{"nrhp_refnum":"04001394","name":"North Cherry Street Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"N. Cherry St. bounded by Fourteenth, Twenty-third and Seventeenth St., Lincoln and Pittsburg Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Winston-Salem","county":"Forsyth County","state":"NC","lat":36.101530820500074,"lon":-80.25474184521937,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2004-12-23","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Black","Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district along North Cherry Street and nearby streets north of downtown Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina, with houses, duplexes and apartment buildings built from about 1925 to the early 1950s. It is an extension of the Boston Cottages (Boston-Thurmond) neighborhood.","why_significant":"The district is described as a rare surviving mixed-income African American neighborhood in Winston-Salem, where many comparable neighborhoods have been demolished. It includes a cluster of five Y-stair brick apartment buildings, a type associated with the city's African American community and now rare. Its Craftsman bungalows and other period houses also represent typical middle-income housing of the era.","narrative":"North Cherry Street and several adjoining streets north of downtown Winston-Salem hold a compact neighborhood of about eighty buildings, nearly all residential, built from roughly 1925 into the early 1950s. It was once part of the larger Boston Cottages neighborhood but was cut off when University Parkway was built in the 1960s. Craftsman bungalows dominate, joined by Period Cottage, Minimal Traditional and Spanish Eclectic houses, duplexes, and small frame cottages built around 1940 for lower-income families. Six brick apartment buildings stand among them, five with the Y-shaped exterior staircase associated with African American communities in the city; fewer than eight such buildings remain citywide. A stone retaining wall from the 1925 Kimberley Park School, a surviving corner store, stone walls and mature trees give the streetscape its character. The district was listed for its role in Black ethnic heritage, community development and architecture, covering 1924 to 1954.","period_of_significance":"1924-1954","architect_builder":"unknown","architectural_style":"Bungalow/Craftsman, Colonial Revival, Period Cottage, Side-Gable Single-pile House, Y-plan Stair Brick Apartment, Minimal Traditional, Ranch","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Most buildings remain in residential use, with good integrity despite replacement siding, windows and porches. One historic corner store survives; the original Kimberley Park School burned in the 1960s and was replaced.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:54.696251-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/76/7202/47720276/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/04001394.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"86003442","name":"West End Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/north-carolina/west-end-historic-district-86003442/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720276","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Cherry_Street_Historic_District_(Winston-Salem,_North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19987330"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/forsyth-county/north-cherry-street-historic-district-04001394/"}