{"nrhp_refnum":"72000957","name":"Kyle House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"234 Green St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fayetteville","county":"Cumberland County","state":"NC","lat":35.05592120800003,"lon":-78.87647812799997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1972-06-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick town house at 234 Green Street in Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina, built about 1855 for Scottish merchant James Kyle. It combines Italianate and Greek Revival design.","why_significant":"The nomination presents it as an impressive town house of imposing dignity that preserves mid-nineteenth century elegance amid heavily commercialized downtown Fayetteville. Its exterior and elaborately finished interior, blending Greek Revival and Italianate elements of the 1850s, remain essentially intact. It is also cited as an outstanding example of adaptive use as city offices.","narrative":"Built about 1855 on Green Street in Fayetteville, this two-story brick town house was the home of James Kyle, a prosperous Scottish merchant. Kyle had bought the former Academy Lot from the town in 1853. The house blends Italianate and Greek Revival design, with a flat-roofed porch of fluted Doric columns, an ornate cast-iron balustrade, bracketed cornices and a deck-on-hip roof. Inside, a center-hall plan holds rooms with heavy plaster cornices, elaborate ceiling medallions, varied mantels and a long single-flight stair with a mother-of-pearl star inlaid in the handrail. Kyle's grand-nephew William E. Kyle, a Confederate captain, later lived there and served as mayor of Fayetteville in the late 1870s. The city bought the house and an acre of land in 1963 and converted it to municipal offices. It was listed for its architecture and for surviving as a shaded, mid-nineteenth century residence in a heavily commercial downtown.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"James Kyle (builder/original owner)","architectural_style":"Italianate and Greek Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Owned by the City of Fayetteville since 1963 and converted at a cost of about $25,000 into offices for the mayor and a chamber for the city council; described as essentially intact.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:56.688153-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/4/7198/47719804/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/72000957.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72000957/6649a4126d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72000957/6649a4126d-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Apc106","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kyle_House_(15).JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Apc106</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kyle_House_(15).JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"99000779","name":"Fayetteville Downtown Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/north-carolina/fayetteville-downtown-historic-district-99000779/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719804","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18153286"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/cumberland-county/kyle-house-72000957/"}