national register nomination for boulevard park historic

survey forms supplemented the existing collection of materials. The district is part of an
existing city historic preservation district, so the project included review of previous
context statements and assessment forms.
In February 2009, this writer obtained full-time employment as a historian by the
California Office of Historic Preservation’s Registration Unit. This job became the final
semester of internship. As the unit responsible for reviewing and preparing National
Register nominations for review by the State Historical Resources Commission and
subsequent submission to the Keeper of the National Register, the Registration Unit was
the ideal place to learn how to generate National Register nominations. Although the
Registration Unit does not normally generate its own nominations, the Boulevard Park
district became an experiment in office-generated nominations.
Photographic surveys of the district in the winter of 2009 captured images of
buildings before spring foliage obscured many of the houses. These surveys included all
buildings and contributing features in the district. A National Register district nomination
does not require photographs of each property, but complete photos of all buildings
allowed easier architectural description and assessment of integrity for each property.
Photographs of significant contributors, common property types, and landscape setting
are provided with the nomination (see Appendix A.) During these surveys, the basic
architectural details of each building were recorded for later use in architectural
description.
During the spring and summer of 2009, processing and reviewing National
Register nominations on the job provided significant insight into their process and
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