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Roger Roper's comment about Paul Bunyan's shirt is ridiculous. The National Register and does not have regulations about how it should be painted, it only looks at how the structure meets the criteria.

If, for some reason, the structure is significantly changed so that it no longer meets the criteria or fails to keep it's historic context, then it can be removed from the National Register. Changing the color of the paint would not cause it to lose it's NR status.

The majority of rules and laws applying to historic preservation are enacted at the state or local level. Local codes and landmark boards determine what you can and can't do with a historic structure.

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From the State Advisory Committee on Historic Preservation web page:

The SACHP members can be found at http://www.oregon.gov/OPRD/HCD/NATREG/docs/sachp_docs/sachp_members.pdf

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Unfortunately, the process of getting on the National Register can take a very long time and cost a lot of money, many times costing thousands of dollars and taking multiple years. This is primarily due to the State Historic Preservation Office and their lack of a consistent, objective, transparent evaluation process. Because of this, the Special Assesment program is underutilzed.

The National Park Service bulletins you link to are excellent, but the Oregon SHPO and the State Advisory Comittee for Historic Preservation do not follow those criteria.

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There are very specific criteria for determining whether a building should be listed on the National Register.

My problem with historic preservation in the State of Oregon is the the SHPO and the State Advisory Comittee don't apply these criteria consistently. The recommendation is based more on if the "like" the building or the applicant.

Also, in Hillsboro, a circuit court judge recently ruled that the SHPO rules are irrelevant because they are not consistently applied and there are no repercussians if they are not followed. Can Roger Roper comment on this ruling.

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