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Historic Properties
A historic survey documents how an individual property relates to
the city’s historic contexts, how it represents a property type, and
how it meets requirements for potential designation as a historic
resource. A historic resource can be a building, site, district, structure
or object.
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the official list
of the nation’s historic places that are worthy of being preserved
National Register of Historic Places and recognized at the national level. The NRHP was created in 1966
plaques, such as this one on Main through the adoption of the National Historic Preservation Act. To be
Street, recognize a building’s eligible for the NRHP, a property’s age, significance and integrity are
designation and its importance to the examined. Properties listed in the National Register are also eligible
community. for federally administered preservation tax credits. Brookings has
several nationally-designated properties and districts:
• Commercial Historic District
» 59 structures, built predominantly between 1884 and 1928
» District established in 1988
• Central Residential Historic District
» 127 primary structures and 93 secondary structures, built
between 1891 and 1941
» Established in 1994 and amended in 2001 with a boundary
increase
502 6th Avenue, a contributing
structure to the Central Residential • University Residential Historic District
Historic District (W&Co, 2020) » 248 houses, 177 secondary buildings, built between 1895
and 1948
» Established in 1999
• Sexauer Seed Historic District
» 10 structures
» Established in 2001
• 23 individually listed historic resources
1. Brookings City Hall, 310 4th Street*
2. Brookings County Courthouse, 4th Street and 6th Avenue
3. W.A. Caldwell House, 804 Sixth Avenue*
4. Carnegie Public Library, 524 4th Street
5. Chicago and Northwestern Railroad Depot, Main Avenue*
400 Main Avenue, a contributing 6. Ivan Cobel House, 727 Main Avenue*
building to the Commercial Historic
District (W&Co, 2020) 7. Coolidge Sylvan Theater, Medary Avenue, SDSU
8. Coughlin Campanile, Medary Avenue, SDSU
9. Experimental Rammed Earth Machine Shed, NW corner
SDSU campus
10. Experimental Rammed Earth Wall, Medary Avenue
11. Fishback House and Boundary Increase, 501 8th Street
12. Graham House, 927 7th Street*
13. E.E. Haugen House, 202 5th Street
14. Lockhart House, 1001 6th Avenue
15. G.A. Mathews House, 423 Eighth Street
16. Nick’s Hamburger Shop, 427 Main Avenue
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