{"nrhp_refnum":"10001093","name":"Stokesdale Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Fayetteville St, Umstead St, Lawson St, Moline St, Concord St, and Dunstan St","address_restricted":false,"city":"Durham","county":"Durham County","state":"NC","lat":35.98126684250005,"lon":-78.89737609703414,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2010-12-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development","Black"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district of about seventeen blocks southeast of downtown Durham, North Carolina, centered on Fayetteville Street, with houses, duplexes, churches, commercial buildings, an elementary school and a public library.","why_significant":"The district is argued to be significant for community development and planning and for African American ethnic history, as the southern and only remaining part of Durham's largest historically African American community, shaped by primary black institutions such as North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, Lincoln Hospital and North Carolina Central University. It is also significant for its largely intact early-twentieth-century architecture, ranging from triple-A and Foursquare houses to bungalows, Minimal Traditional and Ranch forms.","narrative":"Southeast of downtown Durham, the Stokesdale Historic District is a residential neighborhood of about seventeen blocks, centered on Fayetteville Street, that was platted as Stokesdale in 1912. It contains 203 primary contributing buildings, including houses, duplexes, churches, commercial buildings, and a school and library, built between 1912 and 1960. Its houses range from triple-A-roofed and Foursquare forms to bungalows, Colonial Revival, Period Cottages, Cape Cod, Minimal Traditional and Ranch homes, reflecting the economic mix of the residents. The neighborhood grew as the African American population of Durham expanded during the tobacco era, and it is regarded as the southern portion of the city's largest black community. Its development is tied to leaders of North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, Lincoln Hospital and North Carolina Central University, including John Merrick, Aaron McDuffie Moore and C. C. Spaulding, whose homes and institutions stood along Fayetteville Street. The district is valued for its planning and for the evidence it preserves of a self-sufficient black middle class in early twentieth-century Durham.","period_of_significance":"1912-1960","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, Mission/Spanish Colonial, Bungalow/Craftsman, triple-A, minimal traditional","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 17:11:42.524027-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/23/7177/47717723/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/10001093.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47717723","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stokesdale_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20713281"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/durham-county/stokesdale-historic-district-10001093/"}