{"nrhp_refnum":"08001413","name":"Hot Springs Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Bridge St., Andrews Ave. S. and Meadow Ln.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Hot Springs","county":"Madison County","state":"NC","lat":35.89160335400004,"lon":-82.8284615006634,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2009-02-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Commerce"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A roughly nine-acre commercial and civic historic district in the center of Hot Springs, Madison County, North Carolina, centered on Bridge Street and part of South Andrews Avenue, with buildings from the late 19th to mid-20th century.","why_significant":"The district is an intact grouping of Hot Springs buildings from the late nineteenth through mid-twentieth centuries, reflecting the town's commercial core. Its story is tied to the nearby mineral springs resort, tourism, and transportation by turnpike and railroad. The form states local significance and includes work by Richard Sharp Smith and carpenter Frederick Gorenflo.","narrative":"Hot Springs Historic District covers about nine acres at the center of Hot Springs, North Carolina, on both sides of Spring Creek and along Bridge Street. It holds one- to three-story brick, fieldstone and concrete block commercial and government buildings, two houses and a church, mostly set in contiguous rows with flat roofs and parapets. Notable examples include the 1900 Gothic Revival Dorland Memorial Presbyterian Church, designed by Asheville architect Richard Sharp Smith, the ca. 1890 Queen Anne Gorenflo House, the fieldstone Gentry Hardware of 1946, and the mid-1950s Tweed's Court motor lodge. Most early wood buildings were replaced by brick ones in the 1920s. The district reflects the town's growth around the mineral springs resort, which developed along the Buncombe Turnpike and later the railroad that arrived in 1882. Together the buildings form an intact grouping from the late nineteenth through mid-twentieth centuries, with fourteen contributing buildings and one contributing structure.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Richard Sharp Smith (Dorland Memorial Presbyterian Church); Frederick Gorenflo (local carpenter); Zeke Goforth (reported church builder); Lawson Brothers (stonemasons)","architectural_style":"Commercial Style, Queen Anne, Bungalow/Craftsman, Gothic Revival (also Romanesque Revival influence)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Retains historic integrity despite the loss of a few historic buildings and some alterations; includes one vacant lot. Several buildings remain in commercial, government and religious use.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:53.56637-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/57/7211/47721157/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/08001413.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721157","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Springs_Historic_District_(Hot_Springs,_North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5910459"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/madison-county/hot-springs-historic-district-08001413/"}