{"nrhp_refnum":"09000331","name":"West Warren Street Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by W. Warren, McBrayer, Blanton, and Whisnant Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Shelby","county":"Cleveland County","state":"NC","lat":35.28880220500005,"lon":-81.54977391258126,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2009-05-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic residential district of about sixty acres on the west side of downtown Shelby, Cleveland County, North Carolina, containing 223 enumerated resources, of which 178 are contributing. It is largely residential with a few non-residential buildings, including the former Graham Elementary School of 1927-28.","why_significant":"The district is significant for its diverse collection of house types and styles from the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, including Late Victorian, Queen Anne, Craftsman, Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival and Ranch houses. It is regarded as a notable illustration of local and national architectural trends, with examples of Aladdin kit houses and architect-designed residences, and is of local significance under Criterion C.","narrative":"Located on the west side of downtown Shelby in Cleveland County, North Carolina, this roughly sixty-acre residential district was developed mostly between about 1885 and 1958. Its oldest surviving house is a late nineteenth-century farmhouse at 403 Whisnant Street, and its streets were laid out in part through the 1918 subdivision of J. F. Ware's tract. Houses span Queen Anne, Craftsman, Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival and Ranch styles. Two Aladdin Company kit houses stand on West Warren Street, and architect-designed residences by Q. E. Herman and V. W. Breeze and Associates are present. The district also includes El Nido, a Mission-style residence of 1921 designed by California architect Aurelia Swanson, and the 1927-28 Graham Elementary School, which was built to a standardized state design. The district is significant for the range of house types and styles it preserves, illustrating how a middle-class neighborhood grew alongside the expansion of Shelby's cotton and textile economy in the early twentieth century.","period_of_significance":"Ca. 1885-1958","architect_builder":"Aladdin Company (kit house builder); Augustus Branton (builder); Q. E. Herman (architect); Aurelia Swanson (architect); V. W. Breeze and Associates (architects)","architectural_style":"Late Victorian, Queen Anne, Craftsman, Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, Mission, Ranch","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Most resources are contributing; the former Graham Elementary School was decommissioned and converted to a private school, Twelve Oaks Academy, in 1979.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:40.958743-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/48/7196/47719648/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/09000331.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000331/e6cbedd625-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000331/e6cbedd625-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Upstateherd","credit_html":"Upstateherd, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:El_Nido,_Shelby,_NC.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719648","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Warren_Street_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18159224"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/cleveland-county/west-warren-street-historic-district-09000331/"}