{"nrhp_refnum":"10001096","name":"East Sanford Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Bounded roughly by Charlotte Ave, Goldsboro Ave, N First St, S Second St, and S Eight St","address_restricted":false,"city":"Sanford","county":"Lee County","state":"NC","lat":35.479964746000064,"lon":-79.16845753399541,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2010-12-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district of about sixty-eight acres with 216 resources, located just east of downtown Sanford in Lee County, North Carolina, laid out on a grid plan from 1890s surveys.","why_significant":"The district is significant for its architecture under Criterion C, as a large middle-class and working-class neighborhood whose houses display simple versions of Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Craftsman, Period Cottage and Minimal Traditional styles. It also contains the East Sanford Graded School, designed by C. G. Sayre, and two churches. Most of its primary buildings contribute to its character, and the nomination notes the neighborhood's development from 1894 to 1960.","narrative":"Sanford's East Sanford Historic District is a grid of houses, a graded school and two churches east of the city's downtown, developed between 1894 and 1960. Surveys by county surveyor Francis Deaton in 1894 and 1899 opened the land into town lots, and the earliest known house, the Isaac H. Lutterloh House at 216 McIver Street, dates from about 1894. Most of the 127 primary buildings are one- or one-and-a-half-story frame houses built in simple versions of popular styles. Queen Anne, Colonial Revival and Craftsman details appear on the early and 1920s houses, while Period Cottage and Minimal Traditional houses date from the late 1930s through the 1950s. The East Sanford Graded School was designed by C. G. Sayre and built by Joe W. Stout. The district is significant as a well-preserved example of a middle-class and working-class neighborhood, with sixty-three percent of its total resources contributing to its architectural character.","period_of_significance":"1894-1960","architect_builder":"Sayre, C. G. (architect); Stout, Joe W. (contractor); Matthews, John Benjamin Jr. (builder); Walker, Robert T. (builder)","architectural_style":"Queen Anne; Colonial Revival; Bungalow/Craftsman; Period Cottage; Minimal Traditional","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Building conditions range from fair to excellent; many houses have had vinyl siding and other alterations, and some earlier houses have been moved or demolished.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:42.198047-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/27/7181/47718127/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/10001096.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/10001096/6f199dbc5b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/10001096/6f199dbc5b-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fifth_north_of_Maple,_Sanford.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fifth_north_of_Maple,_Sanford.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47718127","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Sanford_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19461488"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/lee-county/east-sanford-historic-district-10001096/"}