{"nrhp_refnum":"01001095","name":"Williamston Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Franklin, Harrell, Williams, South Haughton, North Railroad, Roberson, and White Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Williamston","county":"Martin County","state":"NC","lat":35.855219326000025,"lon":-77.05878225804148,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2001-10-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A large residential historic district in Williamston, the county seat of Martin County, North Carolina, covering about forty-two blocks of houses, churches, schools and government buildings dating from about 1800 to 1950.","why_significant":"The district preserves the town's historic residential neighborhoods with a high level of integrity, with 396 of 609 resources contributing. It holds a broad range of house types and styles from Federal and Greek Revival through Queen Anne, Colonial Revival and Craftsman. The form text provided is truncated, so the full significance statement is not available.","narrative":"Williamston Historic District covers the historic residential neighborhoods of Williamston, the county seat of Martin County in North Carolina's northern coastal plain. Spread over roughly forty-two blocks near the Roanoke River, it contains 609 resources, of which 396 contribute. About 94 percent are dwellings and their outbuildings, mostly frame houses. Seven predate the Civil War, led by the 1812 Hyman-Rhodes House and the 1847-1848 Greek Revival Cushing Biggs Hassell House, built by master builder Albert Gamaliel Jones. Later neighborhoods add Italianate, Queen Anne, Craftsman bungalow and many Colonial Revival houses, including brick examples of the 1930s, one designed by architect Charles Collins Benton. The 1915 Gardner-Edmondson House was the first brick house in town. Churches, schools and county government buildings on East Church Street also sit within the boundaries. The district was recognized for the integrity and variety of its architecture, with only a small share of primary resources altered enough to lose contributing status.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Albert Gamaliel Jones (master builder, Cushing Biggs Hassell House); Charles Collins Benton (architect, C. A. Harrison House); Albert T. Perry (builder)","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival, Bungalow/Craftsman, Greek Revival, Federal, Late Gothic Revival, Queen Anne, Tudor Revival, Italianate, Spanish Colonial Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Overwhelmingly residential and still in use; 94 percent of primary resources are dwellings, 79 percent of primary resources contribute, and the district includes sixteen vacant lots and four parking lots.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:54.152765-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/15/7212/47721215/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/01001095.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01001095/5a7985e20d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01001095/5a7985e20d-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"self","credit_html":"self, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Williamston,_NC_-_Frank_Earl_Wynne_House.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721215","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williamston_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22061144"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/martin-county/williamston-historic-district-01001095/"}