{"nrhp_refnum":"73001330","name":"Fayetteville Women's Club and Oval Ballroom","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"224 Dick St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fayetteville","county":"Cumberland County","state":"NC","lat":35.04828461000005,"lon":-78.87799136499996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1973-02-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Art","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story Federal town house and a small freestanding oval ballroom at 225 Dick Street in Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina, together in Heritage Square. The house was probably built shortly after 1798 by Duncan McLeran; the ballroom is said to date from 1830.","why_significant":"The house was once the North Carolina office of the Bank of the United States and later the home of painter Elliott Daingerfield, and it has notable Federal exterior woodwork overlaid with Victorian changes. The Oval Ballroom is described as one of the finest examples of the Adam style in North Carolina, with exceptional plaster ornament. Together with the nearby Nimocks House, they represent fine Federal architecture in nineteenth-century Fayetteville.","narrative":"Heritage Square in Fayetteville holds two linked buildings on Dick Street: a large Federal town house and a small oval ballroom. The frame house, probably built soon after 1798 by merchant Duncan McLeran, has a two-story columned porch, a Palladian doorway with delicate Federal detail, and Victorian additions made in the late nineteenth century. From 1820 it served as the North Carolina office of the Bank of the United States, with the vault in the basement. Later it was the adolescent home of painter Elliott Daingerfield. The Oval Ballroom, an elongated octagon about twenty by thirty feet, is traditionally dated to 1830 and was moved from beside the Halliday house, since demolished. Its interior has fluted Ionic pilasters and an elaborate plaster cornice and ceiling medallion, making it one of the finest Adam-style rooms in the state. Both buildings are maintained by the local women's club.","period_of_significance":"after 1798-before 1815","architect_builder":"Duncan McLeran (probable builder of the house)","architectural_style":"Federal with Victorian alterations; Adam style (Oval Ballroom)","criteria":[],"status_note":"The club maintains the house in excellent repair. Its basement is used for meetings and the upper floors are rented to young working women. The ballroom was moved to its present site and preserved.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:57.549536-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/14/7198/47719814/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/73001330.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73001330/52e384acd7-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73001330/52e384acd7-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"Kelliejojo","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oval-Ballroom-chimney.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Kelliejojo</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oval-Ballroom-chimney.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719814","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritage_Square_(Fayetteville,_North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5739051"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/cumberland-county/fayetteville-womens-club-and-oval-ballroom-73001330/"}