{"nrhp_refnum":"00000824","name":"North Third Avenue Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by N. Second Ave., E. Fourth St., N. Third Ave., and E. Third St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Siler City","county":"Chatham County","state":"NC","lat":35.726359133000074,"lon":-79.46276521199997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2000-07-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district of late nineteenth and early twentieth century houses and a 1928-1930 church on North Third Avenue, East Fourth Street and North Second Avenue, several blocks northeast of the central business district of Siler City, Chatham County, North Carolina.","why_significant":"The district is nominated under Criterion C for its collection of architecture spanning triple-A form, Neo-classical Revival, Craftsman bungalow and Romanesque/Moorish church design. It is also nominated under Criterion A for community planning and development, as the best-preserved part of one of the first residential neighborhoods developed east of the commercial district at the turn of the century.","narrative":"Siler City's North Third Avenue Historic District lies several blocks northeast of the town's central business district and contains houses built from about 1890 to 1930, along with a 1928-1930 church. The neighborhood developed in the early twentieth century as a residential area for bankers, physicians, politicians and businessmen, and it grew gradually rather than under a single plan. Its oldest building is the frame triple-A form William Wren House of about 1890. The 1916 Matthews-Wren House, designed for pharmacist Dr. George Edgar Matthews and built by contractor John W. Turner, was given a two-story Neo-classical portico with Ionic columns in about 1918. Several one-story Craftsman bungalows of the 1920s and a boxy foursquare house also stand in the district. The First Baptist Church, designed by Greensboro architect Harry Barton, has a basilica plan, a rose window and a Romanesque and Moorish design that is regarded as one of the most ambitious churches in Chatham County.","period_of_significance":"C. 1890-c. 1930","architect_builder":"Harry Barton (architect, First Baptist Church); John W. Turner (builder, Matthews-Wren House)","architectural_style":"Classical Revival; Romanesque; Bungalow/Craftsman","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":null,"vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:42.689433-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/61/7195/47719561/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/00000824.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719561","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Third_Avenue_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18169370"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/chatham-county/north-third-avenue-historic-district-00000824/"}