{"nrhp_refnum":"100012193","name":"Livingstone College Historic District (Boundary Increase and Decrease)","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"701 W. Monroe Street","address_restricted":false,"city":"Salisbury","county":"Rowan County","state":"NC","lat":null,"lon":null,"geom_source":null},"listed_date":"2025-09-02","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture","Religion","Social History","Ethnic Heritage-Black"],"significance_levels":["state","local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district in Salisbury, Rowan County, North Carolina, made up of the Livingstone College campus and an adjoining residential area along West Monroe Street. The college moved to the site in 1882, and the surviving buildings date from the 1880s through the 1960s.","why_significant":"The district is tied to black higher education in the South after the Civil War. Livingstone was founded by a black church, the A.M.E. Zion Church, at a time when most black schools were started by white organizations. It is also associated with leaders such as Joseph Charles Price and James E. K. Aggrey, and it survives as a nearly intact black college community of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.","narrative":"Livingstone College and the neighborhood beside it form a historic district on a hill in Salisbury, North Carolina. The college moved here in 1882 from Concord after Joseph Charles Price raised money for it, and the district holds brick halls such as Dodge, Ballard, Carnegie, Hood and Goler, along with Moore's Chapel and modest Victorian and bungalow houses on West Monroe Street. A wide lawn, where the first black intercollegiate football game was played in 1892, separates the campus from the homes. The school was founded by the A.M.E. Zion Church, which made it unusual as a black institution started and run by black people. Its history is linked to Price, educator William Henry Goler, and missionary educator James E. K. Aggrey. Goler also worked as a contractor and helped build much of the surrounding area. The district survives as a largely intact college community of the late 1800s and early 1900s.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899, 1900-","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Victorian eclectic, primarily of a vaguely classical bent, with some later bungalows","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Marked as occupied, in excellent to fair condition, and used for education, religion and private residences.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:53.263976-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/4/7221/47722104/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/82003509.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722104","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/rowan-county/livingstone-college-historic-district-boundary-increase-and-decrease-100012193/"}