A designation reserved for a district, site, building, structure, orobject of exceptional significanceto the U.S. as a whole, rather than just to a particular state or locality; NHL designation is conferred by the Secretary of the Interior; as of 1992, there were approximately 2,000 NHLs across the nation; since 1935 all NHLs are listed in the National Register of Historic Places. (Bucher, 1996) Photo from Asheville, North Carolina, 2014.