The National Park Service provides guidance on how to document, evaluate, and nominate historically significant properties to the National Register of Historic Places. This information is available in PDF format and can be accessed from the links below.
The National Register of Historic Places
Answers to Questions for Owners of Historic Properties
How to Apply the National Register Criteria for Evaluation
How to Complete the National Register Registration Form
How to Complete the National Register Multiple Property Documentation Form
Researching a Historic Property
How to Prepare National Historic Landmark Nominations
Guidelines for Evaluating and Documenting Historic Aviation Properties
Guidelines for Identifying, Evaluating, and Registering America’s Historic Battlefields
Guidelines for Evaluating and Registering Cemeteries and Burial Places
How to Evaluate and Nominate Designed Historic Landscapes
Guidelines for Identifying, Evaluating and Registering Historic Mining Properties
How to Apply the National Register Criteria to Post Offices
Guidelines for Evaluating and Documenting Rural Historic Landscapes
Guidelines for Evaluating and Nominating Properties Associated with Significant Persons
Guidelines for Evaluating and Documenting Traditional Cultural Properties
Nominating Historic Vessels and Shipwrecks to the National Register of Historic Places
Defining Boundaries for National Register Properties
How to Improve the Quality of Photographs for National Register Nomination Bulletin
National Register of Historic Places and National Historic Landmarks Survey Photo Policy