{"nrhp_refnum":"79001704","name":"Atkins, S. G., House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"346 Atkins St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Winston-Salem","county":"Forsyth County","state":"NC","lat":36.09243498500007,"lon":-80.22887798399995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-07-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Black","Education","Social History"],"significance_levels":["state","local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story frame house at 346 Atkins Street in Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina, built about 1893 by Dr. Simon Green Atkins as the first house in the Columbian Heights neighborhood.","why_significant":"It was the home of Simon Green Atkins, founder of Slater Industrial Academy (later Winston-Salem State University). It was the first house built in Columbian Heights, a community Atkins envisioned so middle-class Black residents could own homes and so the school could attract professional teachers. The form cites community planning and social/humanitarian significance.","narrative":"Dr. Simon Green Atkins built this two-story frame house at 346 Atkins Street in Winston-Salem around 1893. It was the first house in the Columbian Heights neighborhood. Atkins founded Slater Industrial Academy in 1892, later Winston-Salem State University, and served as its president until shortly before his death in 1934. He planned Columbian Heights so middle-class Black families could own homes instead of living in the overcrowded area traditionally assigned to the Black population, and so the struggling school could attract professional teachers. He was also involved in founding Columbian Heights High School and the Slater School Hospital, the first for Black residents of the city. The house is three bays wide, with a central gable, a hip-roofed porch, a bay window on the north side, six-over-six sash windows and a brick foundation. Rear additions were made, and a 1951 conversion to apartments removed most of the original interior fabric.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"Dr. Simon Green Atkins (builder, per the statement of significance)","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied; converted to apartments in 1951 and still used as apartments at the time of the form, with the interior extensively remodeled.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:56.759679-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/31/7178/47717831/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/79001704.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79001704/17dfc6f5de-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79001704/17dfc6f5de-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Pollje15","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:S.G._Atkins_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Pollje15</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:S.G._Atkins_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47717831","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._G._Atkins_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19460307"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/forsyth-county/atkins-s-g-house-79001704/"}