{"nrhp_refnum":"03001272","name":"Union Street North-Cabarrus Avenue Commercial Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly Union St. N, Cabarrus Ave. E, Cabarrus Ave. W, and Church St. S","address_restricted":false,"city":"Concord","county":"Cabarrus County","state":"NC","lat":35.41073850600003,"lon":-80.58126759099997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2003-12-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture","Entertainment/Recreation"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small historic commercial district of seventeen buildings and one parking lot at the north end of Concord's central business district, centered on the intersection of Union Street and Cabarrus Avenue in Concord, Cabarrus County, North Carolina.","why_significant":"The district is argued to be significant for its commercial history in the early twentieth century, for its role as the town's center for theatrical and movie entertainment from the 1920s, and for three individually distinctive buildings: the Concord National Bank-Hotel Concord, the Concord Theatre, and the Concord Telephone Company Exchange Building. It is presented as the north anchor to Concord's downtown and a complement to the separately listed South Union Street Courthouse and Commercial Historic District.","narrative":"Seventeen commercial buildings and a parking lot cluster around the intersection of Union Street and Cabarrus Avenue in Concord, the Cabarrus County seat. Most are brick, built between about 1905 and 1952, and many follow a standard commercial design with corbelled cornices and decorative brickwork. Their significance rests on the commercial growth that followed Concord's textile-driven expansion, when the population rose from about 800 in 1870 to nearly 8,000 in 1900. The district also held the town's main entertainment venues from the 1920s. The Concord National Bank-Hotel Concord, a six-story Beaux Arts building opened in 1926 and designed by William L. Stoddard, is its architectural centerpiece. The 1925 Concord Theatre has a richly plastered ceiling, and the Concord Telephone Company Exchange Building has an Art Deco facade dating to 1932.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1905-1953","architect_builder":"Stoddard, William L. - architect","architectural_style":"Commercial Style; Beaux Arts; Art Deco","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 17:11:42.499941-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/71/7193/47719371/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/03001272.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"86000789","name":"North Union Street Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/north-carolina/north-union-street-historic-district-86000789/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719371","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Street_North%E2%80%93Cabarrus_Avenue_Commercial_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18159011"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/cabarrus-county/union-street-north-cabarrus-avenue-commercial-historic-district-03001272/"}