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Industrial and Commercial Architecture (2.4)

Registration Requirements (2.4.3)

To qualify for listing in the Register, an industrial or commercial building must have been built between 1793 and 1942 with an industrial or commercial function, and should retain sufficient architectural features that identify its original function and indicate a sense of the activities that surround that function. Since many of these buildings are potentially eligible because of their historical functions, their integrity of design, materials, workmanship, setting, and association will be important. Properties that are individually eligible because of their architecture should be outstanding, intact representatives of their particular type or style. The majority of the city's eligible commercial buildings have already been listed in the National Register as part of ihe Elizabeth City Historic District.