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Project Name: 475-493 St. John St. HRE Pleasanton Historic Resources Evaluation - DRAFT Project No: HP0932.2101.00 February 25, 2021 treanorhl.com 17 10. REGULATORY FRAMEWORK The regulatory background provided below offers an overview of federal and state criteria used to assess historic significance. National Register of Historic Places Criteria National Register Bulletin Number 15, How to Apply the National Register Criteria for Evaluation, describes the Criteria for Evaluation as being composed of two factors. First, the property must be “associated with an important historic context.”29 The National Register identifies four possible context types, of which at least one must be applicable at the national, state, or local level. As listed under Section 8, “Statement of Significance,” of the NRHP Registration Form, these are: A. Property is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history. B. Property is associated with the lives of persons significant in our past. C. Property embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction or represents the work of a master, or possesses high artistic values, or represents a significant and distinguishable entity whose components lack individual distinction. D. Property has yielded, or is likely to yield, information important to prehistory or history.30 Second, for a property to qualify under the National Register’s Criteria for Evaluation, it must also retain “historic integrity of those features necessary to convey its significance.”31 While a property’s significance relates to its role within a specific historic context, its integrity refers to “a property’s physical features and how they relate to its significance.”32 To determine if a property retains the physical characteristics corresponding to its historic context, the National Register has identified seven aspects of integrity: Location is the place where the historic property was constructed or the place where the historic event occurred... Design is the combination of elements that create the form, plan, space, structure, and style of a property... Setting is the physical environment of a historic property... Materials are the physical elements that were combined or deposited during a particular period of time and in a particular pattern or configuration to form a historic property... Workmanship is the physical evidence of the crafts of a particular culture or people during any given period in history or prehistory... Feeling is a property’s expression of the aesthetic or historic sense of a particular period of time... Association is the direct link between an important historic event or person and a historic property.33 29 National Park Service, How to Apply the National Register Criteria for Evaluation, National Register Bulletin 15 (Washington, DC: United States Department of the Interior, 1997), 3. 30 National Park Service, How to Complete the National Register Registration Form, National Register Bulletin 16A (Washington, DC: United States Department of the Interior, 1997), 75. 31 National Park Service, National Register Bulletin 15, 3. 32 Ibid., 44. 33 Ibid., 44-45.