{"nrhp_refnum":"05001032","name":"Seabord Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Bounded by Main, Church and Washington Sts, and NC 186","address_restricted":false,"city":"Seaboard","county":"Northampton County","state":"NC","lat":36.48758817600006,"lon":-77.44263387008378,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2005-09-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Transportation","Community Planning and Development","Literature"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A roughly ninety-acre historic district in the railroad town of Seaboard, Northampton County, North Carolina, containing 134 resources (commercial buildings, houses, churches, a school and railroad-related and agricultural structures) dating from 1874 to 1955.","why_significant":"The district holds the greatest concentration of Seaboard buildings that kept their integrity from the town's period of greatest economic prosperity. It is nominated under Criteria A, B and C for architecture, transportation, community planning and development, and literature. It is also tied to author Bernice Kelly Harris, and its buildings show late nineteenth to mid-twentieth century styles.","narrative":"Seaboard is a small rural railroad town in north-central Northampton County, North Carolina, about six miles south of the Virginia line. Its historic district covers roughly ninety acres bounded by Main, Church and Washington Streets and NC Highway 186, and includes 134 resources, of which 112 contribute. The railroad corridor forms the northern edge of the town core. The district includes brick commercial buildings on Clay Street, a gas station, a mid-twentieth century peanut drying and storage complex, three brick churches, and the 1927 Seaboard School. Houses range from exuberant late nineteenth century Queen Anne examples to foursquares, Colonial Revival and Craftsman dwellings, bungalows, and ranch houses. The district represents the period from 1874 to 1955, when Seaboard was most prosperous. It was recognized for its architecture, its transportation and planning history, and its connection to writer Bernice Kelly Harris. The African American neighborhood east of the boundary was excluded because its buildings lost integrity.","period_of_significance":"1874-1955","architect_builder":"R. H. Riedel, architect; Godwin W. Draper, architect","architectural_style":"Late Victorian/Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, Bungalow/Craftsman","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"The 1927 Seaboard School shows the effects of prolonged neglect, but the owner has stabilized it with the goal of rehabilitating it. Seaboard Town Hall now occupies a former drug store building, and the former depot site is now vacant space.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:53.096916-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/91/7215/47721591/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/05001032.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05001032/36f151554c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05001032/36f151554c-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Frank Womble","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bethlehem_Baptist_Church_Seaboard_NC.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Frank Womble</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bethlehem_Baptist_Church_Seaboard_NC.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721591","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seaboard_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20713275"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/northampton-county/seabord-historic-district-05001032/"}