{"nrhp_refnum":"12000571","name":"Randolph Street Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"100-200 blk. of Randolph St., & 10 W. Colonial Dr.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Thomasville","county":"Davidson County","state":"NC","lat":35.88108772950005,"lon":-80.07982579062241,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2012-08-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Transportation"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A linear historic district of seven primary resources along Randolph Street and West Colonial Drive in Thomasville, Davidson County, North Carolina, comprising houses, a church, industrial buildings and a railroad depot built roughly 1900 to 1951.","why_significant":"The district is argued to illustrate the interrelationship of domestic life, transportation, industry and religion in a late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century railroad and industrial town. It is said to contain good examples of Colonial Revival, Italianate, Craftsman bungalow and Neo-Gothic styles, and a typical early-twentieth-century railroad depot. Its industries, including the Standard Chair Company and Gray Concrete Pipe Company, are tied to the town's furniture and building-materials trades.","narrative":"Along Randolph Street, just south of Thomasville's historic downtown, the district gathers seven primary resources built between about 1900 and 1951. They include three houses, a church, two industrial buildings and a railroad depot, set in a pattern where factory owners lived beside their works and middle-class workers' homes stood nearby. The Hinkle Family House, built around 1900, is the oldest building, and the Frank S. Lambeth House of 1908 is a large Colonial Revival dwelling tied to the Standard Chair Company. The Arthur J. Kepley House, dating to about 1928, is a characteristic 1920s bungalow. Memorial Methodist Church, completed in 1951 to designs by Charlotte architect Marvin W. Helms, is a stone Neo-Gothic building. The Carolina and Yadkin Valley Railroad depot, built in 1913 and enlarged in 1926 and 1936, reflects the second rail line that supported local industry. The district has a high degree of integrity, and its period of significance runs to 1962.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1900-1962","architect_builder":"Helms, Marvin W. (architect)","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival; Bungalow/Craftsman; Late Victorian; Neo-Gothic","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Most buildings are in good to excellent condition and none have been moved; the Hinkle Family House and Lambeth House remain in family ownership and occupancy.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:40.690411-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/53/7199/47719953/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/12000571.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/12000571/1da4a9be48-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/12000571/1da4a9be48-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Randolph_and_Colonial,_Thomasville.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Randolph_and_Colonial,_Thomasville.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719953","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randolph_Street_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18393449"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/davidson-county/randolph-street-historic-district-12000571/"}