{"nrhp_refnum":"01001075","name":"Edenton Historic District (Boundary Increase)","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Both sides 300 block E. King St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Edenton","county":"Chowan County","state":"NC","lat":36.05705887000005,"lon":-76.60421989699995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2001-10-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture","Black"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-block boundary expansion of the Edenton Historic District covering both sides of the 300 block of East King Street in Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina. It holds five houses and a short stretch of railroad track dating from about 1883 to 1910.","why_significant":"The area is argued to reflect Edenton's growth after the railroad arrived and the work of African American craftsmen in the late nineteenth century. It includes the ca. 1883 John T. Page House, with a distinctive sawtooth bargeboard, described as the finest of several Late Gothic Revival houses built by and for the town's Black builders. It also holds good examples of Colonial Revival and vernacular house types. The 1973 district had focused on colonial and antebellum buildings and overlooked this history.","narrative":"This one-block addition to Edenton's historic district covers the 300 block of East King Street. It contains six main resources: five houses and a short length of railroad track, with five judged contributing. The oldest is the ca. 1883 John T. Page House, probably built by Page, a former slave who became a carpenter. Its sawn and drilled bargeboard marks it as the finest of the town's Gothic Revival houses built by and for Black craftsmen. Nearby are the small ca. 1898 Teeny Blount House, a two-story Victorian I-house with a double-tier porch moved in the 1970s, and a 1910 Colonial Revival foursquare. The railroad track dates from 1902 and recalls the Suffolk and Carolina Railroad. The area was left out of the 1973 district, which concentrated on colonial and antebellum buildings. Its period of significance runs from about 1883 to 1910, reflecting railroad-driven growth and African American building traditions.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1883 to 1910","architect_builder":"Page, John Tyler; Muth, Frank Fred","architectural_style":"Late Gothic Revival, Colonial Revival, Victorian","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The Teeny Blount House is currently vacant. The other resources continue in their original use, as houses and a rarely used rail line.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:53.531765-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/29/7196/47719629/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/01001075.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"73001316","name":"Edenton Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/north-carolina/edenton-historic-district-73001316/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719629","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/chowan-county/edenton-historic-district-boundary-increase-01001075/"}