{"nrhp_refnum":"05000437","name":"Summerfield Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"4105-4210 Oak Ridge Rd. and 7702-7804 Summerfield Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Summerfield","county":"Guilford County","state":"NC","lat":36.206849755000064,"lon":-79.90551482954642,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2005-05-18","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"The Summerfield Historic District is a village crossroads district in northwestern Guilford County, North Carolina, about eleven miles north of Greensboro, made up mostly of residences and a few commercial buildings along Oak Ridge Road and Summerfield Road. The area is described as having grown from American Indian trading paths into a farming community's commercial center.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district is significant as the commercial center of a Guilford County farming community in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, built by merchants serving surrounding farmers. It also argues for architectural significance through a mix of styles, including the Greek Revival Alexander Strong Martin House, the corbelled brick Brittain Store, the pre-Civil War Charles H. Willson House, and the Queen Anne Brittain House.","narrative":"Summerfield is a crossroads village in northwestern Guilford County, eleven miles north of Greensboro, where Summerfield Road meets Oak Ridge Road. Its core was built by shopkeepers, doctors and pharmacists serving surrounding farmers. Two brick stores built by George J. Smith in the 1870s anchor the intersection, the Brittain Store with corbelled brickwork and blind-arch friezes. On the southwest corner stands the Alexander Strong Martin House, a two-story brick Greek Revival house dating to about 1835 or earlier. Henry Clay Brittain, a merchant, built a large frame Queen Anne house between 1898 and 1903, milling its lumber on a sawmill he set up on his property. The district includes residences from the nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth century, and its cohesion comes from its size, setbacks, old trees and surrounding farmland still visible behind most buildings.","period_of_significance":"c. 1835-1955","architect_builder":"George J. Smith (builder of the brick stores); no other architects or builders are known","architectural_style":"Greek Revival; Queen Anne; Romanesque; Bungalow/Craftsman; Colonial Revival; Minimal Traditional; Period Cottage","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Fifty-five resources, nearly sixty percent contributing; the Brittain House is now offices of a forestry supplier and the Brittain Store was restored and dedicated as the Summerfield Town Hall in 2000","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.771348-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/98/7205/47720598/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/05000437.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720598","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summerfield_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20713444"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/guilford-county/summerfield-historic-district-05000437/"}