{"nrhp_refnum":"00000550","name":"North Smithfield Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Market, Front, North, and Seventh Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Smithfield","county":"Johnston County","state":"NC","lat":35.51387149400006,"lon":-78.34354121296874,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2000-05-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A roughly 50-acre residential historic district on the north side of downtown Smithfield, Johnston County, North Carolina, with buildings dating from about 1850 to 1950. It includes houses, one industrial building, one church and one cemetery.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district is significant under Criteria A and C, for community development and architecture. It preserves a largely intact neighborhood of homes built for Smithfield's professionals, businessmen and middle-class residents. The houses show many nationally popular styles from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.","narrative":"North Smithfield Historic District is a compact residential neighborhood of about 50 acres, just north of Smithfield's business district in Johnston County, North Carolina. It covers twenty-two blockfaces and holds buildings from about 1850 to 1950, including single and multi-family houses, a church, a cemetery and a former water power plant. The oldest building is a circa 1850 Greek Revival office on North Second Street. Later homes range from Italianate and Queen Anne dwellings of the 1880s to Neoclassical Revival mansions, Colonial Revival houses, Craftsman bungalows and 1930s and 1940s period cottages. Architect John C. Stout designed the 1912 Long House. The neighborhood was built for attorneys, merchants, insurance agents and other professionals alongside middle-class families, and it keeps mature shade trees and sidewalks. Of 164 resources, 124 contribute to its character. The district was recognized for its role in the town's community development and for its architecture.","period_of_significance":"circa 1850-1950","architect_builder":"Stout, John C.","architectural_style":"Queen Anne, Italianate Revival, Neoclassical Revival, Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, Craftsman","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Largely intact residential neighborhood; 124 resources contribute and 40 do not. Most houses remain in residential use, and the cemetery and a former women's club building are also still in use.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:52.854826-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/6/7210/47721006/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/00000550.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721006","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Smithfield_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18922589"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/johnston-county/north-smithfield-historic-district-00000550/"}