{"nrhp_refnum":"03000391","name":"Vanguard Park Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by McCarthy St., Whitaker Mill Rd., Pine Ave., and Hudson St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Raleigh","county":"Wake County","state":"NC","lat":35.80703443650006,"lon":-78.6393403665495,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2003-05-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district of early twentieth-century houses northeast of the Five Points intersection in Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina. It contains roughly 148 single-family dwellings along with duplexes, apartments, outbuildings and a church.","why_significant":"The district is significant for its collection of intact, representative residential buildings in nationally popular styles from about 1920 through 1952, including Craftsman, Colonial Revival, Dutch Colonial Revival, Period Cottage and Minimal Traditional houses. Its post-World War II Minimal Traditional housing is tied to federal VA and FHA mortgage programs that drove local construction.","narrative":"Vanguard Park is a residential district of mostly one and one-and-a-half story houses on small lots northeast of the Five Points intersection in Raleigh, North Carolina. Platting began in 1916 and 1917, and the district was completed with a 1936 replatting of the earlier Villa Park lots. Construction came in three waves: Craftsman bungalows and front-gable houses from about 1920 to 1929, pared-down Craftsman, Period Cottage and Minimal Traditional houses in the 1930s and recovery years, and a larger wave from 1945 to the mid-1950s. The district is regarded as a well-preserved example of a streetcar-era suburb. Its concentration of post-war Minimal Traditional houses reflects the effect of federal mortgage programs on suburban building. Its houses are considered comparable to those in neighboring Five Points subdivisions and to Roanoke Park, which is located immediately south.","period_of_significance":"C. 1920-1952","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Bungalow/Craftsman; Period Cottage; Colonial Revival; Dutch Colonial Revival; American Foursquare; Minimal Traditional","criteria":["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 17:11:41.57011-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/25/7185/47718525/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/03000391.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"03000389","name":"Roanoke Park Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/north-carolina/roanoke-park-historic-district-03000389/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47718525","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanguard_Park_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7914836"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/wake-county/vanguard-park-historic-district-03000391/"}