{"nrhp_refnum":"82003460","name":"Kilby Hotel","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"627 E. Washington St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"High Point","county":"Guilford County","state":"NC","lat":35.96137025100006,"lon":-80.00026392499996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-04-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Black","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story brick hotel with ground-floor shops at 627 East Washington Street in High Point, Guilford County, North Carolina. The form gives 1910 as the date, while the continuation sheet says it was built around 1913 by John and Nannie Kilby.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is a well-preserved example of early twentieth century commercial architecture in Piedmont North Carolina and a rare survivor in a city that has lost much of its early commercial building stock. It is also associated with three locally prominent Black business and professional families: the Kilbys, Martins and McElraths. Family members have run it for several generations, and it served as a social and economic center of the Washington Street area.","narrative":"Built in the early twentieth century on East Washington Street in High Point, this three-story brick hotel holds two shops on its ground floor, a barber shop and a beauty shop, with rooms above. Round-arched windows with decorative hoods mark the upper stories, and a shallow bracketed canopy shelters the storefronts. Inside, wide halls with arched openings, identical stairs lit by skylights, and plain plastered rooms reflect typical hotel design of the period. John and Nannie Kilby, leaders of High Point's Black community, built it. Nannie Kilby invested in real estate and acquired about thirty houses nearby. Her daughter Ora Martin later ran the hotel, and it passed down through the family to a fourth generation of operators. It served as lodging for permanent residents and Black business visitors and as a neighborhood social center. It is valued as a rare, well-preserved commercial building and for its family associations.","period_of_significance":"1910","architect_builder":"Unknown (built by John and Nannie Kilby)","architectural_style":null,"criteria":["B","C"],"status_note":"Described as operating as a hotel with shops, run by the builders' descendants. The owner has recently rewired it, added electric heating and new tile.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:57.993663-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/44/7205/47720544/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/82003460.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82003460/ec9b1149fc-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82003460/ec9b1149fc-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kilby_Hotel_site_in_High_Point.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kilby_Hotel_site_in_High_Point.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720544","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilby_Hotel","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19462764"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/guilford-county/kilby-hotel-82003460/"}