{"nrhp_refnum":"12001179","name":"Sunset Hills Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Bounded by W. Friendly, N. & S. Elam & W. Wright Aves., S. Tremont Dr., N. Aycock St. & Kensington Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Greensboro","county":"Guilford County","state":"NC","lat":36.07443768650006,"lon":-79.82240469262022,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2013-01-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district of approximately 280 acres west of downtown Greensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina, made up mostly of houses and their domestic outbuildings. It encompasses most of the Sunset Hills subdivision platted by A. K. Moore Realty Company beginning in the mid-1920s, plus small portions of four other subdivisions.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district is an outstanding local example of planned suburban residential development in the period just before the Great Depression, laid out on a grid with some curvilinear streets and retaining mature trees. It also presents the district as a collection of domestic architecture, dominated by Colonial Revival houses, spanning the 1920s through the post-World War II period.","narrative":"Sunset Hills is a residential district of about 280 acres west of downtown Greensboro, North Carolina, laid out by the A. K. Moore Realty Company beginning in the mid-1920s. Its streets were platted in late 1926 on a grid with some curving roads, and a thirteen-acre park runs along a stream near the center. Most of the houses are brick, and the district contains a wide range of forms, with Colonial Revival houses being the most common, followed by Period Cottages and Craftsman bungalows. Lorenzo S. Winslow worked on many of the early designs through the company's Better Built Homes service. Its significance lies in planned suburban development before the Great Depression, when the developer's company went bankrupt in 1934, and in its concentration of domestic architecture from the 1920s through the 1960s. The district retains many mature trees, historic garages, and stone and brick retaining walls.","period_of_significance":"1925-1965","architect_builder":"Winslow, Lorenzo S. (architect); Woodroof, Albert C. (architect)","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival; Tudor Revival; Bungalow/Craftsman; Period Cottage; Minimal Traditional; Cape Cod; English Cottage; Ranch; Split Level","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 17:11:42.652958-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/45/7179/47717945/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/12001179.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/12001179/c035e689f5-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/12001179/c035e689f5-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sylvan_and_Tremont_in_Sunset_Hills.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sylvan_and_Tremont_in_Sunset_Hills.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47717945","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunset_Hills_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21016240"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/guilford-county/sunset-hills-historic-district-12001179/"}