{"nrhp_refnum":"07000295","name":"West High Street Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"407,409,415,501,503 and 507 W. High St., 106,107 and 110 Oak St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"High Point","county":"Guilford County","state":"NC","lat":35.95560059700006,"lon":-80.01120372399998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2007-04-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district of eleven contributing resources and one non-contributing building along the 400 and 500 blocks of West High Street and the 100 block of Oak Street in central High Point, Guilford County, North Carolina. The buildings date from 1879 to 1922 and include houses, outbuildings, a school and a factory.","why_significant":"The district is argued to reflect High Point's early settlement pattern, in which manufacturers and professionals lived beside their factories within walking distance of downtown. It contains several notable examples of Queen Anne and Colonial Revival houses and the oldest surviving school in the city, and its buildings are associated with early furniture-industry growth.","narrative":"Eleven historic buildings and one garden make up this compact district of about four acres three blocks west of Main Street in central High Point, North Carolina. Built between 1879 and 1922, the group combines houses, outbuildings, a school and a factory along the North Carolina Railroad tracks. Blair School, a frame building constructed in 1879, is the oldest surviving school in the city and was later moved on its site. The 1897 Brown House is regarded as one of the finest Queen Anne houses in High Point. The Fraser-Wilson House, completed in 1905 for furniture manufacturer Henry W. Fraser, is a large Colonial Revival residence with a Palladian dormer and sixteen Ionic columns on its porch. The district is significant for its concentration of homes built by early manufacturers who lived near their factories, reflecting the walking-based downtown development of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Its architecture also documents the stylistic range of High Point's first furniture boom.","period_of_significance":"1879-1922","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Bungalow/Craftsman, Late Victorian","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Contributing buildings are described as retaining their architectural character; the document also notes the American Legion building replaced an earlier house and that some items are in storage.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.169995-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/2/7206/47720602/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/07000295.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07000295/4a99179f62-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07000295/4a99179f62-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Red_Egg,_High_Point.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Red_Egg,_High_Point.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"90002197","name":"Oakwood Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/north-carolina/oakwood-historic-district-90002197/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720602","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_High_Street_Historic_District_(High_Point,_North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7985368"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/guilford-county/west-high-street-historic-district-07000295/"}