{"nrhp_refnum":"00000458","name":"LaGrange Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by N. Caswell, E. James, N. Carey, E. Washington, S. Caswell, W. Washington, and Forbes Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"LaGrange","county":"Lenoir County","state":"NC","lat":35.30733288250008,"lon":-77.79192477382108,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2000-05-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Commerce","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A railroad-town historic district in LaGrange, Lenoir County, North Carolina, covering parts of about twenty-five blocks of homes, a business district, a school and an industrial complex, with buildings dating from about 1858 to 1949.","why_significant":"The district holds a coherent collection of architectural styles and types that reflect the town's growth after the railroad arrived in the 1850s. Its residential streets, early twentieth-century commercial blocks, school and industrial complex retain good historic integrity. The Section 8 text is not included in the excerpt, so the stated reasons come from the description.","narrative":"LaGrange is a small railroad town in western Lenoir County, in North Carolina's flat, largely agricultural coastal plain. Its historic district is organized around the east-west railroad tracks and the crossing of Railroad and Caswell Streets. The district takes in parts of twenty-five blocks laid out on a regular grid, with 306 resources, about three-quarters of them contributing. Houses range from mid-nineteenth-century Greek Revival cottages to mid-twentieth-century ranch houses, and Queen Anne designs predominate. Notable examples include the 1887 Colonel A. C. Davis House and the c. 1898 Sutton-Kinsey House. The 100 block of South Caswell Street forms a compact business district of mostly 1910s red-brick buildings, anchored by the 1908 Neoclassical Revival Rouse Banking Company Building. At the west end stand the 1928 Colonial Revival LaGrange Elementary School and the Hardy-Newsome Industrial Complex, whose early twentieth-century brick buildings have stepped-parapet gables. The district is listed for its coherent record of the town's development from the 1850s railroad era through 1949.","period_of_significance":"c. 1858 to 1949","architect_builder":"Leslie N. Boney (architect of the 1928 LaGrange Elementary School)","architectural_style":"Queen Anne, Bungalow/Craftsman, Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, Italianate, Neoclassical Revival, Colonial Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"The district includes 226 contributing and 80 noncontributing resources. Integrity is described as good, with minor alterations such as vinyl siding, rear additions and replacement windows.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:52.880491-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/54/7210/47721054/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/00000458.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00000458/608daf96f7-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00000458/608daf96f7-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Tradewinds","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:La_Grange_Historic_District.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Tradewinds</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:La_Grange_Historic_District.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721054","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Grange_Historic_District_(North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14708011"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/lenoir-county/lagrange-historic-district-00000458/"}