{"nrhp_refnum":"02000442","name":"Holly Avenue Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Broad and Marshall Sts., Holly Ave. and Business I-40","address_restricted":false,"city":"Winston-Salem","county":"Forsyth County","state":"NC","lat":36.09493305750004,"lon":-80.25265681531185,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2002-05-02","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A fifty-nine-acre urban residential historic district of about twelve blocks on the west side of downtown Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina, with 136 resources built mainly from the 1880s through the early 1950s.","why_significant":"The district developed around springs once used by Moravian settlers and was subdivided in 1903 as the Moravian congregation's Reservation. It preserves a bowl-shaped landscape and a range of houses, apartment buildings and outbuildings in Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Craftsman and Minimal Traditional styles. Seventy-nine percent of its resources were built between 1900 and 1930.","narrative":"Holly Avenue Historic District covers fifty-nine acres on the west side of downtown Winston-Salem. Its houses sit on narrow lots in a bowl-shaped landscape of steep hills that descend to springs once used by eighteenth-century Moravian settlers as a water source for Salem. In 1903 the Moravian congregation subdivided the land around the springs, known as the Reservation, and laid out Shady Boulevard and extended Second Street and Holly Avenue. Most of the district's 136 resources were built between 1900 and 1930, with construction peaking from 1906 to 1910. Housing ranges from the Italianate Henry Case House of about 1885, the oldest in the district, to Queen Anne and Colonial Revival homes, bungalows and post-war Minimal Traditional apartment buildings. Calvary Moravian Church, completed in 1926 to designs by Willard Northup, is the most prominent non-residential building. Of the 136 resources, 116 contribute to the district. Losses came from commercial development, parking lots and construction of the East-West Expressway in the early 1950s.","period_of_significance":"c. 1885 to 1952","architect_builder":"Willard Northup of Northup and O'Brien (Calvary Moravian Church)","architectural_style":"Late Victorian (Queen Anne, Italianate); Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals (Colonial Revival); Bungalow/Craftsman","criteria":[],"status_note":"Mostly residential and still in use, with some apartments, a restaurant, businesses and a church. Some historic buildings have been lost to demolition, parking lots and highway construction.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:52.858834-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/54/7202/47720254/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/02000442.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02000442/73bfb09dfc-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02000442/73bfb09dfc-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Holly_Avenue_HD.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Holly_Avenue_HD.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/47720254","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holly_Avenue_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19462369"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/forsyth-county/holly-avenue-historic-district-02000442/"}