{"nrhp_refnum":"08000974","name":"Proximity Park Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Macon Ave., Howland Rd., Woodlink Rd., Charlotte St., and Sunset Trail","address_restricted":false,"city":"Asheville","county":"Buncombe County","state":"NC","lat":35.61546907500008,"lon":-82.54011176799997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2008-10-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district of roughly thirty-one acres on the north side of downtown Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina, at the foot of Sunset Mountain. It was platted in 1907 by the Proximity Park Company as a streetcar suburb and includes houses in several revival and Arts and Crafts styles, plus St. Mary's Church and its rectory.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district is significant as an early streetcar suburb of Asheville, developed beside the city's trolley lines and shaped by prominent local investors. It also argues the district is significant for its collection of domestic and institutional architecture, including Colonial Revival and Craftsman houses that predate the 1907 plat and examples of English-derived Craftsman, Gothic Revival, and other revival styles.","narrative":"Proximity Park sits on the slope of Sunset Mountain about two miles north of downtown Asheville. Its streets were laid out in 1907 by the Proximity Park Company on land that had been a nine-hole golf course, and lots were arranged on a tight grid so that residents could walk to nearby trolley stops. The district holds houses built mainly between about 1905 and 1930, including English-derived Craftsman bungalows associated with architect Richard Sharp Smith, Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, and Dutch Colonial Revival houses. St. Mary's Church, a Gothic Revival building at 337 Charlotte Street, and its Period Cottage rectory, both designed by Smith, anchor the institutional side of the district. Its significance rests on its role as an early streetcar suburb in Asheville and on the range of domestic and religious architecture it preserves from the early twentieth century.","period_of_significance":"Ca. 1900 - 1930","architect_builder":"Smith, Richard Sharp (architect); Westall, J.M. (builder)","architectural_style":"Craftsman/Bungalow; Colonial Revival; Spanish Colonial Revival; Tudor Revival; Gothic Revival; Italian Renaissance Revival; Classical Revival; Arts and Crafts; Period Cottage; Dutch Colonial Revival; Georgian Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":null,"vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:42.047784-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/63/7192/47719263/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/08000974.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08000974/c849394a6c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08000974/c849394a6c-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edgemont_Road,_Proximity_Park.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edgemont_Road,_Proximity_Park.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719263","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proximity_Park_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18157044"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/buncombe-county/proximity-park-historic-district-08000974/"}