{"nrhp_refnum":"82003509","name":"Livingstone College Historic District (Additional Documentation)","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"W. Monroe St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Salisbury","county":"Rowan County","state":"NC","lat":35.670896379000055,"lon":-80.48379003899998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-05-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture","Religion","Social History","Ethnic Heritage-Black"],"significance_levels":["state","local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district on the campus of Livingstone College and the adjoining West Monroe Street residential area in Salisbury, Rowan County, North Carolina, built mainly between the 1880s and 1930.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district is important for black higher education, as a college founded and operated by a black church, the A.M.E. Zion Church, at a time when most black schools were run by white institutions. It also links the college to nationally known black leaders such as Joseph Charles Price, William Henry Goler and James E. K. Aggrey, and describes the campus and neighborhood as a nearly intact late 19th and early 20th century black college community.","narrative":"Livingstone College and its adjoining residential street occupy a hilltop in Salisbury, North Carolina, where the school moved in 1882 from Concord. The campus is laid out around a wide lawn lined with oaks, with brick buildings spaced apart and Goler Hall at the center. The college was founded by the A.M.E. Zion Church after earlier attempts failed, and it was one of the few black schools in the South established and run by a black church. Its first president, Joseph Charles Price, raised funds in England, and the school grew through teacher training, industrial trades and theological courses. Dodge Hall (1886), Ballard Hall (1887), Carnegie Library (1908), the Hood Building (1910) and Goler Hall (1917) remain from this early period. Modest Victorian homes on West Monroe Street were built for faculty and college leaders, including the Price and Dancy houses. The district is significant for its link to black education and for its surviving campus and housing from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.","period_of_significance":"1850-1899","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Victorian eclectic, primarily of a vaguely classical bent","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Several buildings survive; the document notes that a few homes have been lost since 1930 and the older campus has been ringed with newer construction.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:42.347142-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/4/7221/47722104/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/82003509.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82003509/4e35be846e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82003509/4e35be846e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Ncpappy","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Livingstone_College_from_Monroe_St_Salisbury_NC.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Ncpappy</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:Livingstone_College_from_Monroe_St_Salisbury_NC.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722104","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livingstone_College","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6659715"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/rowan-county/livingstone-college-historic-district-additional-documentation-82003509/"}