{"nrhp_refnum":"01000426","name":"New Hill Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly 0.5 S of jct. of Old US 1 and NC 1127, and 2 mi. W of jct. with Old US 1","address_restricted":false,"city":"New Hill","county":"Wake County","state":"NC","lat":35.67979954750004,"lon":-78.93937014934153,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2001-04-25","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A rural crossroads village district of about 282 acres in New Hill, western Wake County, North Carolina, made up of stores, houses, farmsteads, a Baptist church and cemetery, and railroad tracks, dating mainly from the mid-19th to mid-20th century.","why_significant":"The district is described as a well-preserved and increasingly rare example of the rural crossroads communities once common in Wake County. It retains its commercial core, church, dwellings and tobacco farmsteads, which show the link between agriculture and commerce and the bright leaf tobacco transformation of the landscape. The form lists Criteria A and C and areas of significance in Agriculture and Architecture, but the surviving text says it qualifies under Criterion C.","narrative":"New Hill is a small crossroads community in western Wake County, North Carolina, where Old U.S. Highway 1 meets New Hill-Holleman Road. The historic district covers about 282 acres of farmland and pine woods and holds stores, houses, farmsteads, a Gothic Revival Baptist church of about 1888 with its cemetery, and a rail line. The village grew from a mid-nineteenth-century post office and the arrival of the Raleigh and Augusta Railroad, and by the 1880s it had stores, a sawmill, a cider mill and a turpentine distillery. Paving of the highway in 1928 brought motorists to the Roundy motor court and tearoom. Farmsteads with tobacco barns, including three with terra cotta tile siding, reflect the spread of bright leaf tobacco farming. Despite suburban growth nearby, the district keeps its early-to-mid-twentieth-century look and its field patterns. It was listed for its agricultural and architectural significance between 1860 and 1950.","period_of_significance":"1860-1950","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Late Victorian, Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, Bungalow/Craftsman, Gothic Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Largely intact and still rural; some resources are vacant, including the former Bright's store (vacant since the 1940s) and two corner stores (vacant since about 1960). The Roundy general store remains in operation.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:53.751459-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/11/7225/47722511/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/01000426.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01000426/fed1339f52-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01000426/fed1339f52-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"KimWrenn","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:W_T_Roundy_Motor_Court_and_house_New_Hill_NC.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">KimWrenn</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:W_T_Roundy_Motor_Court_and_house_New_Hill_NC.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722511","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Hill_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7008644"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/wake-county/new-hill-historic-district-01000426/"}