{"nrhp_refnum":"04000583","name":"Clingman Avenue Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly along Clingman Ave., from Hillard Ave. to Haywood Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Asheville","county":"Buncombe County","state":"NC","lat":35.59019875800004,"lon":-82.56313618999997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2004-06-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Social History","Black"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A roughly seven-acre residential historic district just south of Patton Avenue on the west side of downtown Asheville, North Carolina. It contains 33 contributing and 7 non-contributing buildings, mostly small cottages and bungalows dating from 1896 to the 1940s.","why_significant":"The form describes a concentration of modest speculative rental housing that reflects the historic development of the neighborhood. The inventory traces occupants through city directories, showing the area shifting from white to African American residents and ownership, and the houses are mostly intact examples of cottage, bungalow and Queen Anne forms.","narrative":"Clingman Avenue Historic District occupies about seven acres just south of Patton Avenue on the west side of downtown Asheville. Small lots, some perched on hills and others dropping steeply to the rear, hold 33 contributing houses and outbuildings and seven non-contributing buildings, with eleven vacant lots between them. Most are one-story cottages or bungalows, including hip roof, front gable and L-plan types dating from 1896 to the 1940s, along with a few larger two-story Queen Anne houses such as the 1896 C. C. Brown House. Two brick cottages on Yarrow Street, built in 1943, are exceptions to the predominantly wood frame construction. Built mainly as speculative rental housing, the neighborhood was first occupied by white tenants, including railroad workers and carpenters. From about 1911 onward African American renters and owners increasingly took over the houses, working as porters, maids, cooks and drivers. Directory research documents these occupants house by house, and the surviving buildings preserve the area's early twentieth-century character.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Queen Anne, bungalow, hip roof cottages","criteria":[],"status_note":"Houses are in current single-family and secondary-structure use; eleven vacant lots exist within the district, and some buildings have altered siding or porches.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:53.223569-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/81/7192/47719281/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/04000583.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000583/67d054fa50-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000583/67d054fa50-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Bill Fitzpatrick","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Clingmon_Avenue_Historic_District_Wide.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Bill Fitzpatrick</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:Clingmon_Avenue_Historic_District_Wide.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719281","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clingman_Avenue_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17986541"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/buncombe-county/clingman-avenue-historic-district-04000583/"}