{"nrhp_refnum":"04000907","name":"Nissen Building (Boundary Increase)","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"314 W. Fourth St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Winston-Salem","county":"Forsyth County","state":"NC","lat":36.09760359000006,"lon":-80.24771271399999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2004-08-25","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Transportation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state","local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story, 6,174 square foot addition built in 1969 at 314 West Fourth Street, Winston-Salem, attached to the west side of the 18-story Nissen Building (1926). It was added to the listed property through a boundary increase.","why_significant":"The original 1983 listing mistakenly left out the addition because of a resource counting error and an incorrect boundary assessment. The addition is physically connected to the Nissen Building and is under common ownership, so it should have been part of the listed property. Its low scale does not significantly affect the historic integrity of the taller building.","narrative":"At 314 West Fourth Street in Winston-Salem, a one-story addition built in 1969 abuts the west wall of the 18-story Nissen Building, which dates to 1926. The addition measures about seventy-seven by eighty-five feet, with a flat roof, painted brick veneer over concrete walls, and aluminum-frame storefronts with green canvas awnings facing Fourth Street. A doorway links it to the Nissen elevator lobby at the building's southwest corner. When the Nissen Building was listed in 1983, the addition was left out because of a resource counting error and an incorrect boundary assessment. Because the two structures are interconnected and share common ownership, the addition was treated as an integral part of the listed building. The 2004 boundary increase corrected the record by adding the addition and its lot, parcel 001N of Block 0078, to the property. Its low scale and placement against a side wall mean it does not significantly affect the integrity of the older tower.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"The interior connection to the Nissen Building's elevator lobby remains today; the addition is under common ownership with the main building.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:52.689825-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/46/7202/47720246/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/04000907.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000907/f9a0e3b16c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000907/f9a0e3b16c-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Chuck Allen","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nissen_Building,_Winston_Salem.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Chuck Allen</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nissen_Building,_Winston_Salem.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"100008467","name":"Downtown Winston-Salem Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/north-carolina/downtown-winston-salem-historic-district-100008467/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720246","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissen_Building","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14708102"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/forsyth-county/nissen-building-boundary-increase-04000907/"}