County Auditor: How to make an application to the National Register of Historic Places
According to Wikipedia: The term county auditor is applied as a descriptor, and sometimes as a title, for the fiscal officer in county government with oversight responsibility of all financial books and records of all county offices
It’s very likely that the county auditor is going to have useful information about your chosen building. Different counties are organised differently and the variation between their websites and their usability are vastly different. I struggled with the Mercer County interface but I received wonderful guidance and patient help from the staff at my local library who have more experience with this than me.
We selected a ‘parcel search’ to find the plot of land. Searching by user name did not work because the obvious variations we tried of ‘post office’ all failed. Next we tried address number and address name: 101 East Main Street. Apparently, this is not usual because of all the possible abbreviations that can be used. East shortened to E. Street shortened to St. We didn’t have a Map number or a Parcel number. Next we tried Legal Description. We typed in post office and finally an entry appeared.
When we clicked on the link for the current year, this wonderful ‘property record card’ appeared.
We tried the other links but they were all either broken, missing or irrelevant.
County Auditor: How to make an application to the National Register of Historic Places