ordinance to protect the area of La Villita, the original Mexican village marketplace. In 1941

368-600: The United States , Shingle Style architecture , Colonial Revival architecture , and Tudor Revival architecture . Numerous other styles are also represented. Architects and firms represented include Boston's Peabody and Stearns and R. Clipston Sturgis ; New York's Grosvenor Atterbury , Donn Barber , J.C. Cady & Co. , George S. Chappell , Delano & Aldrich , Ewing & Chappell, James Gamble Rogers , Rossiter & Muller , and Heathcote Woolsey; Philadelphia's Mantle Fielding ; Connecticut's Henry Austin and numerous others. Selected contributing properties in

391-530: The authority of local design controls on buildings within historic districts was being challenged in court. In City of New Orleans vs Pergament (198 La. 852, 5 So. 2d 129 (1941)), Louisiana state appellate courts ruled that the design and demolition controls were valid within defined historic districts. Beginning in the mid-1950s, controls that once applied only to buildings within historic districts were extended to individual landmark structures. The United States Congress adopted legislation in 1950 that declared

414-537: The district are: Non-contributing properties include: In 2002, application was made for a building that was located at 285 Prospect Street to be moved to 380 Edwards Street, while retaining its contributing building status. It is a building designed by R. Clipston Sturgis . It was approved. The historic district includes most of New Haven's Prospect Hill neighborhood. The district borders are drawn irregularly to exclude modern construction, and also to exclude properties fronting Whitney Avenue, which are included in

437-442: The historic district significant. Government agencies, at the state, national, and local level in the United States, have differing definitions of what constitutes a contributing property but there are common characteristics. Local laws often regulate the changes that can be made to contributing structures within designated historic districts. The first local ordinances dealing with the alteration of buildings within historic districts

460-437: The local level. Zoning ordinances pertaining to historic districts are designed to maintain a district's historic character by controlling demolition and alteration to existing properties. In historic preservation law, a contributing property is any building, structure, object or site within the boundaries of the district that contributes to its historic associations, historic architectural qualities or archaeological qualities of

483-595: The official neighborhood planning maps for Prospect Hill. Among other exclusions, the district excludes Yale University's relatively modern buildings on Science Hill. It excludes several Yale graduate student housing facilities (the Whitehall Apartment Complex, the Mansfield Apartments, and the Esplanade Apartments), while at 352 Canner Street, the district includes four dormitory buildings of

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506-473: The past, lowering its historic integrity. Contributing properties are integral parts of the historic context and character of a historic district. A property listed as a contributing member of a historic district meets National Register criteria and qualifies for all benefits afforded a property or site listed individually on the National Register of Historic Places. Each property within a National Register historic district — contributing or non-contributing —

529-676: Was enacted in Charleston, South Carolina in 1931. Properties within a historic district fall into one of two types of property: contributing and non-contributing. A contributing property, such as a 19th-century mansion, helps make a historic district historic, while a non-contributing property, such as a modern medical clinic, does not. The contributing properties are key to a historic district's historic associations, historic architectural qualities, or archaeological qualities. A property can change from contributing to non-contributing and vice-versa if significant alterations take place. According to

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