§ 200-8. Criteria for consideration of nomination.

The Board shall, upon such investigation as it deems necessary, make a determination as to whether a nominated property, structure, or area has the integrity of location, design, material, and workmanship to make it worthy of preservation or restoration and meets one or more of the following criteria:

A. 

Its character, interest, or value as part of the development, heritage, or cultural characteristics of the community, county, state, or country;

B. 

Its location as a site of a significant local, county, state or national event;

C. 

Its identification with a person or persons who significantly contributed to the development of the community, county, state, or country;

D. 

Its embodiment of distinguished characteristics of an architectural style or form valuable for the study of a period, type, method of construction, or use of indigenous materials;

E. 

Its identification as the work of a master builder, designer, architect, or landscape architect whose individual work has influenced the development of the neighborhood, community, county, state or country;

F. 

Its embodiment of elements of design, detailing, materials, or craftsmanship that render it architecturally significant;

G. 

Its embodiment of design elements that make it structurally or architecturally innovative or typical of the locale;

H. 

Its unique location or singular physical characteristics that make it an established or familiar visual feature;

I. 

Its character as a particularly fine or unique example of a utilitarian structure, including, but not limited to, farmhouses, gas stations, or other commercial structures, with a high level of historical and architectural integrity or architectural significance; or

J. 

Its suitability for preservation or restoration.