{"nrhp_refnum":"03000344","name":"Wilmington Historic District (Boundary Increase)","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Harnett,7th,3rd,Howard;Campbell, 9th, 12th,Princess;Dock, Castle 8th,14th;9th,Wright,Greenfield","address_restricted":false,"city":"Wilmington","county":"New Hanover County","state":"NC","lat":34.23470852300005,"lon":-77.93797449599134,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2003-05-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture","Community Planning and Development","Black","Education"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A boundary increase to the Wilmington Historic District in Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, comprising four geographically separate areas (Brooklyn, Hemenway, the Bottom, Dry Pond) plus a section along South Eighth Street, containing sixty-one properties. The expansion areas are residential neighborhoods with some commercial and institutional buildings.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the expansion areas illustrate the lives of Wilmington's African American and white working-class and lower-income residents from the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth century. It identifies Williston School and its 1953 and 1968-1971 history as landmarks of the Civil Rights struggle in the city, and describes the area as a distinctive collection of simple, often unornamented house forms.","narrative":"Wilmington's expansion neighborhoods of Brooklyn, Hemenway, the Bottom and Dry Pond developed on extensions of the original city grid, mostly between about 1910 and 1940, with some houses dating from around 1890. The streets hold front-gable cottages, pyramidal cottages and Craftsman bungalows, many built for African American and lower-income white households. Williston School, with a campus that includes buildings from 1953 and earlier, is the most prominent institution in the area. Its high school closed in June 1968 as part of a desegregation plan, prompting protests and racial unrest that ran until February 1971 when fire-bombings and violence struck the city. The neighborhoods are listed for their collective architecture, their role in the city's cotton, railroad and fertilizer economy, and their connection to African American education and civil rights history in Wilmington.","period_of_significance":"1890-1945; 1953; and 1968-1971","architect_builder":"Lynch and Foard; Boney, Leslie N., Sr.","architectural_style":"Late Victorian: Queen Anne; Late 19th & Early 20th C. American Movement: Bungalow; Modern Movement: Art Deco, Modernist; Gable front house; Pyramidal cottage","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":null,"vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.422801-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/52/7215/47721552/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/03000344.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03000344/bcce9c1caa-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03000344/bcce9c1caa-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Jameslwoodward","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bellamy_Mansion_Wilmington_NC_front_02.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jameslwoodward</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:Bellamy_Mansion_Wilmington_NC_front_02.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"74001364","name":"Wilmington Historic and Archeological District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/north-carolina/wilmington-historic-and-archeological-district-74001364/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721552","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmington_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22061146"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/new-hanover-county/wilmington-historic-district-boundary-increase-03000344/"}