{"nrhp_refnum":"01000124","name":"Hyman Heights-Mount Royal Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Ridgecrest Pl., Highland Ave., Hyman Ave., Patton St., N. Main St., and Oakland St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Hendersonville","county":"Henderson County","state":"NC","lat":35.32550092400007,"lon":-82.46368439580857,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2001-02-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A roughly forty-acre residential historic district northeast of downtown Hendersonville, Henderson County, North Carolina, made up of the 1908 Hyman Heights plat, the 1923 Mount Royal plat and one lot of the 1925 O. Roy Keith subdivision. It holds 123 contributing and 26 non-contributing houses and outbuildings.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the district as an intact early-to-mid twentieth-century neighborhood. It combines a grid-plan subdivision with a curvilinear, Olmsted-influenced section. It contains a good range of bungalows, Colonial Revival and Minimal Traditional houses. Most contributing buildings were built before 1955, and development ran in two main phases, ca. 1905 to the late 1920s and the late 1940s to mid-1950s.","narrative":"Northeast of downtown Hendersonville, this forty-acre neighborhood combines two early twentieth-century subdivisions: Hyman Heights, platted in 1908 on a grid, and Mount Royal, platted in 1923 with curving streets that follow steep terrain and reflect an Olmsted-style approach to land planning. It holds 123 contributing houses and outbuildings and 26 non-contributing ones, and most were built before 1955 and remain largely intact. Bungalows are the most common type, followed by Minimal Traditional and Colonial Revival houses, with a few Ranch, Foursquare and other examples. Killarney, built about 1858, is the oldest house and the district's only Gothic Revival building. Much of the land was once part of its property. Stone retaining walls, mature trees and sidewalks mark the streetscapes. Building took place mainly from about 1905 to the late 1920s, with a second wave from the late 1940s to the mid-1950s. The district was listed for this cohesive collection of residential architecture and planning.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1858-1954","architect_builder":"Phillip Dietz (builder of the Melvin Hatch House)","architectural_style":"Bungalow, Colonial Revival, Minimal Traditional","criteria":[],"status_note":"Most buildings are described as in good or excellent condition and mostly intact; the district includes five vacant lots.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:54.737511-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/87/7179/47717987/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/01000124.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01000124/33a5ee1987-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01000124/33a5ee1987-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Upstateherd","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hyman_Heights_Entrance.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Upstateherd</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hyman_Heights_Entrance.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47717987","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyman_Heights%E2%80%93Mount_Royal_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19462457"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/henderson-county/hyman-heights-mount-royal-historic-district-01000124/"}