{"nrhp_refnum":"100007593","name":"Dallas Historic District (Boundary Increase)","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"All or portions of Balthis, North Cedar, West Church, North Hoffman, Lewis, West Main, North Maple, McSwain, North and South Oakland, South Pine, Puett, West Trade, West Wilkins and Worth Sts., Brookgreen and Queens Drs.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Dallas","county":"Gaston County","state":"NC","lat":35.3161,"lon":-81.1764,"geom_source":"wikidata"},"listed_date":"2022-04-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Education"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"The Dallas Historic District is a small Piedmont county-seat village centered on the courthouse square in Dallas, Gaston County, North Carolina. This boundary increase documents the Smyre-Pasour well-house, a brick and granite outbuilding behind the ca. 1847 Smyre-Pasour House on South Holland Street.","why_significant":"The nomination argues that the district's grouping of Greek Revival and nineteenth-century commercial and residential buildings around the courthouse square recalls the county seat's heyday. It states the Hoffman Hotel is perhaps the largest and best preserved mid-nineteenth century hotel in the state, and that the courthouse is architecturally significant. The well-house is argued to be one of the finest known ante-bellum examples of its type in North Carolina and a contributing building.","narrative":"Dallas, the Gaston County seat from 1847 to 1911, is a Piedmont village built around a shaded courthouse square. The small white stuccoed brick courthouse, rebuilt in 1875 within its 1847 walls, has a cast-iron balustrade on its double entrance stair and a square tower with a spike finial. Surrounding it are nineteenth-century commercial and residential buildings, including the Hoffman Hotel, a three-story brick building with forty-four rooms, and the Rhyne Store, built by Moses Rhyne with living quarters above. The Smyre-Pasour House, a one-story frame Greek Revival dwelling, dates to about 1847. Its outbuilding, a brick well-house with granite supports, was added in the boundary increase. The well-house is regarded as one of the finest surviving ante-bellum examples of its type in the state, and its restoration was funded in 1996.","period_of_significance":"1840-1900","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"In 1996 a grant was awarded to finance restoration of the well-house; the document describes it as deteriorated, with collapsed brickwork at the southwest and southeast corners.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.6441-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/95/7203/47720395/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/73001344.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/100007593/c93258a197-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/100007593/c93258a197-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Upstateherd","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gaston_County_Jail_-_Ca._1848.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Upstateherd</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:Gaston_County_Jail_-_Ca._1848.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"73001344","name":"Dallas Historic District (Additional Documentation)","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/north-carolina/dallas-historic-district-additional-documentation-73001344/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720395","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19461257"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/gaston-county/dallas-historic-district-boundary-increase-100007593/"}