The first step to getting a site listed in the New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places is to prepare a preliminary application. The Springsteen Archives recently completed the preliminary application for the Stone Pony in Asbury Park and received a letter last month from Katherine J. Marcopul certifying that “After careful consideration, it is my opinion as Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer for NJ that, based on the available information, the Stone Pony is individually eligible to be listed in the New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places…”
Getting this certificate of eligibility is a very exciting milestone in the process of getting the Pony formal historical recognition, officials said.
The next step is to compile the full application. It will take some time to write, as these usually run in excess of 100 pages, and State Historic Preservation Office advise that that writing and then approval phase of the process could take two to three years.
