{"nrhp_refnum":"03000266","name":"Morehead City Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly along Fisher St. and Bridges St., from N. 5th St. to N. 12th St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Morehead","county":"Carteret County","state":"NC","lat":34.722827906500044,"lon":-76.71382927292336,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2003-04-18","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Social History","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district of about fourteen blocks in the oldest section of Morehead City, Carteret County, North Carolina, laid out on a grid around the Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad terminus from 1857. It contains frame houses, bungalows, churches, commercial buildings and the Charles S. Wallace Graded School.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district is significant at the statewide level for community development and planning and social history as a coastal resort and fisheries town from the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries. It also argues local significance for its collection of vernacular and popular-style architecture, including Queen Anne houses, bungalows and the 'Morehead Special' cottage type.","narrative":"Morehead City's historic core is a grid of blocks laid out in 1857 around the terminus of the Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad, with a central thoroughfare and H-shaped alleys behind 50-by-100-foot lots. The district holds frame houses of the late 1850s through the early 1950s, most built between about 1900 and 1930. Notable examples include the Elijah M. Dudley House, built about 1857 at 810 Fisher Street, and the Headen-Norris House, built in 1905 at 806 Arendell Street. Two houses on Fisher Street built about 1915 illustrate the 'Morehead Special' cottage, a local variation of the pyramidal-roof type. The 1930 Charles S. Wallace Graded School, a brick Neoclassical Revival building, anchors the west half of the district, along with several churches. The district's development was tied to the railroad, to resort hotels such as the Atlantic Hotel in Beaufort, and to the fishing and canning industries that employed many residents.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1857-1952","architect_builder":"Atwood and Nash, Inc. (architects); Linthicum & Linthicum (architects); Jones Brothers & Co. (contractors); Lewis, Elmer (contractor)","architectural_style":"Greek Revival, Queen Anne, Late Gothic Revival, Colonial Revival, Commercial Style, Bungalow/Craftsman, I-House","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The district contains 123 contributing buildings and 108 noncontributing buildings, and thirteen vacant lots. Most of the district retains its historic character, though many houses have vinyl siding.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.250092-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/32/7194/47719432/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/03000266.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03000266/23df8f0388-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03000266/23df8f0388-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Carl Griffith","credit_html":"Carl Griffith, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Morehead_City_Historic_District_(Carteret_County,_North_Carolina)_1.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719432","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morehead_City_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18154628"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/carteret-county/morehead-city-historic-district-03000266/"}