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These nominations for buildings less than fifty years old were submitted to the National Register for Historic Places of the Department of the Interior or individual state historic preservation offices. These public documents can be used as models for your own nominations. See also our Listing of Recent Past Resources by City/State with links to city-wide and regional surveys completed privately or by the government detailing significant post-World War II buildings and structures. As of January 2003, 2,332 of the nearly 76,000 listings in the National Register of Historic Places have been nominated under Criteria Consideration G, which states that a property achieving significance within the past fifty years is eligible if it is of exceptional importance. Exceptional importance does not require that the property be of national significance but is a measure of a property's importance within the appropriate historic context, whether the scale of that context is local, state, or national. The necessary perspective to determine that the property is exceptionally important can be provided by scholarly research and evaluation, and must consider both the historic context and the specific property's role in that context. RPPN Exclusive: List of 2,307 properties listed on the National Register under Criteria Consideration G. Download Excel file or view in html on the web. State and Regional Guidelines for Determinations of Eligibility for Recent Past Resources: Colorado (taken from How to Apply the Nomination Criteria for the Colorado State Register of Historic Properties)
The Cyclorama Building, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 1961, by Neutra and Alexander. National Historic Landmarks nomination. Submitted by the Society of Architectural Historians. Authored by Richard Longstreth and Christine Madrid French, 1999. Link to Web version: Part I | Part II | Part III. HTML files.
National Register of Historic Places Bulletin #22: Guidelines for Evaluating and Nominating Properties that Have Achieved Significance Within the Past Fifty Years. A must-have for preservationists. Full, printable version available on-line! (Link Here) Preserving the Recent Past, a National Park Service CRM (Cultural Resource Management) Bulletin. Articles by H. Ward Jandl, Thomas Jester, and others illuminate the art of saving our 20th-century landmarks as well as preserving materials particular to this era of architecture.
The U.S. General Services
Administration has produced and maintains links to a number of interesting
documents. All are available on-line at the GSA Historic Preservation
website. Federal Modernism Growth, Efficiency & Modernism: GSA Buildings of the 1950s, 60s and 70s was published in the fall of 2003. GEM Assessment Tool, published as part of the Growth, Efficiency & Modernism book listed above. Architecture of the Great Society summarizes comments and issues from a forum held at Yale University assessing GSA's buildings constructed during the 1960s and 1970s. The Byron G. Rogers Federal Building and Courthouse Case Study is an example of a First Impressions Project in a 1960s modernist building.
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City
and State Level Nominations:
Activities
Building, Chestnut Lodge, Rockville, MD, 1955-75, Chloethiel Woodard
Smith. Statement
of significance prepared by the Recent Past Preservation Network.
"The
Activities Building represents a unique and rare building type designed
by a master architect in collaboration with a leading institution
in the field of mental health care and treatment. The Activities Center
was designed as a medical/ recreational/ community center that successfully
incorporated Chestnut Lodge's treatment philosophy. The
building was cited in a September 1955 article in Architectural Forum
as an outstanding collaboration of client and architect and "should
have great influence both as a specific facility and as an example
of what architecture, given the chance, can do for medicine."
This article provided positive national exposure for Smith's work,
Bradley Karn (the builder), the Activities Building, Chestnut Lodge,
and Rockville. ..." See more of the statement and preservation
updates on our 
Camp
Evans, Wall Township, New Jersey. InfoAge volunteers have been
working long and hard to preserve Camp Evans so InfoAge can give the
historic district a future in education that will ensure its long
term preservation. This is done to inspire students to learn science
and engineering and to honor those wireless communication pioneers,
WWI Naval radio experts, WWII radar developers, home front workers
and cold war information warriors who are associated with Camp Evans.The
original facility was constructed by the Marconi Wireless Telegraph
Company of America as the New York to London link in the ‘World
Encircling Wireless Girdle’. The second group of structures
significant to communications history at Camp Evans were built by
the U.S. Army to serve its mission during World War II as a radar
production center, and its later transition to a research and development
facility. Most of the buildings were built in 1942. Listed on the
National Register of Historic Places. 
Johnie's
Broiler, 7447 Firestone
Boulevard, Downey, California, Paul
B. Clayton, architect, 1958.
Download a copy of the 14-page California Register of Historical
Resources nomination for Johnie's Broiler, authored by Peter C.
Moruzzi, April 20, 2002. Available in 
2002
Pennsylvania at Risk Nomination for the 1961 Civic [Mellon] Arena,
Pittsburgh, PA,
Associate
Architects; Boris Timchenko, Landscape Architect 1964-1971 [Hotel,
Apartment (Co-op), Office, Retail, Restaurant] The
Watergate, a unified complex consisting of six inter-connected
buildings designed and constructed between 1960 and 1971, is one
of the most well-known works of architecture in Washington, D.C.,
possessing significance not only for its political association with
the scandal that led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon
in 1974, but also architecturally as an outstanding and innovative
example of the Modern Movement in the city. 
An
Assessment of the Significance of The Tyrone Guthrie Theatre, 
The
Cyclorama Building at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania is still at risk! This
1961 late-period Neutra work is the only one of its kind on the East Coast.
The building was determined eligible for the National Register of Historic
Places in 1999 but the National Park Service still wants to tear it down.
Photos of the building, and other visitor centers built during Mission
66 (1956-66), are on-line at 
Friendship
Shopping Center (1952-53),