{"nrhp_refnum":"11000975","name":"West Selma Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Bounded by W. Railroad, N. Brevard, W. Richardson & N. Pollock Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Selma","county":"Johnston County","state":"NC","lat":35.54036593700005,"lon":-78.28716371084553,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2011-12-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district of about ninety acres, predominantly residential, west of downtown Selma in Johnston County, North Carolina, containing 273 resources, about eighty-one percent of which contribute to its significance.","why_significant":"The district is significant under Criterion C for architecture, containing a wide array of domestic styles from the late nineteenth century to 1961, including Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Craftsman, Period Cottage, Minimal Traditional and Ranch houses, along with I-houses and Triple-A forms. The nomination states it reflects Selma's development as a railroad hub and later center of government and commerce, and that it maintains a high degree of architectural integrity.","narrative":"West Selma is a residential district of about ninety acres on the west side of downtown Selma, a railroad town in North Carolina's Coastal Plain. Its 273 resources are mostly houses built between about 1880 and 1961, with a smaller number of churches, commercial buildings, a former women's club and a historic cemetery. The district takes its character from the railroad, which brought settlers and tastes to the town after the Atlantic Coast Line line arrived in 1892. Its houses display a broad sequence of styles, from the Queen Anne dwellings of the 1890s, such as the 1897 Etheridge House, to transitional Queen Anne-Colonial Revival houses and the Southern Colonial William E. Smith House of about 1912. Later examples include Georgian Revival and Period Cottage houses. The district is significant for this architectural range and for the high degree of integrity its buildings retain, which is why it was listed for its architecture.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1880-1961","architect_builder":"S. J. Atkinson (architect); William Preston Rose (architect)","architectural_style":"Queen Anne, Gothic Revival, Colonial Revival, Craftsman, Period Cottage, Minimal Traditional, Ranch, I-house, Triple-A","criteria":["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 17:11:40.998278-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/62/7209/47720962/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/11000975.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11000975/babf7b86b8-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11000975/babf7b86b8-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Massey_south_of_Richardson,_Selma.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Massey_south_of_Richardson,_Selma.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720962","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Selma_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22061133"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/johnston-county/west-selma-historic-district-11000975/"}