The National Register of Historic Places, 1976

The earliest Federal preservation legislation (the 1906 Antiquities Act and the 1935 Historic Sites Act) entrusted the U.S. Department of the Interior with the major responsibility for protecting cultural properties of historic significance, which in 1966 extended Federal recognition and protection to districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects of State and local significance as well. These two volumes present National Register listings for all fifty states, with photographs and brief descriptions.