{"nrhp_refnum":"79003339","name":"Page-Walker Hotel","other_names":["Walker Hotel"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"119 Ambassador St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cary","county":"Wake County","state":"NC","lat":35.78869380000003,"lon":-78.77925054699995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-05-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Transportation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-and-one-half story brick hotel at 119 Ambassador Street in Cary, Wake County, North Carolina, built about 1868 beside the Southern and Seaboard rail lines to serve railroad passengers.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it recalls the role of the railroad in Cary's early growth and is a rare, little-altered small-town example of Second Empire style. It is also the only surviving Cary building tied to Allison Francis Page, the town's founder and father of ambassador Walter Hines Page.","narrative":"Built about 1868 beside the Southern and Seaboard railroad tracks in downtown Cary, this brick hotel was meant to serve rail passengers. It rises two and a half stories under a steep mansard roof with ten pedimented dormers, and its handmade red brick walls carry Italianate wooden trim. Tradition credits Allison Francis Page, a lumberman and contractor who founded Cary and served as its first mayor, with building it. The Walker family later ran the hotel, which took their name, until about 1916. Afterward it became apartments and, in 1941, a single-family home. Renovations in the 1940s and 1970s changed the porch, balconies and some openings, yet the original hotel floor plan remains easy to read. The nomination presents the building as a reminder of the railroad's part in Cary's growth, a rare small-town example of Second Empire design, and the only remaining Cary building linked to the Page family, including Walter Hines Page, later ambassador to Great Britain.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"(said to be) Allison Francis Page","architectural_style":"Second Empire, with Italianate detailing","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Occupied as a private residence at the time of nomination; renovations described as sensitive and minimal.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:57.292352-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/31/7225/47722531/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/79003339.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79003339/174196f99c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79003339/174196f99c-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 2.5","author":"Yassie","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Page-WalkerHotel.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Yassie</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 2.5</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Page-WalkerHotel.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722531","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page-Walker_Hotel","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4385582"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/wake-county/page-walker-hotel-79003339/"}