{"nrhp_refnum":"07001010","name":"Edenton Historic District (Boundary Increase II)","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Filberts Creek, W. Hicks St., Park Ave., the RR right of way, and the original Edenton Historic Disti","address_restricted":false,"city":"Edenton","county":"Chowan County","state":"NC","lat":36.06282848850006,"lon":-82.60939374795478,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2007-09-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development","Black","Commerce"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A boundary expansion and additional documentation for the Edenton Historic District, the county seat of Chowan County on the northern bank of Edenton Bay and the Albemarle Sound in northeastern North Carolina. The expansion adds areas to the east, north and west of the original district.","why_significant":"The nomination argues that the expansion area preserves the majority of the early town plan and a large body of resources associated with Edenton's African American community, including neighborhoods, churches, lodges, schools and an armory. It also extends the period of significance from the original district's end around 1923 to 1959, covering the town's development through the Depression, World War II and the closure of the Marine Corps Air Station. The architecture is presented as a continuum of styles from the late eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century.","narrative":"Edenton is a historic port town on the northern shore of Albemarle Sound in northeastern North Carolina, laid out on a grid that a 1769 survey by Claude Joseph Sauthier recorded and an 1872 Gaylord map later extended. This boundary expansion adds neighborhoods to the east, north and west of the original historic district, which was listed in 1973. The northern area holds most of the town's African American resources, including rows of houses, churches, lodges, schools, cemeteries and a National Guard Armory built in 1936-1937 on North Broad Street. The expansion also documents the years from 1923 to 1959, a period that includes the 1931 Post Office, WPA projects, the 1910 railroad trestle bridge across the sound, peanut and cotton industries, and the Marine Corps Air Station commissioned in 1943. Architectural styles range from late nineteenth-century vernacular cottages to World War II-era Minimal Traditional houses, bungalows and Colonial Revival residences. The nomination presents the expansion as a fuller record of the town's development.","period_of_significance":"Late eighteenth century - 1959","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Colonial Revival, Neoclassical Revival, Queen Anne, Craftsman bungalow, Tudor Revival, American Foursquare, Minimal Traditional, Ranch","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Pembroke Circle houses were damaged by Hurricane Isabel in 2003 and renovated, with some demolition, compromising their integrity for the expansion. The Marine Corps Air Station closed in 1959 and part of the property later served as an airport.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.737916-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/11/7196/47719611/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/07001010.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719611","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/chowan-county/edenton-historic-district-boundary-increase-ii-07001010/"}