{"nrhp_refnum":"04001524","name":"West Salem Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Business 40, Poplar, Salem Ave., Walnut, Shober, Hutton Sts, Granville Dr. and Beaumont St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Winston-Salem","county":"Forsyth County","state":"NC","lat":36.08364014300005,"lon":-80.24523563264482,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2005-01-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential and commercial historic district of roughly 600 properties southwest of downtown Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina, adjoining the museum village of Old Salem. It developed from the late eighteenth century through the mid-1950s on former Salem outlots.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district is significant for its role in the suburban and industrial growth of Salem and early Winston-Salem, with housing for mill and tobacco-industry workers alongside middle-income homes. It also contends the district has a significant collection of late nineteenth and early twentieth century house types, including I-houses, cottages, Queen Anne cottages and Craftsman bungalows, plus a notable group of neighborhood commercial buildings.","narrative":"Along the southwestern edge of Winston-Salem, West Salem grew out of farmland and outlots once belonging to the Moravian town of Salem. The Stockburger Farm, established in 1782, is the earliest resource identified, though its present appearance reflects alterations around 1900. Development accelerated after the 1843 Ackerman-Reich House on Poplar Street, with a main wave of construction from about 1865 through the 1950s. The district contains about forty single-pile cottages, around thirty gable ell cottages, twenty-six I-houses built from the 1880s to about 1910, and sixteen Queen Anne cottages. Workers' housing lines streets such as Albert, Wachovia and Apple. Later bungalows and Minimal Traditional houses extend the sequence. The district is regarded as one of the best collections of historic neighborhood commercial buildings in the city. It is significant for illustrating both working-class and middle-income residential forms tied to the textile and tobacco industries of Salem and Winston.","period_of_significance":"c.1865-1957","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late Victorian: Queen Anne; Bungalow / Craftsman; Colonial Revival; Period Cottage; Minimal Traditional","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 17:11:41.70745-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/50/7202/47720250/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/04001524.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720250","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Salem_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21016335"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/forsyth-county/west-salem-historic-district-04001524/"}