S:\Planning\Planning Division\Planning Div Forms\Applications\Landmark Commission - Designation 2021.docx Rev. 11/2020
III. GALVESTON LANDMARK CRITERIA
Please indicate all criteria which apply to the subject property:
[ ] Character, interest, or value as part of the development, heritage, or cultural characteristics of the City of
Galveston, Galveston County, the State of Texas, or the United States.
[ ] Recognition as a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, National Historic Landmark, or entered into the
National Register of Historic Places.
[ ] Association with events that have made significant contribution to the broad patterns of local, regional, state
or national history.
[ ] Association with the lives of people significant in the city, region, state or national past.
[ ] Distinctive characteristics of a period or method of construction, or architecture; representative of, or a rare
survivor of, the work of a master designer, builder or craftsmen.
[ ] Retention of elements that have yielded, or may be likely to yield, important information about local,
regional, state or national prehistory or history.
[ ] Retention of interim physical alterations that themselves form an important part of the building’s history.
[ ] Representative of an established and familiar visual feature of a neighborhood, community or city.
[ ] Retention of historic integrity, meaning that the property possesses several, and usually most, of the
following aspects of integrity:
a. Location;
b. Design;
c. Setting
d. Materials;
e. Workmanship;
f. Feeling; or
g. Association.
[ ] Likelihood of the continuation of a building’s historical use, or its potential adaptation for new uses without
the need for major intervention that could seriously damage its historic character and integrity.
[ ] Likelihood of preserving a building or structure with significant architectural value, or which is the
surviving structure most importantly associated with a historic person or event, even though the building
or structure is no longer in its original location.
[ ] Opportunity to preserve a reconstructed building that was accurately executed in a suitable environment
and presented in a dignified manner as part of a restoration master plan, and when no other building or
structure with the same association has survived.
[ ] Opportunity to preserve a property that is primarily commemorative in intent but reflects an age, design,
tradition, or symbolic value that has invested it with its own historical significance.
[ ] Opportunity to preserve a property that is of exceptional importance although this significance was
achieved within the last 50 years.
IV. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I certify that [ ] I am the legal owner on record, or [ ] I have secured the property owner’s permission and have
full authority to make this application, and that the above information is correct and complete to the best of my
knowledge and ability.
Please read and initial below:
_____ I understand that all documents submitted with this application are subject to open records requests in accordance
with the Open Records Act / Texas Public Information Act.
_____ I understand that receipt of an application does not constitute application completeness and that staff will review
the application and return incomplete applications.
_____ I understand that if I am not present or represented at the public hearing, the Landmark Commission may defer
or recommend disapproval/denial of the application.
_____ I understand that in addition to the Landmark Commission, the application will also be heard by the Planning
Commission with final decision from City Council.
