{"nrhp_refnum":"00000393","name":"East Davis Street Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by E. Davis St., S. Mebane St., E. Webb Ave., and Tucker St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Burlington","county":"Alamance County","state":"NC","lat":36.08941586250006,"lon":-79.43121939959863,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2000-04-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A roughly sixteen-acre residential historic district east of downtown Burlington, Alamance County, North Carolina, centered on the 500 and 600 blocks of East Davis Street. It holds houses built from the 1880s to about 1950, plus one commercial building and one church.","why_significant":"The district is a concentrated collection of middle-class houses built for Burlington's business, industrial and civic leaders, along with smaller homes for mill workers. Its Queen Anne houses are landmarks of the town's early industrial era, and the bungalows built by the second generation of residents are also notable. With the Holt family mansions gone, these houses are among the few survivors of that period.","narrative":"East Davis Street Historic District is a small neighborhood of about sixteen acres just east of downtown Burlington, North Carolina. Of its fifty-eight resources, thirty-two are principal buildings, mostly houses built between the 1880s and about 1950, together with a church and a 1929 Mission style service station. Merchants, bankers, doctors and industrialists built Queen Anne houses here, among them the John R. Foster, Stafford-Moore, James Wesley Cates and John M. Fix houses. Later residents added Craftsman bungalows, including a stone house for Minter A. Coble, and a Neoclassical Revival house. Smaller dwellings housed workers from nearby textile mills. The neighborhood stayed fashionable until suburban growth after World War II, when large houses were split into apartments. Office zoning in the 1970s eroded its residential character, but newer homeowners have worked to restore it and have won a return to residential zoning. It was recognized for its architecture and its role in the town's development.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1888-1942","architect_builder":"Cates, James Wesley","architectural_style":"Queen Anne, Classical Revival, Bungalow/Craftsman","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Largely residential and still in use. Some large houses were divided into apartments after World War II, and the area was recently rezoned back to residential use. The 1929 service station still operates as an auto repair shop.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:52.786987-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/40/7172/47717240/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/00000393.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47717240","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Davis_Street_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17515105"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/alamance-county/east-davis-street-historic-district-00000393/"}