Now
Every National Register listing placed inside a city, ranked within Census size classes on four measures, with the records behind every number one click away. Architectural styles read from the nomination texts for Indiana, marked not yet verified until a person checks them. Pages for every style, category and size class.
Next: a map you can travel with in progress
The ask that comes up most: "I'm going to a new city; show me every Modern house on a map and let me drive to them." Today each city's panel has a map of its listings coloured by the style or category in view, a driving tour link that opens the listings in view as a Google Maps route in shortest-next-stop order from the city centre (or from where you are, if you have shared your location), and a map link on every listing. The listings in a city's panel are ordered by official importance: National Historic Landmarks first, then national, state and local significance.
Now: Plan a tour picks a city and a style and gives you the stops on a map in driving order, a route link and a link to share. Coming: a full-screen map of everything around you, filtered by style, period or category; a "most important works here" list for any city, built from designations, criteria and the nomination texts rather than taste; tour vendors and places to stay, integrated; and the same for sculpture and public art once a second register is in the index.
Next: human verification coming soon
Thousands of style tags were read from nomination texts by a model and each carries the sentence it rests on. The verify link beside a tag will open a short form: is this right, how do you know, who are you. A verified answer becomes a row of public data and overrides the inference; a disputed one removes the tag. Until the form exists, the link brings you here, and the tag stays marked unverified.
With it comes a queue near you: pin your city and see the tags, and the listings without a style, that could use someone who can walk past the building.
Next: accounts coming soon
Verifying, adding and discussing need a name to credit and a way to tell a careful contributor from a drive-by. Accounts will be light: a name, an email, a record of what you have verified.
Next: adding and correcting coming soon
A listing in the wrong city, a style the nomination names that the reader missed, a place that is not in the index at all. "Missing a place? Tell us" will open a form for exactly that, with the source asked for every time. Until then it brings you here.
Next: a community forum coming soon
A place to argue about whether a courthouse is Richardsonian or merely Romanesque, with the nomination open beside the thread. It depends on accounts and verification, so it comes after them.
After that
- Every state read. Nomination texts have been read for Indiana only; the other states' documents are being archived now, and the style pages say how far reading has got.
- City and state pages. A page for each of the 1,587 ranked cities and each state, with the listings, the style mix and the city's rank in every category.
- Use cases. Travel planning around a style or a period; pages that answer a question rather than show a table.
- Cities like this one. Grouping cities by the mix of styles they hold, once the reading is national enough to be fair.
How the order is decided
Whatever makes the numbers more trustworthy comes first. Verification before accounts, accounts before the forum, national reading before any ranking that depends on it. If something here matters to you, the credits page says who is building it.