{"nrhp_refnum":"73001345","name":"Jamestown Historic District (Additional Documentation)","other_names":["See Also:Mendenhall,Richard,Plantation Buildings"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Both sides of U.S. 29A","address_restricted":false,"city":"Jamestown","county":"Guilford County","state":"NC","lat":35.99457309150006,"lon":-79.94531658387226,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1973-01-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Health/Medicine","Education","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district in Jamestown, Guilford County, North Carolina, made up of surviving nineteenth-century buildings along about a mile of the old stage road (now U.S. 29A-70A) near the Deep River. It covers roughly 70 acres and centers on early brick Quaker buildings.","why_significant":"The nomination calls Jamestown perhaps the most complete vestige in North Carolina of the Quaker contribution to the state's cultural, political and intellectual history. The Mendenhall family founded the town and led its Quaker community, which was known for progressive work in education, medicine and manumission. Slow growth after the 1800s allowed many early and mid-nineteenth-century buildings to survive.","narrative":"Jamestown grew up along the old stage road linking Virginia with Salisbury and Charlotte, and the historic district preserves about a mile of its nineteenth-century buildings beside what is now U.S. 29A-70A. At its core are three early brick buildings laid in Flemish bond: the Richard Mendenhall house, his 1824 store, and the small Friends' Meeting House with its cemetery. Around them are frame houses, including a Greek Revival house and medical school built by Dr. Shubal Coffin and the Lindsay house and medical school. The district is tied to the Mendenhall family, who founded the town and led its Quaker community. Residents ran night teaching, a girls' school, a law school and private medical schools, and took part in the North Carolina Manumission Society. The railroad arrived in 1856, but later growth went to High Point and Greensboro, which left the old buildings largely intact.","period_of_significance":"19th Century","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Pennsylvania-influenced Quaker style brick buildings, with a Greek Revival house (Dr. Shubal Coffin's House)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition is marked good and altered; the district is mostly private residences, with some occupied and some unoccupied properties.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:57.239839-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/73001345.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720568","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamestown_Historic_District_(Jamestown,_North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19462592"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/guilford-county/jamestown-historic-district-additional-documentation-73001345/"}