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Types of Pages

  • Building: A resource created principally to shelter any form of human activity, such as house.
  • Site: Location of a significant event, a prehistoric or historic occupation or activity, or a building or structure, whether standing, ruined, or vanished, where the location itself possesses historic, cultural, or archaeological value regardless of the value of any existing structure.
  • Structure: A functional construction made for purposes other than creating shelter, such as a bridge.
  • Object: A construction primarily artistic in nature or relatively small in scale and simply constructed, such as a statue or milepost.

Definitions are from the National Park Service Glossary. See detailed examples and guidelines from the National Park Service.