{"nrhp_refnum":"04000648","name":"Kinston Apartments","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1313 McAdoo St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Kinston","county":"Lenoir County","state":"NC","lat":35.27804374100006,"lon":-77.57809886531834,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2004-06-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A garden apartment complex of five brick buildings at 1313 McAdoo Street in the Grainger Hill neighborhood of Kinston, Lenoir County, North Carolina, completed around 1940 and set around a U-shaped courtyard across from Emma Webb Park.","why_significant":"The complex is argued to be locally significant under Criterion C for architecture. It combines traditional Colonial Revival forms with Art Moderne and Art Deco details, which set it apart in Kinston. It also follows the garden apartment or superblock model, which was uncommon in eastern North Carolina, and it retains a high level of integrity.","narrative":"Five two-story brick buildings make up this apartment complex on McAdoo Street in Kinston, North Carolina, finished around 1940 on about two and a half acres. They are arranged in a U around a courtyard of mature oaks and concrete walks, facing Emma Webb Park. The design is Colonial Revival, with hip and side-gable roofs and round-headed dormers, but Art Moderne and Art Deco touches appear in the lattice entry porches, projecting brick bands, octagonal-light front doors and geometric stair railings. The design is attributed to local architect A. Mitchell Wooten, based on oral history and similarities to his public housing projects. The complex follows the garden apartment, or superblock, idea of buildings in a park-like setting, a form uncommon in eastern North Carolina. It was listed for its architecture. A 2003 rehabilitation replaced windows with casements resembling the originals, and the buildings retain a high level of integrity. A newer community building is the only noncontributing resource.","period_of_significance":"Ca. 1940","architect_builder":"Wooten, A. Mitchell","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival; Art Moderne","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Rehabilitated in 2003; still used as multiple dwellings, and the buildings are described as virtually unchanged apart from replacement windows, kitchen cabinetry and flooring.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:54.095164-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/42/7210/47721042/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/04000648.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000648/d19f2c0ea4-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000648/d19f2c0ea4-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kinston_Apartments.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kinston_Apartments.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721042","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinston_Apartments","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19462788"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/lenoir-county/kinston-apartments-04000648/"}