{"nrhp_refnum":"02001179","name":"Five Points Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Jct. of E. Main St., Pee Dee Ave., and 4th St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Albemarle","county":"Stanly County","state":"NC","lat":35.35053175100006,"lon":-80.19440103999995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2002-10-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Industry","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A four-block commercial and industrial district at the five-point junction of East Main Street, Pee Dee Avenue and Fourth Street on the eastern edge of downtown Albemarle, Stanly County, North Carolina. It contains five early-twentieth-century commercial buildings and the Lillian Knitting Mills complex, built from 1905 onward.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district is locally significant for its cohesive group of masonry buildings tied to commercial and industrial growth in Albemarle in the early twentieth century. It is described as the town's only such intact collection. Lillian Knitting Mills is presented as the most intact of the county's remaining textile factory complexes.","narrative":"Built along East Main Street and Fourth Street at the low point where a creek was piped underground around 1917, the Five Points district brings together five early-twentieth-century commercial buildings and the Lillian Knitting Mills. The mill was founded by A. L. Patterson in May 1905 and named for his wife, and it was completed late that year by Concord contractor R. A. Brown. It is regarded as Stanly County's best preserved early textile mill, with a design showing Italianate influence. The district's buildings date from 1922 onward and include a granite-block Auten-Wolfe Motor Company building, later the Morgan Motor Company, and a Neoclassical Model Tailoring Company building with Doric capitals. The district is considered significant for documenting how commerce and industry shifted toward automobile-oriented and truck-dependent activity away from the rail lines. Its buildings retain a high degree of integrity, which is why they are valued as Albemarle's only surviving group of their kind.","period_of_significance":"1905 - ca. 1950","architect_builder":"Holbroook, D.A. (builder)","architectural_style":"Commercial Style","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Three buildings are described as vacant; the Anderson Grocery and Morgan Motor Company buildings are currently vacant, and the Model Tailoring Company building is now used as a residence and offices.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:42.1053-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/68/7222/47722268/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/02001179.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02001179/3bea7456ef-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02001179/3bea7456ef-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Jerrye &amp; Roy Klotz, MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FIVE_POINTS_HISTORIC_DISTRICT,_STANLY_COUNTY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jerrye &amp;amp; Roy Klotz, MD</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:FIVE_POINTS_HISTORIC_DISTRICT,_STANLY_COUNTY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722268","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Points_Historic_District_(Albemarle,_North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19946144"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/stanly-county/five-points-historic-district-02001179/"}