{"nrhp_refnum":"07000296","name":"Haymount Historic District (Boundary Increase)","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"100-200 blks Bradford Ave., 801 Hay St., 801, 802, 806 Arsenal Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fayetteville","county":"Cumberland County","state":"NC","lat":35.05591268850006,"lon":-78.89194572182332,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2007-04-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Health/Medicine"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A boundary increase to the Haymount Historic District in Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina, covering thirteen primary buildings centered on Bradford Avenue, including nine houses, Highsmith Hospital, a nurses' residence now the Museum of the Cape Fear, a church, and an apartment building. The buildings date from ca. 1847 to 1948.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the area is one of Fayetteville's oldest and most intact residential areas and that it adds most of the remaining historic resources of the original Haymount suburb. It cites Highsmith Hospital's medical history as the basis for Criterion A and the range of Queen Anne, Colonial Revival and Gothic Revival houses and churches as the basis for Criterion C. The area also includes land once part of the U.S. Arsenal.","narrative":"Haymount's Bradford Avenue section holds thirteen buildings dating from about 1847 to 1948, centered on a street that once led into the U.S. Arsenal built in 1838 on Haymount Hill. The arsenal was destroyed by General W. T. Sherman in 1865, and its distinctive brownstone was later reused in walls and yards along the street. The houses include the McGary-Small House, begun about 1847, and the McMillan-Rankin House, built about 1851 and remodeled later in the century. The 1897 E. A. Poe House is a large two-story Queen Anne frame house built by local builder Ruffin Vaughn. Several Colonial Revival houses were built in the 1910s and 1920s for Fayetteville businessmen and professionals. Highsmith Hospital, completed in 1926 to a design by Charles Hartmann of Greensboro, served the city as its only community hospital until about 1960. The district also includes St. Patrick's Catholic Church, completed in 1936, and the twelve-unit Devereux Apartments, built in 1940.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1847-ca. 1957","architect_builder":"Hartmann, Charles (architect); Vaughn, Ruffin (builder)","architectural_style":"Queen Anne; Colonial Revival; Gothic Revival; Beaux Arts modified Spanish Colonial Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Highsmith Hospital was modernized about 1970 and closed as a hospital in 1986, after which it became the Cumberland County Mental Health Center; the nurses' residence was remodeled into the Museum of the Cape Fear.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:42.656506-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/83/7175/47717583/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/07000296.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07000296/ebb42300c7-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07000296/ebb42300c7-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Apc106","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saint_Michael%27s_Catholic_Church_(2).JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Apc106</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:Saint_Michael%27s_Catholic_Church_(2).JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47717583","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymount_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18207680"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/cumberland-county/haymount-historic-district-boundary-increase-07000296/"}