Wikipedia:WikiProject National Register of Historic Places/NHLs2008sandbox

CONTEXT COMMENTS
There are 17 NHL Fall 2007 nominations at NHL site, ready for approval at an NHL meeting in July, specific date of meeting not known. Not all 17 will be designated NHLs, probably. Not sure if the Secretary of the Interior will choose to sign off and announce the new NHLs right away, or to wait for some opportune moment.

This is a sandbox to coordinate development of articles on those candidates for NHL status in 2008. Shortcut is "NHLs 2008". It is a sandbox because this is tentative, being set up for an announcement expected any time in July. It is hoped that this list and articles on each one can go live quickly when the announcement is made. It is also hoped this can support a great wikinews article on the announcement, too. Please discuss possibilities for this in the Talk page.

New articles created for most, but forked copies for 6 created (for B Reactor, Camp Uncas, Freedom Tower (Miami), and others indicated, which had pre-existing articles). For those that are forked, the intention is to develop the article further in the sandbox, and to paste the new version into the old version in one big edit. Note, for these forked sandboxes, the sandbox edit history will be lost, except the one big edit, in the paste-ins to those articles. Credit-wise, whoever develops any one of the forked ones should have the option to do the big edit itself, to show authorship most fairly.

Proposed new NHLs
The 17 new NHLs add to the previous total of 2,442 NHLs, which are distributed across all 50 states, the District of Columbia, territories and associated states, and one in a non-associated foreign country. The new NHLs are distributed around just the continental United States, with five in New York, and two each in Montana and Pennsylvania. New York already had 256 NHLs, the most for any state, and more than 10% of the nation's total.

sandboxes, and any current links if available

 * sandbox1 John and Priscilla Alden Family Sites, Duxbury, MA. See John Alden House.
 * sandbox2 B Reactor, Benton County, WA
 * sandbox3 Bryn Athyn Historic District, in Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania
 * sandbox4 Camp Uncas, Hamilton County, NY
 * sandbox5 Aaron Copland House, Cortlandt Manor, NY 41.24028°N, -73.90306°W
 * sandbox6 The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Building, Philadelphia, PA
 * sandbox7 First Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Kingston, Kingston, NY
 * sandbox8 The Forty Acres, Delano, CA
 * sandbox9 Freedom Tower, Miami, FL
 * sandbox10 The Frick Collection and Frick Art Reference Library Building, New York, NY. See Frick Collection
 * sandbox11 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
 * sandbox12 Lyceum-The Circle Historic District, Oxford, MS
 * sandbox13 Shreveport Municipal Memorial Auditorium, Shreveport, LA
 * sandbox14 Skyline Drive, Shenandoah National Park, VA
 * sandbox15 Rosebud Battlefield/Where the Girl Saved Her Brother; map, Big Horn County, MT
 * sandbox16 Woodrow Wilson Boyhood Home, Augusta, GA
 * sandbox17 Wolf Mountains Battlefield/Where Big Crow Walked Back and Forth; map, Rosebud County, MT

Proposed amendments for existing designations:


 * sandbox18 Coltsville Historic District; map (name change, boundary change and additional documentation), Hartford, CT
 * sandbox19 Newport Historic District; map (boundary revision, updated documentation), Newport, RI
 * sandbox20 Skidmore/Old Town Historic District; map (updated documentation), Portland, OR

Additional Program Documents:


 * Federal Effects of NHL Designation
 * National Historic Landmarks Program Federal Regulations