{"nrhp_refnum":"01001130","name":"Winston-Salem City Hall","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"101 S. Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Winston-Salem","county":"Forsyth County","state":"NC","lat":36.095050350000065,"lon":-80.24313808999995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2001-10-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Politics/Government"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Winston-Salem City Hall is a three-story civic building at 101 South Main Street in Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina, completed in 1926. It was designed by the local firm Northup and O'Brien.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is the city's only Renaissance Revival civic architecture and an important design by a prolific local firm. It is also tied to Winston-Salem's municipal government, which met there for seventy-four years and was vacated for renovations in 2000. The exterior is said to have changed very little, and the building is said to have been shaped by the influence of the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company.","narrative":"Built in 1926 to designs by the Winston-Salem firm Northup and O'Brien, this three-story brick civic building stands on Main Street with a first floor of rusticated limestone and a balustraded limestone cornice. Its front facade is divided into seventeen bays, with a central pavilion framed by two-story limestone pilasters. Inside, a grand staircase with marble treads and a metal filigree balustrade rises from a marble-floored lobby. The building housed the city government for seventy-four years, and its exterior has changed little apart from replacement windows and a rear addition. It is considered the city's only example of Renaissance Revival civic architecture. Its place in local history rests on its role as the seat of municipal government and its connection to the industrial influence of the tobacco company that shaped the city during the 1920s.","period_of_significance":"1926-1951","architect_builder":"Northup and O'Brien, Architects","architectural_style":"Classical Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Vacated for renovations in 2000; renovation underway at time of nomination.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.553019-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/32/7202/47720232/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/01001130.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01001130/781449ee12-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01001130/781449ee12-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"David Bjorgen","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Winston-Salem_City_Hall.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">David Bjorgen</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:Winston-Salem_City_Hall.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"100008467","name":"Downtown Winston-Salem Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/north-carolina/downtown-winston-salem-historic-district-100008467/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720232","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston-Salem_City_Hall","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18706200"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/forsyth-county/winston-salem-city-hall-01001130/"}