{"nrhp_refnum":"00001122","name":"Snow Hill Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Greene, Harper, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Snow Hill","county":"Greene County","state":"NC","lat":35.45272665250005,"lon":-77.67090623374563,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2000-09-14","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 about 153 acres covering the roughly twenty-block core of Snow Hill, the Greene County seat in North Carolina, on the south bank of Contentnea Creek along Greene Street. It contains 192 contributing and 111 noncontributing resources.","why_significant":"The district is argued to be significant under Criteria A and C, in the areas of Community Planning and Development and Architecture. It preserves a small county seat that grew with the tobacco industry and the railroad, and it holds a varied collection of Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, Italianate, Stick Style, Queen Anne, Neoclassical, Craftsman and Colonial Revival buildings. Its overall integrity is described as impressive.","narrative":"Snow Hill's historic core is a district of roughly twenty blocks along Greene Street, on a ridge above Contentnea Creek and Long Branch in Greene County, North Carolina. It includes a three-block commercial strip, the 1935 Colonial Revival courthouse built with Works Progress Administration funds, and the oldest dwellings of the town to the south. Houses range from mid-nineteenth-century Greek Revival and a Gothic Revival cottage to Italianate, Stick Style, Queen Anne, Neoclassical and many Craftsman bungalows. Most homes date from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when the tobacco industry and a railroad from Kinston brought growth and a more commercial village economy. Churches in Revival styles and a few unusual designs, such as a Spanish Mission house, add variety. Of 303 resources, 192 contribute to the district's character. Its period of significance runs from about 1850 to 1945, and it is recognized for community development and architecture as a small county seat that has changed little since 1950.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1850-1945","architect_builder":"Herman, Thomas B.; Loving, T.A. Company; Faircloth, W. T.; Porter and Goodwin","architectural_style":"Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, Queen Anne, Stick/Eastlake, Colonial Revival, Bungalow/Craftsman, No Style","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The district remains in use as a small county seat, with houses, shops, the courthouse, churches and a cemetery still serving their functions.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:54.569497-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/74/7204/47720474/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/00001122.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720474","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Hill_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22061088"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/greene-county/snow-hill-historic-district-00001122/"}