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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 18 Since integrity is based on a property’s significance within a specific historic context, an evaluation of a property’s integrity can only occur after historic significance has been established.34 California Register of Historical Resources Criteria The California Office of Historic Preservation’s Technical Assistance Series #6, California Register and National Register: A Comparison, outlines the differences between the federal and state processes. The criteria to be used when establishing the significance of a property for listing on the California Register of Historical Resources (CRHR) are very similar, with emphasis on local and state significance. They are: 1. It is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of local or regional history, or the cultural heritage of California or the United States; or 2. It is associated with the lives of persons important to local, California, or national history; or 3. It 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 4. It has yielded, or is likely to yield, information important to prehistory or history of the local area, California, or the nation.35 The CRHR requires the establishment of historic significance before integrity is considered. California’s integrity threshold is slightly lower than the federal level. As a result, some resources that are historically significant but do not meet National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) integrity standards may be eligible for listing on the CRHR.36 California’s list of special considerations is shorter and more lenient than the NRHP. It includes some allowances for moved buildings, structures, or objects, as well as lower requirements for proving the significance of resources that are less than 50 years old and a more elaborate discussion of the eligibility of reconstructed buildings.37 In addition to separate evaluations for eligibility for the CRHR, the state automatically lists on the CRHR resources that are listed or determined eligible for the NRHP through a complete evaluation process.38 Integrity Second, for a property to qualify under the CRHR’s Criteria for Evaluation, it must also retain “historic integrity of those features necessary to convey its significance.”39 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.”40 To determine if a property retains the physical characteristics corresponding to its historic 34 Ibid., 45. 35 California Office of Historic Preservation, California Register and National Register: A Comparison, Technical Assistance Series 6, (Sacramento, 2001), 1. 36 California Register and National Register: A Comparison. 37 California Register and National Register: A Comparison, 2. 38 All State Historical Landmarks from number 770 onward are also automatically listed on the California Register. California Office of Historic Preservation, California Register of Historical Resources: The Listing Process, Technical Assistance Series 5 (Sacramento, n.d.), 1. 39 United States Department of the Interior, How to Apply the National Register Criteria for Evaluation, National Register Bulletin, No. 15 (Washington, D.C., 1997), 3. 40 How to Apply the National Register Criteria for Evaluation, 44.