{"nrhp_refnum":"82003457","name":"Dixon-Leftwich-Murphy House","other_names":["Leftwich House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"507 Church St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Greensboro","county":"Guilford County","state":"NC","lat":36.07966746900007,"lon":-79.78675363999997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-09-23","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick Gothic Revival house with Italianate details at 507 Church Street in Greensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina, built between 1870 and 1879 (probably 1870-1875) for merchant Martin C. Dixon and his wife Mary. The builder is unknown.","why_significant":"The house is one of three early postbellum brick structures surviving in Greensboro and a rare North Carolina example of Gothic Revival design. It reflects the town's growth after the Civil War and its upper-class residential development along Church Street. It is also tied to Martin Dixon, Col. Alexander Leftwich and Thomas J. Murphy, a longtime Greensboro mayor and civic figure.","narrative":"Set on a knoll north of downtown Greensboro, this two-story brick house at 507 Church Street was built between 1870 and 1879 for merchant Martin C. Dixon and his wife Mary. It has a cruciform hipped roof with steep gables, metal cresting, paired one-over-one windows and pointed-arch attic windows. Gothic Revival and Italianate moldings run throughout the interior. A brick addition and a later frame addition were made over the years. The house is described as one of three important early postbellum brick structures surviving in Greensboro and a rare North Carolina example of its style. Later owners included entrepreneur Col. Alexander H. Leftwich and his daughter Annie with her husband Thomas J. Murphy, an attorney who served several terms as Greensboro mayor. The house became apartments in the 1950s. At the time of listing it was being renovated for business use, with removed porches to be replaced by compatible designs.","period_of_significance":"1870-1879","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Gothic Revival with Italianate details","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Divided into apartments in 1954 and later undergoing renovation and restoration for business use, with the aim of returning it to its late nineteenth century configuration.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:58.606619-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/88/7205/47720588/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/82003457.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82003457/4153aecc9a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82003457/4153aecc9a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Rhpotter","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dixon-Leftwich-Murphy_House_(Greensboro,_North_Carolina)_1.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Rhpotter</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:Dixon-Leftwich-Murphy_House_(Greensboro,_North_Carolina)_1.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"91002006","name":"Fisher Park Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/north-carolina/fisher-park-historic-district-91002006/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720588","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixon-Leftwich-Murphy_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19461350"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/guilford-county/dixon-leftwich-murphy-house-82003457/"}