{"nrhp_refnum":"06000689","name":"DeGraffenried Park Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Rougly bounded by Neuse Blvd., Fort Totten Dr., Trent Rd. and Chattawka Ln.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New Bern","county":"Craven County","state":"NC","lat":35.107610015000034,"lon":-77.06027770380184,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2006-08-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A compact six-block residential subdivision about one mile west of central New Bern, Craven County, North Carolina, platted in 1926. It contains 87 contributing and 22 noncontributing resources, mostly houses and garages built between 1926 and 1956.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the district as a well-preserved planned suburb with a consistent mix of Colonial Revival, Tudor and Jacobethan Revival, Craftsman and Ranch houses. Its original landscape and street design, including wide grassed medians, concrete sidewalks and urn-globed light poles, adds to its character. Development ran in three phases from 1927 to 1956, and the form says the district retains a high degree of integrity.","narrative":"DeGraffenried Park is a six-block residential subdivision about a mile west of central New Bern, platted in 1926. Its grid of large lots holds fifty-seven houses, most built between 1926 and 1956, along with many matching detached garages, some with upper-level apartments that were rented to military families during and after World War II. Houses are set well back behind broad lawns and unusually wide grassed medians. Concrete sidewalks and four original concrete light poles with urn-shaped globes line Queen Anne Lane. Early development before the Depression produced mostly two-story brick Colonial Revival houses. Later construction added a Jacobethan Revival house designed by architect Raymond Fuson, a rare Craftsman house, Tudor cottages, bungalows, wartime Colonial Revival cottages and postwar Cape Cods and Ranch houses. Remnants of an old pecan orchard survive in the northern blocks. The district was listed because it keeps its original plan, landscape and architecture largely intact, giving a coherent picture of suburban growth in New Bern from the late 1920s through the mid-1950s.","period_of_significance":"1926-1956","architect_builder":"Raymond Fuson (architect, Lupton House); contractors B. G. Hines and Jack Aberly","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, Bungalow/Craftsman, Modern Movement","criteria":[],"status_note":"Current function remains domestic, single dwellings with secondary structures. Most contributing houses are described as generally unaltered, though some have replacement windows or vinyl siding.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:53.794393-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/72/7197/47719772/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/06000689.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000689/385919364b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000689/385919364b-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Tradewinds","credit_html":"Tradewinds, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DeGraffenried_Park_Historic_District.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719772","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeGraffenried_Park_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18149282"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/craven-county/degraffenried-park-historic-district-06000689/"}