{"nrhp_refnum":"03000342","name":"Salisbury Railroad Corridor Historic District (Boundary Increase)","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"300 and 400 blks of N. Lee St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Salisbury","county":"Rowan County","state":"NC","lat":35.668970408000064,"lon":-80.46533869499996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2003-05-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Commerce"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A boundary expansion and additional documentation for a railroad-related historic district along the 300 and 400 blocks of North Lee Street in Salisbury, Rowan County, North Carolina. It adds eleven warehouse and service buildings built between 1920 and 1951 to the district first designated in 1987.","why_significant":"The added buildings were all built as warehouses serving trade brought by the Southern Railway, and they complete the historic extent of railroad-related warehouse development between North Lee Street and the rail line. They are described as typical utilitarian warehouse design of the early twentieth century and World War II era, with details such as brick patterns, corbelling and parapets. The form marks significance under commerce and architecture.","narrative":"Along the east side of North Lee Street in Salisbury, a row of brick warehouses built between 1920 and 1951 grew up beside a railroad spur that served their rear loading docks. This expansion adds eleven buildings and one vacant lot to the existing railroad corridor district, and ten of the eleven buildings count as contributing. Each was built to handle goods moved by the Southern Railway, and they have housed wholesale grocers, feed and fertilizer dealers, brokerages, an underwear factory and a Coca-Cola bottler. Most are one-story, flat-roofed, share common walls and have white-painted street fronts. Details include sixteen-light windows, stepped parapets, crenellations and corbelled cornices, with the building at 329 North Lee Street showing the most ornament. The additions fill out the district's boundary so it covers all the historic warehouse and railroad-related buildings between Lee Street and the tracks. The documentation also corrects dates for several buildings in the original district and records demolitions.","period_of_significance":"1920-1951","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Commercial Style; No Style","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Many of the warehouses are still used for warehouse or service uses, while several, including 305, 311 and 325-329 North Lee Street, are described as currently vacant. One building at 201 East Liberty Street is heavily altered and non-contributing.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:53.237256-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/78/7220/47722078/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/03000342.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"86003460","name":"Salisbury Railroad Corridor Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/north-carolina/salisbury-railroad-corridor-historic-district-86003460/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722078","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/rowan-county/salisbury-railroad-corridor-historic-district-boundary-increase-03000342/"}