{"nrhp_refnum":"06000690","name":"Raeford Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Jackson St., E. Central Ave., the Aberdeen and Rockfish, and E and W Elwood Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Raeford","county":"Hoke County","state":"NC","lat":34.97808491050006,"lon":-79.22239242405071,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2006-08-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Transportation","Community Planning and Development","Commerce"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A roughly twenty-acre historic district in Raeford, Hoke County, North Carolina, covering the downtown commercial core, the railroad corridor and a section of East Central Avenue lined with houses. It holds 63 resources dating from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century.","why_significant":"The district holds the greatest concentration of commercial and institutional buildings in Raeford that kept their integrity and date from the period of significance. Its buildings show the styles and vernacular forms of a small railroad town during its time of greatest prosperity. The railroad depot, banks, shops, service stations and houses of the families behind the commercial rise reflect the town's growth.","narrative":"Raeford's historic district covers about twenty acres of the Hoke County town in North Carolina's Sandhills. It centers on North and South Main Street, which the Aberdeen & Rockfish Railroad divides, and includes a stretch of East Central Avenue with houses. Of 63 resources, 50 contribute to the district's character. Commercial buildings include the three-story Bank of Raeford and Page Trust Building, the brick railroad depot that replaced a wooden one around 1910, and smaller shops such as Kinlaw's Jewelry Store, built after a 1925 fire. Service stations from the 1920s to 1950s show how automobiles shaped the downtown, and the White Deer sculptures sit atop Graham's Service Station. The houses range from Queen Anne examples like the 1903 B. R. and Margaret Gatlin House to the Neoclassical McLauchlin House of 1905, now a local history museum. Together they illustrate the growth of a railroad town between 1897 and 1956.","period_of_significance":"1897-1956","architect_builder":"Marcus W. Dew (contractor, Hallie and Margaret Gatlin House); J.B. Thomas (built McDonald's Esso gas station, 1937)","architectural_style":"Late Victorian/Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Commercial Style, Classical Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"The J. W. and Christina McLauchlin House now serves as a local history museum and research center. Many commercial buildings are still in business use.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:54.244348-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/94/7208/47720894/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/06000690.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000690/57dcab2950-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000690/57dcab2950-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Jerrye &amp; Roy Klotz, MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RAEFORD_HISTORIC_DISTRICT,_HOKE_COUNTY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jerrye &amp;amp; Roy Klotz, MD</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RAEFORD_HISTORIC_DISTRICT,_HOKE_COUNTY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720894","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raeford_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19987720"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/hoke-county/raeford-historic-district-06000690/"}